News & Articles on Hydrogen
Hydrogen is not a renewable resource. It is an energy carrier. As such, I don’t normally write about hydrogen. However, others do and I’ve chosen to add this page to highlight the articles on hydrogen I think are important. For many years hydrogen has been seen as a panacea by those who are not energy aware, and those who use hydrogen as a cover for continuing to burn fossil fuels. It is very inefficient to convert electricity to hydrogen and then to convert the hydrogen back into electricity. It’s much more efficient to use electricity directly to power an electric vehicle than to convert electricity to hydrogen and back again in a fuel cell. Hydrogen is only useful in the energy transition if it is created by renewable energy such as by wind or solar and used for purposes that require it. Nearly all hydrogen produced in 2024 was made from fossil fuels. Thus, it makes no sense to burn fossil fuels to make hydrogen and then use hydrogen to drive a car for example.
Adventures In Failed Technology: Small Modular Reactors & Hydrogen Buses
By
Michael Barnard
Small modular nuclear reactor and hydrogen for energy proposals and trials are all zombie proposals sucking time, effort, and willpower away from the necessary decarbonization of our economy. This little roundup is just an appetizer course for the absurd feast of riches to come with canceled projects and crashing dreams.
IKEA Follows In The Footsteps Of Organizations Abandoning Hydrogen For Energy
By
Michael Barnard
IKEA will figure it out, just as everyone who goes down this pathway does. It’s remarkable that people keep making the mistake when it’s so obviously a mistake with tiny amounts of number crunching and the slightest awareness of battery energy density improvements.
Hydrogen Pipelines Studies Keep Making The Same Mistakes
By
Michael Barnard
Recently a variety of studies and memes have been expressing an odd distortion of reality, supported strongly by oil and gas industry lobbying and PR groups. The claim is that gas pipelines move a lot more energy a lot more cheaply than high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission.
Latest “Hydrogen Economy” Round Is Hype, But There Is A Place For Hydrogen
By
Michael Barnard
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. Boosterism for hydrogen outside of those spaces is just perpetuating the wrong industry.
Hydrogen cars won’t overtake electric vehicles because they’re hampered by the laws of science
By
Tom Baxter
Hydrogen has long been touted as the future for passenger cars. The hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), which simply runs on pressurised hydrogen from a fuelling station, produces zero carbon emissions from its exhaust. It can be filled as quickly as a fossil-fuel equivalent and offers a similar driving distance to petrol. It has some heavyweight backing, with Toyota for instance launching the second-generation Mirai later in 2020.
Green Hydrogen Pipeline Surges on a Wave of Announced Mega-Projects
By
Jason Deign
In its first report, titled Green Hydrogen Production: Landscape, Projects and Costs, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables counted 3.2 gigawatts of planned electrolyzer capacity, a twelvefold increase over the cumulative installed capacity at the time. As of March 2020, that pipeline had increased to 8.2 gigawatts, or 31 times the cumulative installed capacity today
Chemical plant explosion in California leaves hydrogen car drivers without fuel
By
Angie Bergenson
An explosion at an Air Products facility resulted in hydrogen supply vehicles being pulled off roads.
Mine Gas Feed-in Tariff as Precedent for Hydrogen FiT
By
Karl-friedrich Lenz
Anyway, if there is a feed-in tariff for mine gas, there is really no reason not to have one for power to gas hydrogen as well.
Feed-in Tariff for Hydrogen?
By
Karl-friedrich Lenz
So I was wondering if there was any way to use a feed-in tariff system to boost the power to gas sector, just as a feed-in tariff system has successfully brought solar to scale up quickly.
