By David Fessler Renewable energy sources are rapidly replacing fossil fuels like coal and natural gas. But wind and solar can’t be used as baseload sources.
Both need some form of energy storage. Today, that is being handled by batteries.
Large lithium-ion batteries are seeing rapid deployment. Utilities and homeowners are installing them to solve their storage problems.
But now there’s another unique way to solve renewable energy’s storage problem: hydrogen gas.
Producing and Storing Hydrogen
At first, it might seem like renewable energy and hydrogen aren’t connected – but they are. Let me first show you how hydrogen is produced.
Hydrogen is one of the most abundant …read more
