Can the hydrogen economy be realized using nuclear power generation?
The only large-scale source of carbon free electricity in the foreseeable future comes from nuclear generation. However, a recent Shell study has suggested that conversion from nuclear energy into electricity and via electrolysis to hydrogen or directly from nuclear energy via direct thermo-chemical splitting of water into hydrogen is not an efficient process. Better alternatives for hydrogen production seem to exist by converting fossil fuels into hydrogen and CO and to capture and sequester the CO2 underground.
