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“The most dumb thing" for energy storage: Hydrogen

17 Jul 2025

Germany, the United States, the UK, the EU, and many other countries are looking toward hydrogen to be a clean miracle fuel to power the future. It sounds good at first, but hydrogen has a bunch of problems - one of which is that it’s highly inefficient. “The most dumb thing I could possibly imagine for energy storage” Elon Musk called it. I agree.

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