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zoobyshoe said:I'm conceiving of a dedicated hydrogen farm whose sole function is to split water and then sell the hydrogen to utilities as opposed to an afterthought operation tacked onto a solar or wind farm that is designed to feed electrical power directly into the grid. ...
I guess I'm missing why you would want to do this?
If you use PV to split hydrogen, you take that loss, and then take a ~ 50% loss in converting that He back to electricity. So as long as there is demand on the grid (no excess PV), it is better to just feed the grid (inverter losses and some small, local transmission losses, < 10% ?).
Just because it would be used more often? - that sounds like that old joke about losing money on every product sold - "but we make it up on volume!".