<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 12:46 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">A ton of coal ($20 at the mine mouth) makes .4 tons of hydrogen and<br>
releases no CO2. Is there a market for $50/ton hydrogen?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Probably not. The cost of hydrogen varies by source, but generally it's less than $10/ton already and there are efforts to drive it toward $1/ton.</div><div><br></div><div>(Also note that the $50/ton price assumes no charge for conversion. Even if the energy were free, there are other costs involved.)</div></div></div>