re: #172 erik_t

Well not sure what you mean by awful. But I have a lot of experience with it, so I’ll chime in my favorite properties. I love using the gas at work, it’s the best possible smelting/casting fuel gas at a gold shop but that’s tangential.

Zero carbon. That alone really jumps out.

Crack water with solar wind or geothermal and you have zero carbon electricity from turbines, stored in batteries or (best for cars) processed as you go. And fuel cells can use other fuels like methane, and naturally sequesters the carbon as a solid.

Now I agree & understand H is (so far) energy intensive to extract, but think how much energy is used getting exotic and or toxic metals from the ground in a car in the form of a high tech battery. Then recycling is a serious challenge. And batteries bring their own fire hazard.

Batteries are getting better. So is H production. A technology race perhaps.

Alagal protein to make H