RE:or hydrogen ? Hey Tcheck, wouldn't that just increase the need for fossil fuels??? Perhaps you should give just a tad more thought to what you're promoting! Even with electrolysis, do you not need as much energy to split hydrogen from oxygen as you're going to get from the other side when you "burn" it? And all that energy comes from where? Hydrocarbons, hydroelectric, solar, wind, nuclear or a dyson sphere... lol (psssst are we not supposed to just talk about NMX here??? cheers bud!)
Because pure hydrogen does not occur naturally on Earth in large quantities, it usually requires a primary energy input to produce on an industrial scale.[8] Hydrogen fuel can be produced from methane or by electrolysis of water.[9] As of 2018, the majority of hydrogen (∼95%) is produced from fossil fuels by steam reforming or partial oxidation of methane and coal gasification with only a small quantity by other routes such as biomass gasification or electrolysis of water.[10][2]
Steam-methane reforming, the current leading technology for producing hydrogen in large quantities,[11] extracts hydrogen from methane. However, this reaction releases fossil carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide into the atmosphere which are greenhouse gases exogenous to the natural carbon cycle, and thus contribute to climate change.[4] In electrolysis, electricity is run through water to separate the hydrogen and oxygen atoms. This method can use wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, fossil fuels, biomass, nuclear, and many other energy sources.[5] Obtaining hydrogen from this process is being studied as a viable way to produce it domestically at a low cost.
Hydrogen fuel is hazardous because of the low ignition energy and high combustion energy of hydrogen, and because it tends to leak easily from tanks.[12] Explosions at hydrogen filling stations have been reported.[13] Hydrogen fuelling stations generally receive deliveries of hydrogen by truck from hydrogen suppliers. An interruption at a hydrogen supply facility can shut down multiple hydrogen fuelling stations.[14]