There's a chicken and egg dilemma when it comes to using hydrogen for long haul trucking. Builders want to see fuel distribution first and fuel distributors want to see the vehicles before they start pouring concrete on fueling stations. Climate One host Greg Dalton asked Alan Krupnik how he sees this chicken and egg problem resolving.
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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