I remember my own analysis of Hydrogen which was that it was still too fucking expensive and yet
Hydrogen was cost prohibitively expensive except for extremely niche applications for a long time and let's not forget "ohhhh the humanity" was that fucking hydrogen blimp blowing up.
If you think oil is dangerous it's got nothing on Hydrogen, working with it is a real explosive risk which is one of the reasons it's so expensive because it requires elaborate compensatory systems just to render working with it safely, it can't be stored in standard ways, the same way you can in gas canisters, etc. it's a lot more unstable and prone to blowing up. But cost were falling with Hydrogen faster than almost anything else and Japan was pouring a metric fuck ton into trying to make it practical so they might just succeed.
If you think oil is dangerous it's got nothing on Hydrogen, working with it is a real explosive risk which is one of the reasons it's so expensive because it requires elaborate compensatory systems just to render working with it safely, it can't be stored in standard ways, the same way you can in gas canisters, etc. it's a lot more unstable and prone to blowing up. But cost were falling with Hydrogen faster than almost anything else and Japan was pouring a metric fuck ton into trying to make it practical so they might just succeed.
