
How Clean is Hydrogen, Actually? With Prof. David Cebon
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The Future of Hydrogen
The hydrogen process is a very inefficient. It means that you need three, four, five times more renewable electricity if you're going to do green hydrogen than if you just electrify in the first place. This has been toyed with for a long time and it particularly came from the nuclear industry in the 60s and 70s. But we don't have that situation now. If you want another kilowatt hour of electricity, you have to have an offshore wind turbine or solar panel or whatever it is. That's why it's much more expensive. Yeah. Because you waste, somebody has to pay for the waste energy. You know, if you're wasting that 70% of energy
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