The amount of CO2 emitted from hydrogen production is more than the entire emissions of Indonesia and the UK combined. We still don't have such a nascent industry when it comes to electrolysis, so using renewables or clean electricity,. Such as nuclear, taking water and producing hydrogen and oxygen. The goals are net zero by 2050. That's only 27 years away. We have to scale. Many call hydrogen the Swiss Army knife of energy.
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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