re: “and emerging technology such as hydrogen power.”
NPR, where are they going to mine that?
Many left wing climate activists oppose hydro power as well.
Everything I've seen about hydrogen says its a net-negative. You need to put in a large amount of energy to create and store the hydrogen.
I think the central-planners' notion is - you have solar and wind which have strong peaks and troughs of energy production. What do you do with the extra energy produced on warm, sunny days by wind and solar? you send that power to make hydrogen, where it can be (in theory) stored for use later, when the sun isn't shining, and the wind isn't blowing.
Or you just use coal, which is cheap, and can mined anytime, and be stored anywhere, in any conditions.
Silly. They probably plan to capture all the hydrogen by boiling water. The fidiots in Nevaduh have done the requisite 2 votes to allow the Nevada Revsed Statutes addition to put in place all power in the state be provided by “renewables”. 50% by 2035 and all in by 2050. Uh, yeah. Sounds like NVNRG will be buying some out of state power. People are so stoopid. Sounds nice? Vote yes.
At last count approximately 95% of the Hydrogen produced in the USA came from converting a Kilo of Natural Gas into 1/3 Kilo of Hydrogen.
Not really green.
Hydrogen. . Right. The fabled unicorn farts.