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> which is 40% clean already in the US Can you define that statement a bit more? What do you mean by clean? If you're going off of the industry terms, that 40
by malfist 5y ago
> which is 40% clean already in the US
Can you define that statement a bit more? What do you mean by clean?
If you're going off of the industry terms, that 40% includes natural gas, and is probably mostly natural gas. Which means cracking natural gas into hydrogen isn't any more or less polluting.
- Robotbeat 5y agoNuclear, wind, hydro, and geothermal (and maybe some biomass) produce about 40% of the electricity in the US. And yeah, if we’re just using grid electricity at the current electricity mix to make hydrogen, we’re not any better off than using steam reforming. That’s a very valid point. But it’s relatively straightforward to decarbonize the grid. Just build more solar, wind, geothermal, and nuclear and keep what we’ve already got running. Retire coal ASAP.