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MIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel (news.mit.edu)
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[–] cmysmiaczxotoy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years 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