Re: Nuclear energy and hydrogen production

On Jan 29, 12:51 pm, "Alex Terrell" <alexterr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Advances in battery economics will probably make the whole hydrogen
issue irrelevant, event with thermo chemical processes.

On the contrary, hydrogen is quite valuable for synthetic fuel
production. Run hydrogen with CO or CO2 over the appropriate catalysts
and you get gasoline or diesel fuel.

In other words, which is more likely:
- The cost of batteries will halve and the performance improve by
about 50%; or
- The cost of fuel cells will fall by 90% and the world will rush to
build high temperature nuclear reactors and a hydrogen production and
distribution capability.

Or the cost of natural gas and oil will rise enough that nuclear
hydrogen production will be an attractive way to upgrade fossil fuels.

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