Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can’t make its operations work here.::The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can’t make its operations work here. All seven of its California stations will close immediately.
“Doesn’t require a battery to work” is a fairly meaningless upside when it does require a fuel cell, a moisture exhaust, and a cannister of compressed, flammable gas.
So much simpler than a brick holding the energy already in the form you need it in that can return it to the parts that need it at several times the efficiency, right?
I genuinely don’t get the arguments that hydrogen is simpler or more universally compatible when it’s very easy to see it isn’t