RE: Heading North Everyday ?27 Sep 2024 12:10
Pat, I've also read similar articles about the demand for vast quantities of Hydrogen not being there.
There's a few issues with hydrogen, but especially the viability of transporting of large quantities and the amount of storage capacity required for it, as it's not very dense like many other fuels.
I think hydrogen will still be pivotal to decarbonisation, but the production may be more localised, rather than from huge industrial plants.
There was a piece on a company in the UK (forgot who it was) who are converting equipment to to hydrogen power, but they'll produce it on site using modular electrolysers. Another option is cracking Ammonia onsite, as it is 8 times denser than H2, so requires a fraction of the storage space and produces H2 on demand. AFC Energy are developing this to be a modular solution, but it is also how the larger marine (cargo) industry will probably go.
Smaller H2 vessels will be fuelled in port, but those traveling thousands of miles (cargo, cruise etc), will likely have onboard fuel cells being delivered hydrogen fuel direct from ammonia, via a cracking process.
All potential - and my opinion form what I've read/researched. All that said, it won't affect PHE, as they're not focusing on H2 anymore.