It’s better to burn gas than transport hydrogen, Rio Tinto says

I never ascribed any personality traits to nature. It’s a chaotic system with no design for me. Not everyone sees it that way and thats fine. Where I wanna get with this is that hydrogen is a pretty nasty molecule. Hard to store, hard to transport, and very dangerous in many ways. All this makes it expensive. But nature has provided a way to polish off all those negative traits. It uses carbon to make hydrogen friendly resulting in methane. We have 60 years of LNG expertise and more than a century of methane expertise. Methane is almost too good to be true – sometimes even I believe there is something greater than designing things this way. 

It’s better to burn gas than transport hydrogen, Rio Tinto says

The mining giant’s chief scientist says it will only “produce hydrogen where we consume it” and has flagged daunting issues around switching to electric trucks.

Australian Financial Review

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