Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33869270-20180703224215/@comment-31295789-20180718122343

SM Racer wrote: I’ve never understood the enthusiasm for hydrogen. It’s not an energy source itself, you have to get energy from somewhere else to make it. It’s just an energy storage material, and it’s a pain in the butt, requiring complex and heavy storage systems either adsorbed or under high pressure. There’s no industrial infrastructure to make or distribute it (unlike electricity). I get that it has no point-of-use pollution, that’s nice, but neither do batteries. I don’t see much future for H2. The future is better batteries. But, as I said earlier, batteries are made from limited resources and have very limited life spans. The car industry recently said they can't keep making them for ever. Some cars can use LPG, a high percentage of petrol stations have a single LPG pump. I'd imagine Hydrogen pumps appearing in a similar fashion, were some cars running on it to be made. As they became more common, more and more H2 pumps would appear. It would eventually flip and some stations would have a single gas pump for old cars.

I figured the H2 would be made by hydrolising water with photovoltaic cells and wind turbines etc. Similar to nitrogen fixing, why not run cars on ammonia? I guess it's this part which is holding it back,

So are battery cars a stop gap till something better we don't know about comes along,  or really hear to stay?