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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why some of the 'clean' hydrogen hubs in the U.S. plan to use natural gas, a fossil fuel [View all]
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Why some of the clean hydrogen hubs in the U.S. plan to use natural gas, a fossil fuel
PUBLISHED TUE, OCT 31 2023 9:00 AM EDT | UPDATED 19 MIN AGO
Catherine Clifford
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President Joe Biden recently approved seven regional hydrogen hubs to receive $7 billion in federal funding intended to spur the development of clean hydrogen in the United States. Hydrogen, if produced in a way that does not generate copious greenhouse gas emissions, could be a critical tool to decarbonize some particularly challenging segments of the economy like heavy shipping.
Clean hydrogen is the Swiss Army Knife of zero-carbon solutions because it can do just about everything: Powering trucks, buses, and airplanes Heating homes and fertilizing crops Revolutionizing shipping And cleaning up Americas manufacturing industry, Jennifer Granholm, head of the U.S. Department of the Energy, said when she announced the selection of the hubs earlier in October.
Of the seven hubs, two plan to use renewable energy exclusively. The others will use a combination of renewables, nuclear power, and natural gas with carbon capture and storage. ... Putting federal money behind a program to fight climate change while using natural gas, a fossil fuel, as one of its main ingredients may not seem intuitive.
Making hydrogen from natural gas with carbon capture called blue hydrogen in the industry is not necessarily a climate boondoggle, but the only way its positive for the climate is with careful execution and ultra-rigorous oversight from the federal government.
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Why some of the clean hydrogen hubs in the U.S. plan to use natural gas, a fossil fuel
PUBLISHED TUE, OCT 31 2023 9:00 AM EDT | UPDATED 19 MIN AGO
Catherine Clifford
@IN/CATCLIFFORD/
@CATCLIFFORD
KEY POINTS
Of the seven hydrogen hubs announced earlier in October, two plan to use exclusively renewable energy and the other five will use a combination of renewables, nuclear power, and natural gas with carbon capture and storage.
Making hydrogen from natural gas is not necessarily a climate boondoggle, but the only way its positive for the climate is with careful execution and ultra-rigorous oversight from the federal government.
It is possible to make low-carbon hydrogen from natural gas, but right now this kind of blue hydrogen is made at very small scale in the United States.
President Joe Biden recently approved seven regional hydrogen hubs to receive $7 billion in federal funding intended to spur the development of clean hydrogen in the United States. Hydrogen, if produced in a way that does not generate copious greenhouse gas emissions, could be a critical tool to decarbonize some particularly challenging segments of the economy like heavy shipping.
Clean hydrogen is the Swiss Army Knife of zero-carbon solutions because it can do just about everything: Powering trucks, buses, and airplanes Heating homes and fertilizing crops Revolutionizing shipping And cleaning up Americas manufacturing industry, Jennifer Granholm, head of the U.S. Department of the Energy, said when she announced the selection of the hubs earlier in October.
Of the seven hubs, two plan to use renewable energy exclusively. The others will use a combination of renewables, nuclear power, and natural gas with carbon capture and storage. ... Putting federal money behind a program to fight climate change while using natural gas, a fossil fuel, as one of its main ingredients may not seem intuitive.
Making hydrogen from natural gas with carbon capture called blue hydrogen in the industry is not necessarily a climate boondoggle, but the only way its positive for the climate is with careful execution and ultra-rigorous oversight from the federal government.
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mahatmakanejeeves
Oct 2023
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Hydrogen takes more energy to make than it provides. Hydrogen is not a solution. Too much storage & leakage risk
ancianita
Oct 2023
#1
Crap, I'm so sorry. I meant "modular." I brought it up a couple of years ago in a climate series I posted here.
ancianita
Oct 2023
#5
Thanks for your post. No, I don't have complete exposure to all the current energy orgs out there, or the RMI.
ancianita
Oct 2023
#9