So what is the point of generating green hydrogen that has to be converted back to electricity to drive things like electric cars, aeroplanes and road trains?
Welcome to Fantasyland! All the plans for green hydrogen at present are hopes and dreams that depend on major technological advances and practically unlimited supplies of very cheap wind and solar power.
It is so sad that that the obsession with reducing CO2 emissions has spread into almost every aspect of modern living when it’s all completely unnecessary, just malinvestment. Only a very big man like Donald Trump can hope to prick this bubble. It’s great that he is saying openly that “climate change” is a hoax: https://x.com/TiceRichard/status/1854591987829154294.
https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/technology/21-9-green-hydrogen
Government decisions to allocate substantial funds to “hydrogen hubs” are based on wishful thinking among green advisors in the bureaucracy.
Grants for developing green hydrogen should be subjected to cost-benefit analysis over short to medium terms.
When all the green hydrogen projects around the world come on stream there will be a glut on the market!
THE REAL COST OF GREEN HYDROGEN
https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/general/21-18-the-cost-of-green-hydrogen
So what is the point of generating green hydrogen that has to be converted back to electricity to drive things like electric cars, aeroplanes and road trains?
Welcome to Fantasyland! All the plans for green hydrogen at present are hopes and dreams that depend on major technological advances and practically unlimited supplies of very cheap wind and solar power.
The nutters of the Scottish government are particularly obsessed with hydrogen. They had a grand plan to export hydrogen to Germany but that has fallen through: https://www.scottishpower.com/news/pages/scottish_german_collaboration_could_unlock_20_billion_green_hydrogen_market_in_the_eu.aspx.
They are developing hydrogen hubs all over the place. Here’s an article on a fairly large trial of a hydrogen production, storage and distribution system on the coast of Fife (no mention of costs): https://www.energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/hydrogen/uk-hydrogen/563936/world-first-domestic-hydrogen-pipeline-network-completed-in-scotland/.
It is so sad that that the obsession with reducing CO2 emissions has spread into almost every aspect of modern living when it’s all completely unnecessary, just malinvestment. Only a very big man like Donald Trump can hope to prick this bubble. It’s great that he is saying openly that “climate change” is a hoax: https://x.com/TiceRichard/status/1854591987829154294.