The "hydrogen economy" has always struck me as a solution lacking a problem.

That's a sharp way to put it. Marchetti himself veered towards methanol in the later days of his career, when it became clear the Nuclear revolution wouldn't happen. He associated hydrogen to his concept of energy islands, that if realized could be producing huge amounts of energy; hydrogen was just a simple way to get this energy to big cities.

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