Why only hydrogen is regarded as fuel of future and not other elements?

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I have basic idea of working of hydrogen fuel cell but why just hydrogen? Isn’t there any better or maybe cheaper alternative?
(I know it’s bit complex for but I would appreciate your answers)

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Hydrogen is extremely common* and can be produced in gigantic amounts. Hydrogen then can scale, especially if you have a lot of very cheap electricity to work with to ‘crack’ it from water and provide it to compress it. (From, for example, fusion reactors).

It’s sort of a ‘race’ between hydrogen and better battery chemistry to see what will be the energy storage of the future.

*As far as we know most of the universe is hydrogen, by a fairly large margin.

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