When I first saw this drop I went down so many rabbit holes...so much sauce in this post alone....😉
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I appreciate you making this point. It drives me mad when the government (UK) start talking about "hydrogen boilers" or "hydrogen cars" because, as you say, it is really only a storage media for energy, there is no vast reservoir of hydrogen waiting to be tapped.
Best case scenario is producing it alongside a nuclear power plant, but if its intended for domestic heating you might as well just have resistive panel heaters because there is no advantage to piping hydrogen all over the place, that you made using electricity.
This does NOT use electricity to split the hydrogen. I never said it did. The "storage media for energy" would be in the form of aluminum/acid mixture. We are not storing hydrogen with the method I have described.
am not a chemist, nor do I play one on the internet...
this is the mixture (use caution)
When Aluminum metal reacts with diluted. sulfuric acid, it gives Hydrogen gas and Aluminum sulfate.
Reaction follows: Al + H2SO4 → Al2(SO4)3 + H2
(see more in posts above)
I take your point, but the aluminium is made with electricity so actually this energy cycle is worse than I thought. I suppose you could recycle used aluminium like this thought.
Yes, all we ever used was recycle scrap aluminum. I have wanted to try with a nice piece of pure aluminum.