this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
45 points (95.9% liked)

Science

3187 readers
56 users here now

General discussions about "science" itself

Be sure to also check out these other Fediverse science communities:

https://lemmy.ml/c/science

https://beehaw.org/c/science

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Sal@mander.xyz
fossilesque@mander.xyz
45
MIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel (news.mit.edu)
submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science@mander.xyz
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] cmysmiaczxotoy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Hydrogen is a nightmare to store and requires a lot of energy to compress. If you try to store it in a metal container, it will seap through the metal, turn the metal brittle, and explode it. Storage is the reason we aren't all using it right now