|Question 11Verbal

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From steel production to fuel for residential heating, hydrogen has many applications. Currently, producing hydrogen is carbon intensive, but Rebecca R. Beswick is one of many scholars investigating the feasibility of large-scale production of hydrogen through electrolysis, a process that emits no carbon when renewable energy is used. Beswick suggests that although some obstacles may prevent electrolytic hydrogen from dominating energy systems, there is utility in its ability to decarbonize the steel and heating industries, where reducing carbon emissions is especially challenging.
Which statement about the use of hydrogen in the steel and heating industries is most strongly supported by the text?
Development of applications for electrolytic hydrogen is less advanced in these industries than it is in most other carbon-intensive industries.
A
The fact that large-scale electrolytic hydrogen production is not yet available has limited these industries' interest in pursuing hydrogen-based applications.
B
The adoption of electrolytic hydrogen by these industries has been impeded by concerns about how carbon intensive its production is.
C
At least some of electrolytic hydrogen's potential to lessen these industries' carbon emissions is as yet unrealized.
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