DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

The fuel has the potential to replace oil, gas, and coal in a range of applications, from aviation to industrial processes like steelmaking and chemical manufacturing. Current supplies are made by reforming natural gas, which releases greenhouse gasses. electricity still comes from fossil fuels.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 30, 2020

The global economy is currently too big, and too much of it is tied up in things that require fossil fuels and material resources. Nuclear has a better claim to being a bridge fuel (between the current system and a renewable system) than natural gas does. I’m very strongly anti-aviation.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Don’t agree on the assessment or the different pathways to get rid of fossil fuels? This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below. The article was called ‘can the world kick its oil habit?’.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

cities are drafting plans and testing out developing zero emission zones in downtown areas, banning fossil-fuel-burning vehicles and developing progressive pricing signals. Building Back Aviation Sustainably (Workshop): The global pandemic has thrown a wrench into the aviation sector's decarbonization efforts.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That's par for the course — an exciting advancement here, political or economic pushback there. So, too, the reversal of political fortunes in Brazil (Jair Bolsonaro out, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in) and Australia (Scott Morrison out, Anthony Albanese in), where climate deniers were replaced by more action-oriented leaders.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

Aviation soon became a business. With the ‘old’, I refer to the fossil-fuel based, centralized energy industries that are reliant on conservative economic models. They are sometimes referred to as Big Oil , or the Oil and Gas majors the likes of Shell, BP, Total etc. Let me explain. Conservative estimates put direct U.S.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In recent months I’ve apparently taken on a sideline of assessing major total cost of ownership studies from reputable organizations, [continued] The post Another European Energy Study Assumes Unrealistically Cheap Hydrogen & Finds Significant Demand appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The result of all these puts and takes is a lower demand in the end than I'd originally projected for 2100. My original projection was around 90 million tons, now it's slightly under 80 million tons.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This tectonic shift, while it will take decades instead of the seconds of the Christchurch cataclysm, will be more broadly disruptive. We can manage it wisely or foolishly, yet it will still occur.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 8, 2023

As a living document, the strategy is still deeply flawed, but less flawed than the first one. If the DOE updates it every six months, and there's as much movement each time, then by 2025 or 2026 it could be a good strategy.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 23, 2023

We have enough waste biomass feedstock to fulfill all of our transportation needs, and the market and a bunch of bright people will figure out which ones are cheapest and lowest impact.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 25, 2023

Governments shouldn't be rewarding firms that are actually emitting more CO2e just because they are making hydrogen.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 2, 2023

The US will waste a lot of time, money, and energy on bad decarbonizing transportation approaches and end up less competitive as a result.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The primary energy fallacy is the assumption that all of the energy in all of the oil, gas and coal we burn today must be replaced. We don't need to replace it, we need to replace the unwasted energy services.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Biofuels are fit for purpose, and we have a lot more resources for them than the requirements. Arguments against them are mostly specious, biased, or based on very stale data.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It was put in the hands of people who deal with fossil fuels all day long and have a paradigm of burning them for energy, not a paradigm of electricity for energy. The US hydrogen strategy was positioned in the wrong federal department.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Green hydrogen for energy is an economic dead end, not a replacement for fossil fuel revenues, and the sooner Queensland policy makers internalize that, the sooner Queensland will be able to address its economic realities.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 1, 2022

With just the readily available solutions of electrification where viable and increased efficiencies across the board, in addition to the loss of demand from fossil fuels and raw iron ore, global shipping will see about 50% of the emissions in 2100 as it did at peak before COVID-19.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Hydrogen demand today is two-thirds for petroleum refining and fertilizer manufacturing. Both of those uses are going to drop precipitously in the coming decades, and the one area of demand growth won't replace the loss.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Hydrogen demand today is two-thirds for petroleum refining and fertilizer manufacturing. Both of those uses are going to drop precipitously in the coming decades, and the one area of demand growth won't replace the loss.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Chemical process engineer and expert on biofuels and hydrogen Paul Martin and I discuss Michael Liebreich's hydrogen ladder, agreeing and disagreeing in turn with aspects of it. This first half focuses on places hydrogen won't play.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 13, 2021

Much of industry is responding well to the biggest issue of this century, one we've jointly created over the past 300 years. But there is still much work to be done.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 23, 2020

There's a $120 billion global hydrogen industry that we have to kick the fossil fuel companies out of. 3-4% of global petroleum use is for long-haul shipping and aviation. About 8% of CO2e emissions globally are from steelmaking. That's more than enough for CleanTechnica to report on.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The following are the climate change solutions or approaches that I see from my investigations and discussions as gaining consensus and consilience on their viabiilty. It's not the how, but the what.

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