Hydrogen is a hyped-up bandwagon that is unlikely to help with our energy problems.

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  Hydrogen made directly from raw solar power will be the cheapest chemical energy available anywhere by the end of this decade.

  MacKay called hydrogen a hyped-up bandwagon unlikely to help with our energy problems. Handmer says he is 100% confident that hydrogen made straight from raw solar power will be the cheapest chemical energy available anywhere by the end of this decade, and has built a company on it. The disagreement is total, and the mechanism Handmer names — solar cheap enough to run a deliberately inefficient electrolyser — did not exist when MacKay wrote.

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