23. "Anything hydrogen can do, electricity can do better." - depends
where your hydrogen is coming from, and where your electricity is coming from.
Sun light to hydrogen seems to be quite a bit more efficient than sun light to electricity to hydrogen.
Electricity from fossil fuels is no good when you're out of fossil fuel (which we will be at some point).
And hydrogen may as of yet be the most efficient way to store electricity. Expensive, sure, but there's good reason why the space shuttle uses fuel cells and not batteries.
I agree that replacing fossil fuels with hydrogen (or anything else for that matter) is a long way of. But it is a viable technology rather than a scam. How far away it is depends on the amount of funding for the research.
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