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I can't read all of the article because paywall, but H2 is a very very bad solution for heating and transport, but could have applications elsewhere. Paul Mart
by cheradenine_uk 5y ago
I can't read all of the article because paywall, but H2 is a very very bad solution for heating and transport, but could have applications elsewhere.
Paul Martin is very good on this subject. Check out https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/distilled-thoughts-hydrogen-paul-martin/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/distilled-thoughts-hydrogen-p... and the associated artcles (paticularly on heating).
Sadly it's likely the Economist Journos have been captured for a nice long lunch by the 'big oil' proponents of blue hydrogen as a "transitional" technology (which, not co-incidentally, keeps them in business and doesn't turn all their pipelines into stranded assets).
- glenvdb 5y agoYou can get around many paywalls with 12ft.io https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/10/09/hydrogens-moment-is-here-at-last https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.economist.com/leaders/20...
- bamboozled 5y agoI don't know if this is constructive but here goes: Petroleum probably wasn't a great application for a lot of applications either, especially considering the by-product is Co2, oil spills etc; However, we've used it for hundreds / thousands of years in many different ways and it's been ok. I don't know how long we're going to wait, but we need to using petroleum tomorrow, and be very very pragmatic about it.