
The Race for Clean Energy Dominance - Ep105: Nobuo Tanaka
Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change
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Is the Hydrogen Pipeline the Only Way?
I have no belief that hydrogen will be used in land transportation, space heating, even industrial heat and certainly bulk power generation. I think Germany is thinking about the hydrogen pipeline as a kind of backdrop or, let's say, the second network after the grid line. But that only makes sense. Pipeline hydrogen can generate heat in the electricity with a stationary fuel cell. And if that technology will suck in, that is the way. Right. So lots of renewables. Japan can do huge amounts of floating offshore wind for sure and probably much more geothermal, but then maybe the hydrogen is needed for long duration storage. When there's no wind, then you have to have something and it doesn't
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