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pfdietz | 9 days ago

It would be moved by pipeline as a compressed gas, not as LH2. The US already has > 1000 miles of H2 pipelines.

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closewith|9 days ago

All between co-located industrial generators and consumers. H2 pipelines are DOA due to the absurd compression costs.

pfdietz|9 days ago

A BTU of hydrogen requires more energy to compress to a given pressure than a BTU of natural gas, but hydrogen also has lower viscosity, so less recompression is needed. The point you raise does not rule out hydrogen pipelines.