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>>56372245

Hydrogen will always have to be turned into something else to make storing and transporting it easier. IMO the most likely candidate is ammonia (NH3). Liquid ammonia has the advantage of no carbon on combustion, and the mass production of this from air and electricity can provide both fuel and fertilizer.

The big issue is cost, but efficiency of synthesizing it can be boosted tremendously by using dedicated facilities built for high-temp electrolysis (around 1000 C). You could build the whole system around a nuclear reactor because many of them can run normally at those temperatures and instead of converting the heat to electricity to do the HTE, you just directly use the heat.

It takes in air and uranium, spits out liquid ammonia, zero carbon involved. I haven't done the math but, if you did this at scale I think it'd be reasonably cheap, mainly because nuclear reactors can make a fuckload of energy for very low cost, when the government isn't trying to strangle them. Pic rel is probably understating things.