Electric Power vs. Green Goals

From MasterResource By Steve Goreham “The green movement calls for a shutdown of coal and gas power plants. At the same time, it demands a switch to electric vehicles, electric…

Can the Government Create a Green Hydrogen Fuel Industry?

…physics and economics strongly oppose the development of a green hydrogen fuel industry. Get ready for a spectacular failure of these government-sponsored efforts.

Germany’s dream of building a fleet of hydrogen-fired power plants is faltering

“If these turbines are only supposed to run when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing, then they will be extremely expensive,” he added.

Aussie Green Hydrogen Project Scrapped, “Not Viable”

Energy of the future? Even a $28.3 million grant from the West Australian Government company was not enough to push the project over the line.

“… Government grants and loans and high diesel prices help make hydrogen competitive …”

I was so wrong – if every business gets a government grant, then everyone can take advantage of subsidised green hydrogen /sarc.

The Idiot’s Answer To Global Warming: Hydrogen

Except for the optics. In the first scenario, you claim you are burning “clean, pure hydrogen.” In the second scenario, you are burning natural gas, just as we have been…

The Guardian Finally Wakes Up to the Climate Friendly Hydrogen Economy Joke

The Guardian grudgingly admitting that, unlike fossil fuels, renewable energy cannot be relied upon to produce affordable hydrogen for the foreseeable future. Now if only they would take that thought…

Aussie PM Joins the Biden Climate Push, Promises Not to Change Anything

OK, he is making one change. Aussie PM Scott Morrison will spend $263 million on carbon capture, and $275 million building coal powered clean hydrogen hubs, which won’t capture carbon,…

Aussie Brown Coal to Clean Hydrogen Plant will Address Carbon Capture “Eventually”

Proponents are celebrating Kawasaki Heavy Industry’s planned construction of a coal to hydrogen plant in Victoria, which is intended to prove the viability of the clean hydrogen supply chain. Just…

The Pure Evil of Hydrogen Hyping

In energy policy, the Australian government is compounding stupidity upon stupidity. Hundreds of millions of dollars are now to be spent on the dead end that is the hydrogen economy.…

Pathway 2045 (5)

Here are links to Part 1 ,  Part 2,   Part 3, and Part 4~ctm This is the fifth of 6 parts of a discussion of SoCalEd’s plan to decarbonize California…

Futurism: The Hydrogen Economy

Guest future-izing by David Middleton The concept of hydrogen fuel cells (FC) has been very promising for many decades. From an infrastructure standpoint, transitioning from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles…

Promising new solar-powered path to hydrogen fuel production

News Release 1-Aug-2019 Lehigh University team are the first to use a single enzyme biomineralization process to create a solar-driven water splitting catalyst that produces hydrogen with the potential to…

Drilling For Hydrogen

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As a result of my post on energy storage entitled Getting Energy From The Energy Store, a few people brought up the idea of replacing…