Solar Hydrogen: Fuel of the Future

[oldhippie]

19. When I think of industrial processes ...

just off the top of my head I think of heat, heat transfer, and motion. Those things are now pretty well handled at the least cost by fossil fuels making heat and electricity. Yes, both of them could be done using H2 in the process, but at added cost and complexity, so why bother if not mandated by some law?

I don't know much about chemical processes that use pure hydrogen as an input, but I suspect there must be some. Currently hydrogen is most cheaply made by reforming natural gas. You can make it from electrolysis, but why bother if it is less efficient and more expensive? Again, unless there is some law forcing it.

At some price of natural gas electrolysis will be competitive with steam reforming, but I don't know what point that is. And still, nat gas will always be easier to transport than H2. which affects price in different places.

I don't know, just stream of consciousness on my part.