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EU bets on clean hydrogen to decarbonize and boost economy

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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN

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It is fabulously inefficient to produce hydrogen using electricity from water :) . You'd be much better by directly charging batteries... Besides hydrogen fuel cells have a much lower efficiency than batteries themselves.

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@sf2k where do you think the electricity comes from? And batteries have extra layer of toxicity when they run out of juice

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Hydrogen can be refilled in a few minutes unlike recharging batteries.

Use nuclear and solar to store excess energy as H2 for portable and cloudy uses.

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As a technology you're better off with electricity and batteries. Hydrogen just means propping up the gas industry and gas industry playas.

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As a technology you're better off with electricity and batteries.

I think the idea is to produce electricity from hydrogen via fuel cells (the article isn't clear). There may be a debate about whether fuel cells or batteries are better. There is probably a place for both.

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