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The Unbearable Lightness of Hydrogen - Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 8:

Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

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LOHCs - The Future of Storage

The goal is to load hydrogen into a chemical or metal carrier, which allows it to be transported at ambient temperatures and pressures. On arrival, the hydrogen is released and the carrier returned to the point of origin. One promising LOHC is benzyl toluene, being marketed as a solution for hydrogen shipping by a company called Hydrogenius. But again, it has a volumetric density problem - one cubic meter can only be loaded with 54 kilos of hydrogen. It means 4 times as many trips for each energy cargo as you would have with LNG.

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