We have working models. The difference is the Chinese can say “make it happen”, and they do it. In the US they say, “Gimme lots of investment capital and how can I profit massively off of this?” so it goes nowhere quick.

Maybe we should call them “AI power dirigibles” and people will put some money into it.

Not necessarily. It's not about the boom factor alone - hydrogen is a small atom, and so under pressure, most commonly used materials are permeable to it. It leaks through every material. It really takes something as solid as steel pipes for hydrogen atoms to not work their way through and escape. So while hydrogen would be cheaper to produce at scale, it's also constantly leaking out of any container.

For wind turbines, static electricity and storms would be huge risks as well, so the application of a floating wind turbine would not be ideal.

Yes, but I think hydrogen likes to go bang 🧨💥

Yeah, that's what the folks who designed the Hindenburg thought as well.

I need someone to explain the joke. Waiting 100,000 years for radioactive decay seems to be a bit boring as a punch line.

I did not know that

Not once we get fusion reactors up and running

Yeah, about that…

Not to mention that the flames while combusing are invisible by sight. It's also really difficult to keep contained and if it leaks it has ~11x the impact of CO2 per this article.

I used to like the idea of hydrogen as an energy medium but all of its attributes combined just make it really infeasible to use except for immediate applications.