The goal is to bring down the cost of produced hydrogen by 80% to a dollar per kilogram in a decade. One kilogram of hydrogen has about the same energy content as one gallon of gasoline. The electricity that you're using in the electrolysis process is kind of dirty. It doesn't need to be very dirty before this green hydrogen is not all that clean itself.
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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