Hydrogen is the world's most abundant element - Can it ride to the rescue of the planet by becoming the 'coal of the future'? Hydrogen could create $2.5tn of business and more than 30m jobs by 2050.

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Just listened to a guy talk about future fuel sources mentioning Hydrogen to power a Nuclear Fusion reactor. It would be near zero point energy or something like that. With nuclear waste being Helium.

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Coal is an energy source. Hydrogen is an energy storage system. Producing hydrogen requires more energy than you get from burning it. It might be a useful energy storage system, but it is not the coal of the future.