Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Most H2 is produced using fossil fuels like natural gas, but can the right methods make that green? The primary issue at the moment is that the vast majority of H2 is made using methods involving fossil fuels, such as natural gas or even coal. Another major barrier is the lack of regulatory clarity and political support.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

climate talks in Egypt demanded European governments halt a “dash” for the continent’s natural gas. At least nine gas deals have been struck so far on the sidelines of the negotiations – known as COP27 – five involving Africa. percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. We cannot be Europe’s gas station.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Hydrogen Map divides clean hydrogen production projects into two categories on the basis of production method: blue denoting steam reforming of natural gas with carbon capture; and green denoting hydrogen produced via electrolysis of zero-carbon energy sources, such as renewables and nuclear. billion in 192 startups.

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy

APRIL 16, 2015

Enough With The Doom And Gloom: Fighting Climate Change Promotes Prosperity The coverage of climate change and the rhetoric around it are wearing me down. On Saturday 18 April, President Obama declared during his weekly address that there is “ no greater threat ” than climate change. “ But we don’t.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

However, Toogood is a chief executive at Johnson Matthey , a FTSE 250 multinational which markets technology that can produce blue hydrogen “from natural gas at scale”. Blue hydrogen has been marketed as a climate-friendly fuel since the production process aims to capture most of the associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. as a global climate solution, with some industry boosters even going so far as to call Canada’s supply of the fossil fuel the “cleanest in the world.” Burning all that gas could release 13.7 Even ostensibly progressive politicians are on board, with B.C.’s

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 3, 2022

Gas as ‘economic and political weapon’. For decades the European gas supply has been dominated by Russia and now nobody is under any illusions – Russia is using this as an economic and political weapon,” said IEA executive director Fatih Birol in a press conference. Climate change.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 15, 2021

This means that, also for the first time ever, every major party in Canada is taking climate change seriously. We hope that political disagreements going forward can now focus on how we do better, rather than on doing less. Include a renewable natural gas mandate that requires 15% of natural gas consumption to be renewable.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A number of the agency’s clients are expected to use their stands in the zone to promote the controversial and widely discredited use of hydrogen for home heating, which is favoured by the industry as it can combine with natural gas, and its existing infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

This “vicious cycle” of pesticide use fueling climate change, and vice versa, is examined in a report published Tuesday by the advocacy group Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA). According to PANNA , the assessment is the first in-depth scientific review of the relationship between pesticides and climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

In a joint letter , the scientists say that they are “consistently faced with a major and needless challenge” of having to correct false information and rebut the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to downplay the severity of climate change. Front Groups, False Solutions, and Promotional PR.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

Pathways is also interested in developing hydrogen, which it calls “clean hydrogen,” although the overwhelming majority of commercially viable hydrogen produced in Canada uses natural gas as both a feeder fuel and primary energy source. Public transit remains “an underfunded climate solution,” Rougeot said.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Research by DeSmog shows that Porter has a track record of publicly casting doubt on established science on human-caused climate change. The BBC regularly covers climate change and the dangers of climate misinformation. She also spoke at a webinar run by GWPF’s campaign arm Net Zero Watch last June.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Ultimately, the challenge faced by California and Germany with high-level penetrations of renewables is one that many federal and local governments must grapple with as they pursue policies in an attempt to mitigate the most dangerous impacts of climate change. and even more so for the myriad targets that have been adopted globally.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Global leaders belly-flopped well short of the pool at a pivotal climate-protection summit, even after the United Nations declared a “code-red” emergency. . And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . And that’s crucial. That’s begun in Cascadia.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

But concrete proposals on how the country could get there are few and far between, with Brexit and (yet) another ele ction dominating the political ag en da. Biogas — with CCUS — can be applied in the power sector, or at smaller industrial scales in place of natural gas. Earlier this year, the U.K. Enter Drax.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

He is extremely active in the areas of cleantech and climate change, and widely-respected in the energy sector. He summarized his critique on Twitter : “We do not have the luxury of consigning technologies to the dustbin because they (or the companies that own them) fail a socio-political purity test.”.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

.” — a passage from “ Cabbage Koora ,” by Sanjana Sekhar The spotlight Nearly 4 in 5 people support doing “whatever it takes” to mitigate climate change, according to a survey published late last year by the firm Potential Energy. “On the other hand, you know, it’s 2024 now. .

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. On Saturday, a newly built jetty is due to welcome the Norwegian-flagged Höegh Esperanza, a 280-metre vessel capable of offloading cargoes of natural gas supercooled into liquid form, then shipped across the ocean in specialised tankers.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures — the target named in the Paris Agreement that would prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. This means that global oil and gas production must decline 3 percent on average every year until 2050. Nature (2021). degrees Celsius (2.7 C scenario.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In his first speech after staging a stunning political comeback at Brazil’s presidential elections, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to halt the Amazon deforestation that surged under outgoing rival Jair Bolsonaro. Climate Denial. In order to succeed, Lula won’t just need to face down farmers, loggers, and miners.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2022

NW Natural, a gas utility based in Oregon, is seeking to raise gas bills on its customers in order to pay for millions in executive bonuses, higher returns to shareholders, and a larger advertising budget. NW Natural ads promote low-cost natural gas, but do not disclose that the utility is seeking rate increases.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 28, 2019

“With Canada warming twice as fast as the rest of the world—triggering an increase in fires and floods—trying to score political points by grandstanding against sound climate policy is not only reckless, it’s deeply dangerous. With several provinces moving backwards on climate change, this will prove critical in the coming years.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. And you’re right. It’s basic science.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

He expects blue hydrogen made from natural gas via steam reforming to meet around 80 percent of the 5 GW target, with HyNet alone planning for 3.5 ’s citizen Climate Assembly , described the announcements as welcome “but not yet a plan.” ” Lord Deben, Chairman of the Climate Change Committee, the U.K.’s

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. But seven years on, researchers, regulators and activists are still arguing about how California’s most famous climate policy has affected its most vulnerable residents — and how to do better.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5C could help avoid the most serious effects of climate change. Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2022

“The world is enriching Vladimir Putin when they buy his oil and gas,” it explained in one to its nearly 400,000 followers. Shouldn’t the world be buying Canadian oil and gas instead?”. Actual climate experts disagree. Ontario and Quebec, according to a recent investigation in Canada’s National Observer.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

From rogue Tory backbenchers to North Sea profits for Putin, in the past year the DeSmog UK team has kept tabs on the people, money and PR machines that work to slow meaningful action on climate change. North Sea Gas Profits Going Direct to the Kremlin. The Dangers of Liquified Natural Gas Lock-In.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It emphasised the need to “recognize the transitional and enabling role of natural gas,” referring to two of the taxonomy’s three categories.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This includes electric vehicle charging stations and hydrogen, propane, and natural gas fueling infrastructure. Generally, the money will be distributed through a grant program run by the Department of Transportation (“DOT”). Within this structure, there is a carve-out for “community grants.” a group of entities described [above].”.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

But politically, power is held by those who control energy. And the explosion of the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022 cut off Europe’s major supply of natural gas sourced from the Russian fossil fuel behemoth. But what’s worth exploring is just how vulnerable this system is to unexpected shocks and external factors.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

There is a widespread political, economic, business, and economic consensus that renewables, energy efficiency, and net zero are a key part of the solution to the UK's challenges this winter and beyond - it should be difficult for the new PM to ignore.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2021

How insurance functions overall in a climate changed future is an open question that policymakers across the United States are now mulling. Solar, climate change and a hardening insurance market. Climate change is expected to sharpen that trend because damages become more likely.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

And all of this must happen without excessively raising customer rates, if it’s to avoid political and customer backlash. That’s the view of Michael Wara, head of Stanford University’s Climate and Energy Policy Program and a member of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Wildfires Blue Ribbon Commission.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Scientists continue to cast doubt on whether carbon capture will ever function at the huge scale required to make a dent in climate change. In a report released in April 2022, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change referenced the communication industry’s role in protecting polluters.

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