Central Place Theory and the Dominance of Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier
Marchetti, C., 1986 WP-85-73, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria Abstract Central-place theory plays a crucial role in interpreting the spatial organization of human activities. Simply, it states that there is a breakeven between the advantages of concentrating more and more production and processing in one area and the costs of spreading the products further and further away.
The balance between these gains and costs fixes the sizes of production units and their market areas, which finally appear as a roughly hexagonal checker board.
A critical parameter is the “transportability” of the product. Low transportation costs favor large production units and large captive areas. Hydrogen, with its low transportation costs,as a gas or as a liquid (LH2), is ideally suited as an energy vector for very large nuclear or fusion primary energy generators.
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