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So they expect home users to handle liquid potassium or sodium formate? Isn't that quite hazardous?
Well, yes and no. Most likely its adoption would be where petroleum stations start creating it on site and selling like a carbon neutral gasoline. Energy has to come from somewhere, so it will probably take solar power to store as fomate and sell as fuel