RE: Interest from Others28 May 2023 17:27
The quest to develop hydrogen as a clean energy source that could curb our reliance on fossil fuels may lead to an unexpected place: coal. A team of Penn State scientists has found that coal may represent a potential way to store hydrogen, much like batteries store energy, addressing a major hurdle in developing a clean energy supply chain.
“We found that coal may be this geological hydrogen battery,” said Shimin Liu, an associate professor of mineral and power engineering at Penn State. "You could inject and store the energy from the hydrogen and have it there when you need to use it."