"Green hydrogen is ready to play a major role in global emissions reductions by 2030." This is a much more aggressive timeline than typically discussed. Are electrolysers the next technology to benefit from learning curves as Wind and Solar have?

The US just granted funding for developing Platinum Electrolysers. With hydrogen adoption accelerating rapidly, it is likely precious metal catalysts will be in heavy use for the first ~decade until less expensive alloys are created and phased in.

Could be why platinum is up 11% in a month.

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"Green hydrogen is ready to play a major role in global emissions reductions by 2030." This is a much more aggressive timeline than typically discussed. Are electrolysers the next technology to benefit from learning curves as Wind and Solar have?

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Could be the boost asteroid mining needs to make it commercially viable. Lots of platinum-group metals up there for the taking, and it offloads quite a toxic extraction process away from Earth.

unless we find a way to drastically reduce the amont of material we need to send outside earth orbit you can.forget wathever mining operation in space, it's far cheaper to mine on earth

that mean produce everything we need outside earth, which is probably impossible this century

or drastically reduce the cost of sending something outside earth orbit, a space elevator? a giant space cannon? (would need something big enough to cover the entire european union from east to west) this also seem impossible this century

The natural gas crisis, be it price/geopolitical or pollution wise, is prompting this. We need cheap fertilizers from green H2 and water desalination.