Hydrogen use is already just marginally better than burning fossil fuels in term of efficiency. Add another 1-2 steps, and it will be completely pointless from the standpoint of reducing emissions. And the renewable energy used to produce the hydrogen would be better spent to feed the grid directly and power electric machines

"One of the key issues making hydrogen less attractive than batteries for EV use is distribution."

The real deal breaker problem w/ using hydrogen as fuel is it is explosive!
Otherwise, hydrogen as fuel was first considered many decades ago but its explosive dangers were quickly noticed!
Except today some people are behaving as absolutely nothing is known about explosive dangers of hydrogen fuel!

Are we seriously thinking there will be never traffic accidents & massive explosions(!), if hydrogen fuel ever becomes widely used?

How much is the separator/compressor and can I install one at my home? There already is a wonderful electric distribution system set up. The motivator behind the hydrogen push seems to be a desperate attempt by non electricity related folks to grab a piece of the automotive profit pie.

Wake up. Hydrogen is just ANOTHER centralised power source that BIG OIL will own. It's a terrible idea for vehicles, as the storage density is comparison is awful:

Liquid hydrogen has a density of 8 MJ/L whereas gasoline has a density of 32 MJ/L

Also, the possiblity of explosion of liquid hydrogen (at incredible pressure) is much greater than for gasoline.

Electric is the way to go. FORGET HYDROGEN. It's a SCAM.

I think this is a really great method of transporting hydrogen. But the question I have is, wouldn't the gas station need to purchase/lease a compressor? My experience with operating a CNG trade van meant I had to locate stations, which all had ready access to NG, with operating compressors. They needed to compress the gas to about 3,000 psi (about the same as a scuba tank) and store it for later dispensing. None of the stations I used could afford the compressor installation and leased them instead. The cost was so high that eventually most discontinued CNG fueling. As fewer and fewer fueling points were available, eventually I had to find another mode of motivation, ie; gasoline.

Wow, that's really clever. I wonder what the overhead cost of mixing and separating adds to the fuel cost. Still, it's got to be cheaper than new dedicated infrastructure.

Did anyone else notice that it said the testing zone would be mainly made up of polyethylene piping? It looks like they are taking into consideration the fact that Hydrogen makes metals brittle and easy to break! This is just another boondoggle that in the end will cost the public money. You don't think those CEOs are going to foot the bill, do you??

Randy

""But electric technology offers a potential solution: installing charge points directly into the electric grid could push it quickly and efficiently out across an entire city, and gas stations could simply replace gas pumps with fast charge points to recharge car batteries. The distribution problem would disappear, enabling car batteries to charge up in home garages all over town.""

So this could refuel 2 H2 cars PER DAY, with a potential increase to 20 cars per day. My guess is most gas stations refuel more cars than that in an HOUR.

For gawd's sake.....just put the renewable electricity into the grid and charge cars, trucks and run home, factories and machinery. Is this just an attempt to preserve gas stations? The wasted energy in this scam is astonishing!!