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A little critical thinking goes a long way.
Yup, go research hydrogen fuel cells, it’s mind blowing how much garbage is published. It’s a failed experiment that needs to be left in 1900’s.
I know that it takes a lot of energy to separate hydrogen from oxygen in water. Without something like nuclear powering the electrolysis, there's no way that it looks remotely feasible to me.
That's just my snap analysis without doing any research beyond what I already know.
See, that's the trick: electrolyzing water to make hydrogen is hard, but cracking methane (CH~4~) to get it is much easier and props up the fossil fuel industry. So there's a lot of vested interest in pushing fuel cells as a green washing scam.
What could be tried is to use night energy as there are less consumers they could add hydrogen plants to stabilise the grid instead of shutting down renewables
Edit: i dont mean that this scales well