While I agree using clean electricity to make hydrogen to power things seems a bad solution compared to batteries there looks to be quite a lot of potential for "white hydrogen" which is basically drilling for naturally occuring hydrogen in the earths crust.
And elsewhere in the crust. It's just people haven't really focused on drilling for it until recently https://archive.ph/RbQwv
It might be a practical solution to use our existing equipment which is basically the same as drilling for natural gas, but with no or at least less CO2.
There seems to be a lot of it eg "huge reserves found in France". Potentially 46 million tonnes in Lorraine, 1 euro a kilo to produce https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/exc...
And elsewhere in the crust. It's just people haven't really focused on drilling for it until recently https://archive.ph/RbQwv
It might be a practical solution to use our existing equipment which is basically the same as drilling for natural gas, but with no or at least less CO2.