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The main reason global markets aren't absorbing the demand is sanction on chinese produced goods. But anyhow it will be interesting to see how the renewable energy boom picks up steam. Jupiter 1 hydrogen gas generator engine is a pretty huge milestone.
https://newatlas.com/energy/worlds-largest-pure-hydrogen-electrical-generator/
at 15kg per kw, this is 300x less efficient than a fuel cell for just electricity output. Distributed fuel cells can use waste heat for domestic hot water needs.
A better use of combusting H2 for electrical power generation, is changing the input valves on electrical generating NG turbines. That is just 2x less efficient than a fuel cell.
Interesting but I'm skeptical that they would develop this if they could simply convert a NG turbine and it would only be 2x less efficient.
It's more like the Jupiter 1 "fuel consumption" for 30mw output can be way overestimated.
More technical description is combustion is 50% as efficient as a fuel cell. It is very significant difference.