In discussions about clean Hydrogen, there is a popular idea floating around, particularly in countries like Germany or Japan that import large parts of their current fossil fuel energy. Instead of importing fossil fuels, the story goes, we will import large quantities of Hydrogen in the future from places where wind and sun are plentiful, and therefore, renewable energy is cheap. The problem with this idea is that Hydrogen is really difficult to transport. 
So people came up with another idea: instead of importing Hydrogen itself, one could ship Ammonia, and convert that back into Hydrogen in facilities called Ammonia Crackers. The problem with that? It makes absolutely no sense. The main use of Hydrogen is the production of Ammonia, and converting one chemical to another just to convert it back merely creates an effective machine to lose useful energy and burn money. This conclusion seems inevitable.
@kkarhan@infosec.space@hanno #Ammonia also seems rather wasteful.
Why not use #Methanol as that can be used with #FuelCells, thus allowing for a clean replacement of #Diesel - #Generators in applications like #EmergencyPower for #Hospitals and other #CriticalInfrastructure?
@kkarhan I think Methanol is rather favorable for many applications, as I've said before. Still: Not as a hydrogen carrier.
