Hydrogen Storage

Hydrogen is a material that can be generated relatively easily, reacted with oxygen to produce work, and is an energy currency that can be decoupled from fossil fuels. In the energy system, the production of hydrogen is usually separated from its utilisation in power production by time and space. The bridge between these processes is a means of storing hydrogen, and it is storage that is the Achilles heel of hydrogen. We believe that there is no single preferred way to store hydrogen. Instead, energy services will have systemic characteristics leading to particular storage technologies. This may mean different storage modes make sense for different points in the chain connecting a hydrogen service to a single source. Currently the focus is on liquid hydrogen, metal hydrides, and compressed cryogenic storage (cryofuel).