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Hydrogen is attractive because of formation of only water by combustion. However, no widespread technologies for storage, transportation and combustion of hydrogen. Hydrogen fuel cell car was the potential application of hydrogen fuel. However, the resources are limited, because the electrocatalyst for hydrogen fuel cell car is platinum. The world and car industries advance to electric cars using the secondary energy, electricity without emitting carbon dioxide. The energy efficiency of the electric car is far higher than the hydrogen fuel cell car in which hydrogen is the tertiary energy. Unless effective application is found, hydrogen cannot be the major fuel for direct combustion.
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Hashimoto, K. (2019). Hydrogen as Fuel. In: Global Carbon Dioxide Recycling. SpringerBriefs in Energy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8584-1_13
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