Hydrogen is a storage medium. It's fundamentally different than natural gas. Think of it more like a more complex, expensive, and inefficient battery; with the only advantage being that you can store more energy per unit volume at large scales.

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pfdietz 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Of course. But the point was that it could also be burned in these turbines, and is also storable underground like methane.

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literalAardvark 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The very small molecule makes it much harder to store than methane, and unlike anything else on the planet other than Helium, lost hydrogen is lost forever.

	▲	pfdietz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Hydrogen leaked into the troposphere is quickly oxidized back to water. Only very little makes it to the very upper atmosphere where it can escape. Storage of hydrogen in underground caverns is demonstrated technology.