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Originally Posted by snootchiebootchies
You can produce hydrogen from water through electrolysis. It's not an efficient process but if the source of the electricity is from renewables, it would be a zero carbon emission energy source for heating your home. It's a more likely zero carbon solution than nuclear energy. I doubt there will be a nuclear power plant approved in Canada during my lifetime.
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That's what I meant when I said it wasn't an energy source, it's a battery.
The renewables would be the actual energy source, the hydrogen is just the delivery mechanism.
I think eventually they'll improve batteries enough that hydrogen won't really take off, but maybe it does stick around for things like heating homes.
EDIT: As for nuclear, I think China maybe be the one to lead there since they don't have to worry about the kinds of red tape most other places do, though I remember reading that there was a thorium reactor starting up in the Netherlands recently too.