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I'm curious whether https://proton.energy/ will pan out. They claim to be developing a process to extract hydrogen from natural gas wells, leaving the CO₂ underground. If that's possible, it would basically make hydrogen a fuel.



Possibly.

I do worry about

>Natural gas pipelines can transport large volumes of hydrogen without any hardware changes.

as hydrogen exposure makes metal brittle.

There are other moderately serious problems--hydrogen flame, unlike that of almost any hydrocarbon, is invisible.




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