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Separating Hype from Hydrogen – Part Two: The Demand Side - Cleaning Up Audioblog Episode 4

Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

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Hydrogen Is the Only Solution to a Net Zero Energy System

Hydrogen is therefore the only solution that can provide what I call deep resilience to the highly electrified net zero economy of the future. Will the resulting energy system be prohibitively expensive? Let's assume that 80 to 90 percent of power is super cheap wind and solar at 20 dollars per megawatt hour or less. Once you've added some storage and interconnections, perhaps it's 30 dollars per megwatt hour once you've added a network uptime. That's not so far from where most industrialized countries are today not bad for a high performing zero carbon and deeply resilient electrical system. This is the energy system politicians need to explain policy makers need to design regulators need to usher

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