DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

A hydrogen industry lobby group has produced a comic book aimed at high schoolers that suggests solar and wind power are incapable of fueling decarbonization goals, and that only hydrogen fuel cells provide sufficient energy to eliminate fossil fuels. at which point Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bot enters the battle to save the day.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a remarkable testament to the power of innovation, collaboration, and strategic investment, the United States has made a monumental leap from 10th to 2nd place in the Hydrogen Progress Index in just two years, positioning itself as a global leader in the hydrogen industry.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Green Hydrogen is the trendiest clean energy source around, touted for its ‘simple’ ability to turn water into a highly combustible energy source capable of replacing our demand for oil and gas. However, the costs of green hydrogen are significant and unviable from a commercial perspective, at this point in time.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Bloom Energy reported record fourth-quarter and annual revenue on Wednesday and upped its target to reach profitability to 2021, a year ahead of schedule. Bloom announced its first fuel cells that can run on hydrogen in June 2019. From hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers to biogas and carbon capture.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A coalition of environmental and social justice organizations have filed a petition with state regulators to halt a hydrogen project by Oregon’s largest gas utility, alleging that the project poses health, safety, environmental dangers to residents already living with polluting industries. Hydrogen comes from various sources.

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Grist

AUGUST 13, 2021

The $1 trillion infrastructure package, which passed with bipartisan support on Tuesday , includes $8 billion to develop “clean hydrogen” via the creation of four new regional hubs. Blue hydrogen involves splitting gas into hydrogen and carbon dioxide, and then capturing and storing the CO2 to ensure it doesn’t heat the planet.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Today, I want to discuss the role of hydrogen as a way of improving ESG metrics. The Role of Hydrogen. Hydrogen is increasingly being viewed as an important tool for reducing carbon emissions, because the use of hydrogen for energy generates no direct carbon dioxide emissions. Not All Hydrogen is Created Equally.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 20, 2022

Hydrogen and carbon capture are both critical technologies in the fight against climate change and the road to economy-wide decarbonization. Osmoses closed $3M in pre-seed funding in November 2021. The post Osmoses Enables Hydrogen Separation, Carbon Capture, and More with Molecular Filtration appeared first on Greentown Labs.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

As global efforts to ramp up the hydrogen industry gain support with big government subsidies, new research casts increasing doubt on the climate credentials of the main recipient of that support, so-called “blue” hydrogen, which is extracted from natural gas and paired with carbon capture technology. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Countries are slowly diversifying their energy portfolio by including hydrogen in their future roadmap towards a low carbon economy. Today, several global trends and activities distinguish the renewed focus on hydrogen from what has been observed in the past. International certification scheme for hydrogen.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:00. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Green hydrogen. The perennial "fuel of tomorrow," it has long tantalized experts, who envision that excess renewable power can be used to create hydrogen, which can be plugged into applications as easily as natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2022

Hydrogen is the future of net-zero — at least that is what the governments of Australia , the Netherlands , Canada , and the European Union believe. Nevertheless, examples of the energy industry’s overly optimistic hype on hydrogen abound. The Alberta government also declared the week of the conference “Hydrogen Week.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

Over €8 billion is being invested in hydrogen and “renewable gas” projects in southern Europe using EU Covid-19 recovery funds, thanks to extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, a new report has found. . Hydrogen Placed ‘at the Centre’ of the Recovery. This is almost 50 percent more than the €1.1

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

New research predicts that green hydrogen — a clean fuel produced from water using renewables — will be comparable in cost and likely cheaper than blue hydrogen by 2030. CCS is carbon capture and storage.).

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

4, 2021, the second annual Climatetech Summit—and celebration of Greentown’s 10-year anniversary —was a day of collaboration, celebration, and of course, climatetech! The conversation touched on hydrogen and other examples of these solutions that are tough to commercialize yet critical to climate action.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2021

UK government urged to avoid backing blue hydrogen after US study finds its production could be worse for climate than natural gas. It concludes that "there really is no role for blue hydrogen in a carbon-free future". Even if true though, the use of blue hydrogen appears difficult to justify on climate grounds.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

A flurry of funding rounds have underscored how many big corporates are keen to turbocharge the fledgling hydrogen market. Its pitch: the approach uses 80 per cent less electricity than electrolysis, another "clean" hydrogen approach. Electrolyser technology can generate large amounts of hydrogen cheaply. Molloy agrees. "We

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Hydrogen has shot up the European legislative agenda in recent years, with politicians of all stripes touting its potential to help countries meet their climate goals. The fuel comes in a variety of “colours”, depending on how it is produced, with almost all hydrogen currently created using fossil gas and termed “grey”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As 2021 comes to a close, we look back on a year that was full of climate chaos, relentless oil industry propaganda, and frustrating progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But 2021 also saw a significant number of victories against the expansion of the fossil fuel industry in the U.S. Credit: New Jersey LCV (CC BY 2.0).

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2021

Proposal reportedly mooted for inclusion in Hydrogen Strategy, but campaigners warn low carbon hydrogen should be earmarked for decarbonising heavy industry rather than domestic heating. Proponents argue shifting the UK's methane gas grid to run on hydrogen can help the UK hit net zero targets by using existing infrastructure.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This is the final article in a series that examines Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) programs in the oil industry, with an emphasis on how some companies are using hydrogen to improve their metrics. How Blue Hydrogen Can Help Decarbonize The Econom y. Addressing Blue Hydrogen Feedback. Hydrogen in Midstream.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A new report argues replacing the gas grid with hydrogen is unrealistic for many buildings in the short term, but net zero heating has few easy solutions. It also announced plans for 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity and systems capable of capturing 10 million tonnes of CO2 by the end of the decade.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

However, as countries seek to decarbonise their economies, ammonia, produced by green hydrogen, offers a carbon-free alternative to fossil fuels, and the accurate measurement of emissions is an essential component of any engine development program.”. MJ/L) than liquid hydrogen (8.5 Background.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

Following a 10-year analysis of the scale of methane leakage at almost 1,000 AD plants across the UK and Europe, Tim Elsome, General Manager of biogas specialists FM BioEnergy, outlines why now is the ideal time to tackle unidentified biogas leaks – and how to protect your plant, profits and the planet. The risks of doing nothing.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

A new project exploring how hydrogen gas could be used to heat homes and deliver green energy will start performing tests from 2022, National Grid announced today. Costing £10m, the testing project will be delivered by DNV GL in partnership with Durham University and the University of Edinburgh.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

The message emerging from the UK's May 2021 local election manifestos is 'we want hydrogen - let's get going', writes Beyond2050's Rob Dale. This marks the beginning of a new stage in the UK's emerging hydrogen policy landscape. This marks the beginning of a new stage in the UK's emerging hydrogen policy landscape.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing company, is proposing to build a $4.5 billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. John the Baptist Parish, two days after the storm hit in September 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 30, 2021

Bp has committed to be 40% invested in renewables by 2030, and are studying plans for a large blue hydrogen plant at Teesside in the UK. By 2021, Shell in Germany will provide 10 MW of green hydrogen. A less direct way to reduce GHG is by cleaning up methane leaks from wells, pipelines, and processing facilities.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

The battle for dominance of the emerging green heating market continued to intensify last week, as businesses await the government's long-promised strategies for building a UK hydrogen industry and decarbonising homes and buildings, both of which are expected to land this summer.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

Changing the way we produce and use nitrogen fertiliser would make a significant difference to these headline-grabbing figures, and this is to be discussed at the Agri-TechE event “Putting the N in FarmiNg” on 24th March 2021. N2O and methane are also produced from the decomposition of animal manures under low oxygen conditions.

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Charged

MAY 30, 2023

anything other than diesel-only) from August 2021 to December 2025, and half of these need to have zero-emission powertrains. Hybrid vehicles are playing a strong role in Europe’s largest countries, and an unfortunate amount of investment is going to methane gas engines, especially in France, Spain and Italy.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. Today, more than 95 per cent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Surging gas prices in the wake of Russia's invasion have made hydrogen and ammonia produced using renewables increasingly competitive, study finds. This has opened the door for green hydrogen and ammonia produced from renewable electricity to compete with unabated natural gas-based processes," the report states.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Summary - Over 20% of all Dutch emissions are coming from the Port of Rotterdam, of which the production of grey hydrogen from fossil feedstock is one of the main culprits. This article explores what is needed to build such a green hydrogen refinery. Waterstof - Hydrogen in Rotterdam. Download Hydrogen Cost Tool.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Summary - Over 20% of all Dutch emissions are coming from the Port of Rotterdam, of which the production of grey hydrogen from fossil feedstock is one of the main culprits. This explores what is needed to build a green hydrogen refinery. About 400,000 metric tonnes of grey hydrogen is used each year in Rotterdam.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Methane: Leaders emerge as the global community wakes up to the challenge. This was the year that the international community woke up to the magnitude of the methane challenge and opportunity – a vital first step in the energy transition. With urgency building in Glasgow, we revisit the metrics here.

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