(03-28-2022, 02:53 AM)Mav date Wrote:Green hydrogen is therefore on track to be competitive with coal-fired hydrogen production by 2025 with costs of under $2 per kilo.All the expert commentators seem to wilfully ignore the R&D going at the moment to convert coal and other fossil fuels by catalysis to liquified hydrogen, so they make the argument based on conventional electrolysis.
But these experts, if they are experts and not renewable lobbyists, also know the R&D going on at Newcastle Uni related to catalytic conversion of liquified brown coal to clean hydrogen via a catalysis reactor that is designed to run off solar thermal. Basically it's getting to the point of upscaled trials. This by the way is not new, it's been in R&D since the early 2000s.
It's also a process that like a desalination plant is a very serious option for complimentary installation with nuclear. Nuclear / Hydrogen Refinery or Nuclear / Desalination Plant, this type of configuration is the preferred option for nuclear to operate at peak efficiency.
Know a state in a drought riddled country with a expensive to operate desalination plant or a state with an aluminium refinery that has had operations derailed due to high energy costs, either needing cheap base load power to be viable?
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