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Our climate is on the ropes -- if 'blue' hydrogen (ie, fossil hydrogen with carbon capture) is a convenient stopgap, I say we go for it. Sure, it's not renewabl
by lambdatronics 6y ago
Our climate is on the ropes -- if 'blue' hydrogen (ie, fossil hydrogen with carbon capture) is a convenient stopgap, I say we go for it. Sure, it's not renewable, but it also would be carbon-neutral (assuming the carbon is 100% captured). We shouldn't let ideological issues get in the way. So what if fossil fuel companies benefit from it instead of battery companies?
If we were to implement a carbon tax instead of picking winners, 'blue' hydrogen would come out ahead of 'green' hydrogen for at least the next decade, but hydrogen fuel cell vehicles would probably still loose out to batteries for most automotive applications.
- taneq 6y agoIf there were nothing else on the horizon it'd be better than nothing, for sure. And a cap-and-trade carbon tax would work wonders especially if the proceeds were used for market stimulus or something. It's just that we now have practical battery tech so we can jump straight to a battery storage + distributed solar infrastructure for everything and skip wasting an incredible amount of resources rebuilding a giant chunk of our existing infrastructure for only marginal gain.