This week, we look at hydrogen's role in a decarbonizing present and future. Dr. Sunita Satya-Paul is the Director for the U.S. Department of Energy's Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Technologies Office. Alan Krupnik is a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future and an expert on the oil and gas sector. We'll also talk about new federal incentives to get more clean hydrogen into the economy.
Not long ago, it was said that “hydrogen is the fuel of the future - and always will be.” Now, with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law tagging $9.5 billion for developing a domestic hydrogen economy, this simplest of all elements is increasingly being discussed as a viable pathway for long-distance trucking, shipping, and hard-to-decarbonize industries like cement and steel. But how clean is clean hydrogen, really? And what will it take to make green hydrogen a cost-competitive option in applications like manufacturing, transportation, and grid-scale energy storage?
Guests:
Julio Friedmann, Chief Scientist, Carbon Direct
Sunita Satyapal, Director, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, DOE
Alan Krupnick, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
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