It's interesting to see people resorting to unfounded personal...

It's interesting to see people resorting to unfounded personal attacks yet again rather than engaging on the technical discussion points.

Green hydrogen has no hope of being commercialized, so people spruiking it are actively harming environmental efforts. Every dollar invested into green hydrogen is a dollar diverted from renewables technologies which are actually viable, like wind and solar.

In any case, putting aside the fact that it caught fire, the Suiso Fronteir illustrates the folley of trying to transport renewable energy via hydrogen. The ship can transport 75 tonnes of hydrogen, an equivalent energy of about 220 tonnes of diesel. By contrast, a typical VLCC tanker can carry about 260,000 tonnes of petroleum product, ie over 4 orders of magnitude more. Suiso Fronteir literally can not hold enough energy in hydrogen form to power even its own propulsion for an intercontinental voyage, let alone delivering energy at a viable price.

The volumetric energy density of hydrogen is simply too low for it to be a viable solution to the climate crisis.