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The ‘Big Lie’ of Blue Hydrogen Starts With Ignoring Basic Economics

DeSmogBlog

As the oil and gas industry achieves success in pushing the world towards widespread adoption of methane-based blue hydrogen, some unexpected voices are calling out the industry on its deception of selling blue hydrogen as an affordable and clean source of energy. .

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Ex-Shell Tory MP Defends Oil and Gas Funding for Hydrogen Parliamentary Group

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MANCHESTER – The Conservative chair of a parliamentary group on hydrogen has defended the body’s receipt of £70,000 in funding from fossil fuel giants including Shell and Equinor. Stafford, who is the Conservative MP for Rother Valley, said that his interest in hydrogen directly stems from his time working for Shell. “To

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Will Albania’s huge white hydrogen deposit change the clean energy game?

Hydrogen Fuel News

The world’s largest deposit was discovered at a mine in the Eastern European Country The largest white hydrogen flow ever discovered in the world has been detected in a mine in Albania, as was reported last month by Hydrogen Fuel News.   The gas also contained much smaller amounts of methane and nitrogen.

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'Tipping point'? CNG Fuels eyes surging HGV demand for renewable biomethane

Business Green

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel.

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Cleaning Up After the North Sea Oil Industry Will Cost Billions – But Nobody Wants to Pay

DeSmogBlog

Obsolete oil and gas infrastructure could give its owners a head start in a region rapidly emerging as a basin for wind farms; hydrogen hubs; and plans to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from northern Europe’s smokestacks and bury it under the sea. But it also serves the sector’s long-term commercial interests.

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The 5 Biggest US Utilities Committing to Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

GreenTechMedia

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S. Duke Energy.

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Planes, trains and automobiles: How is Europe's transport sector curbing its emissions?

Business Green

Another option - particularly for heavier vehicles like trucks and buses where batteries are not practical - is hydrogen fuel cells. Most hydrogen is currently produced from natural gas, which is highly polluting, but if renewable energy is used then hydrogen can essentially be made CO2-free.