Case Against the Hydrogen Economy: 4X More Expensive Than Electron Economy

There’s a lot of hype over the “hydrogen economy”, and billions have been spent pursuing it. However, it turns out that converting energy into electricity to electrolyze water to make hydrogen just to convert the hydrogen back to electricity using a fuel cell is four times as expensive as simply using batteries; the laws of physics set the limits.

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