Green hydrogen is made by using renewable energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. It's three times more expensive in some places of the world than gray hydrogen. Electrolyzers and green hydrogen today are all pretty small, he says. Until we can really get super cheap, super clean electricity, green hydrogen will keep facing that challenge,. We can overcome that with things like policy in the Inflation Reduction Act.
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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