@Hypx@mastodon.social thing is, I don't need to make a gas tight seal on my cables. Hydrogen is notorious for it leaking out of everything you put it in. But even ignoring that.

If I have 1Gw of electricity generation in point a, and I can transmit that as HVDC with ~3% loss. Or I can convert it to hydrogen at 70-80% efficiency. Even before I've started trying to pipe the gas. I've lost 20% of the energy. It's 17% down on HVDC, and it's not even started the journey yet.