Aberdeen hydrogen bus fleet sold for just 6% of original public investment

Last year, I reported how all of these buses had been mothballed because of a lack of hydrogen supply in Aberdeen. Presumably the eco-nutters thought it came out of thin…

Hydrogen: Not Market Ready

Recent setbacks with the above in-process projects all but ensure that the original goal of 76 “green” hydrogen projects, part of the Biden-era goal of Net Zero by 2050, will…

Australia’s Green Hydrogen Dream Collapses

$52 million of wasted taxpayer’s money which could have been used to improve hospitals or roads.

Hydrogen plane pioneer seeks lifeline funding

If it was at all feasible, aircraft manufacturers and the likes of Rolls Royce would be gobbling up the technology.

Alice in Hydrogen Land

As we have already found out, storing and transporting Hydrogen is extremely difficult, requiring much higher specifications than storing or moving Oxygen or Nitrogen. The costs of installing a Hydrogen…

90% Subsidized… Bielefeld Germany’s €7 Million Hydrogen Garbage Truck Fleet Sits Idle

The case of Bielefeld’s idle garbage truck fleet is an example of bureaucracy’s rank inability to operate a society, serving as a reminder that “green” technology is a costly folly.

The Hydrogen Highway Ends in a Traffic Jam

Is there fuel available—and how long will it take to get it?

EDP is ‘seriously considering’ rejecting European Hydrogen Bank subsidy due to lack of visibility on demand

Worse still, for these investors, is the risk that future governments will abolish Net Zero completely, or at the very least keep carbon taxes low. In that event, their business…

BP Abandon Teesside Hydrogen Plant

It cannot work without massive subsidies and I suspect BP have seen the writing on the wall. With interest in Net Zero dwindling and the public beginning to wake up…

South Africa Embraces Green Hydrogen Exports as the Solution to their Economic Woes

Perhaps they should take it slow with this “opportunity”.

£2 Billion UK Hydrogen Plant Cancelled

So in this upside down world of Net Zero, we make hydrogen from natural gas, emitting lots of CO2, then combine it with nitrogen in another energy intensive process to…

Claim: Government Mandates can Help Australia to Seize Renewable Energy Export Opportunities

If it is a profitable opportunity, why is government intervention required to make it happen?

Brink Of Extinction – More And More Companies Rejecting Costly Hydrogen Technology

Once considered a key technology in the green energy transition, companies are waking up and finding out that hydrogen isn’t the answer to the challenges posed by renewable energies such…

Airbus’s Hydrogen Fantasy Crash Lands

It shows, once again, that green policies too often chase headlines, not hard science, engineering, or econonmics.

Kill Them All – Stop Wasting Our Money on Green Pipe Dreams

“Every time you involve hydrogen, you get not small losses, but large, substantial losses,” an energy specialist tells us. “The main cause of the issue is that hydrogen is a…

Green Hydrogen to Increase Gas Bills

We already have the highest electricity prices in the developed world and UK and European gas prices are many times higher than those in the US and Canada. We simply cannot afford…

The Myth of a Hydrogen Economy

“Scientists, engineers, and policymakers must reject symbolic solutions and focus on measurable, scalable, and scientifically robust strategies. Not all gases are equally dangerous, and not all solutions are equally wise.”

The Uranium – Hydrogen – Carbon Energy System of the Future

In summary, we will be going to Net Zero whether we like it or not. Because one day we will run out of coal and oil and all the other…

Energy Fantasy Versus Reality In Woke-Land — Part III

Meanwhile, there is at least some reason to think that JPM at the highest levels has finally started to see reality and re-think its green energy commitments. Just in January,…

BP Scraps Major Hydrogen Plans for Teeside

BP’s announcement that it had dropped plans for a “green” hydrogen plant has been described as “bitterly disappointing”.