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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
It's the energy transition thread, so it's relevant. I agree there's a potential market but it'll be insanely expensive no matter what you do. Some countries may have no choice to get some, but I think it'll be a small market.
You hit the nail on the head with worrying about current fertilizer supply. No matter the scale or learning curve, it'll be difficult to replace the current fossil fuel based hydrogen/Ammonia feedstock for fertilizer and creating more competition for that will make it tougher, not easier.
The best way I've seen it put is that hydrogen is not a climate solution, it's a climate problem we still have to solve.
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Great point on the market being limited, but still probably worth chasing. I think the more time I spend looking at transition the more I realize it’s an and type of scenario. We will need x and y and z and a and B and c, etc. Fossil fuels were almost the perfect product, except for that pesky co2. The replacements will be geography and climate dependent and employed in different ways.
Unfortunately the next best thing, nuclear is off the table almost everywhere. It could solve a lot of the gap if the Will was there,