I’m flabbergasted that so many people don’t get these facts.
There are many segments of industry that are heavily dependent on a supply of hydrogen – a couple large segments are plastics and fertilizer. This industrial hydrogen segment is huge and is a major contributor of greenhouse gases.
Hundreds of millions of people depend on food that can’t be grown without fertilizer. We also are dependent on plastics for a large segment of our lives – it’s all around us.
The hydrogen being used in industry is mostly gray or brown hydrogen, made from fossil fuels such as methane AKA natural gas.
The world *must* decarbonize this hydrogen and end the release of CO2 caused by the manufacture of gray or brown hydrogen.
A great solution is to make green hydrogen by electrolyzing water with green electricity from renewables such as wind and solar.
In order to have enough electric power for 24/7 supply, there needs to be 3 to 6 times the nameplate capacity of renewables, plus energy storage to time shift the electric power from daytime to nighttime. There also needs to be seasonal energy storage – excess energy in summer needs to be stored for use in winter.
Studies show that the amount of Battery lenergy storage to accomplish the above would have to be exceedingly expensive. Therefore experts have proposed using green hydrogen stored in underground caverns just as a large amount of methane is now stored underground.
The article talked about Germany going to green hydrogen. But they’re not the only country. The US has a similar plan, link below.
Dave (JHAT) and others have expressed strong opposition to this green hydrogen future, and I would like to see an explanation why. The whole world *must* decarbonize the huge amounts of gray and brown hydrogen already being used by industry. These opposers cannot just turn their backs on this huge CO2 producing industry – it’s not going away!! It must be confronted and dealt with if we are going to end our production of greenhouse gases and stop global warming.
Here’s the link to the US hydrogen plan.
https://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/library/roadmaps-vision/clean-hydrogen-strategy-roadmap
I’m flabbergasted that so many people don’t get these facts.
There are many segments of industry that are heavily dependent on a supply of hydrogen – a couple large segments are plastics and fertilizer. This industrial hydrogen segment is huge and is a major contributor of greenhouse gases.
Hundreds of millions of people depend on food that can’t be grown without fertilizer. We also are dependent on plastics for a large segment of our lives – it’s all around us.
The hydrogen being used in industry is mostly gray or brown hydrogen, made from fossil fuels such as methane AKA natural gas.
The world *must* decarbonize this hydrogen and end the release of CO2 caused by the manufacture of gray or brown hydrogen.
A great solution is to make green hydrogen by electrolyzing water with green electricity from renewables such as wind and solar.
In order to have enough electric power for 24/7 supply, there needs to be 3 to 6 times the nameplate capacity of renewables, plus energy storage to time shift the electric power from daytime to nighttime. There also needs to be seasonal energy storage – excess energy in summer needs to be stored for use in winter.
Studies show that the amount of Battery lenergy storage to accomplish the above would have to be exceedingly expensive. Therefore experts have proposed using green hydrogen stored in underground caverns just as a large amount of methane is now stored underground.
The article talked about Germany going to green hydrogen. But they’re not the only country. The US has a similar plan, link below.
Dave (JHAT) and others have expressed strong opposition to this green hydrogen future, and I would like to see an explanation why. The whole world *must* decarbonize the huge amounts of gray and brown hydrogen already being used by industry. These opposers cannot just turn their backs on this huge CO2 producing industry – it’s not going away!! It must be confronted and dealt with if we are going to end our production of greenhouse gases and stop global warming.
Here’s the link to the US hydrogen plan.
https://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/library/roadmaps-vision/clean-hydrogen-strategy-roadmap
