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How to Produce Electricity From Hydrogen Gas

You can blend hydrogen with the gas that many people already are burning in their home hot water heaters or furnaces, to create a r carbon version. This is kind of like how currently ethanal is blended with gasoline and used in car gas tanks to day. We could also burn hydrogen instead of fossil fuels for industrial processes like making steel, where you need a lot of consistent and reliable heat. Unlike fossil fuels, it doesn't release c o two when burned. And there's potentially another important use of hydrogen. Hydrogen, just like some other energy resources, could be stored for long time. But at the moment we do not have a good solution to store the electricity.

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