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Advantages:

  • Emits only water vapour, assuming there is no leakage of hydrogen gas
  • It can store up to 3x as much energy as conventional natural gas.

Disadvantages:

  • Leakage of H gas (see above) will have detrimental impacts on the stratosphere (California Institute of Technology)
  • Production of hydrogen gas currently relies on natural gas and electrolysis and to replace all the vehicles would require 10x as much as currently is used
  • Storage is really tough because hydrogen is such a low density gas
  • Distribution and infrastructure needs to be refurbished to cope with hydrogen, which can metals by making them brittle
  • Use in fuel cells requires catalysts, which usually require a component metal (most often platinum). Platinum is extremely rare, expensive and environmentally unsound to produce.
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