I didn’t say you couldn’t do it just not as well.
Natural gas compresses to a much more energy dense state making useful ammount much easier to store and goes through metal pipes without causing metal to become brittle.
Hydrogen in general is produced where it is used.
If you are looking at using biomass as a gassified fuel, it makes more sense to make methane, propane or butane.
Depends on the efficiency of the production process. I doubt that any gasifier reaches the levels of efficiency they quote (though those are likely to go down as the process is scaled up).
"Hydrogen in general is produced where it is used."
Gee, you need to tell Air Products that, they might want to switch from the thousands of cylinders of hydrogen they ship out on a daily basis. In METAL TANKS, no less. Gosh, I wonder why those tanks haven't "gone all brittle" and "lost their hydrogen", since the problems with hydrogen storage are so severe. Excuse the sarcasm, but I get really tired of seeing that bullshit trotted out on every thread about hydrogen. I'll say this one more time---at room temperature, these things are NOT A SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM. At elevated temps, yes, but at ambient temps, the rates are so low that any significant effect would take decades, if not centuries, to show up.
>>and goes through metal pipes without causing metal to become brittle.
The gross ignorance of hydrogen embrittlement of steel is rampant. Even here at Free Republic, but especially so in the MSM.