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Posted on 10/13/2023 4:50:25 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A regional effort to build out a hydrogen hub in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky will receive up to $925 million as part of the Biden Administration’s effort to decarbonize the U.S. economy.
The Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (Arch2), a West Virginia-led effort that combines the production of hydrogen from natural gas with carbon capture and storage, is one of seven regional hubs that will be funded over the coming years. The administration projects the Arch2 effort will create 18,000 construction jobs and 3,000 permanent jobs.
Another winner is the Mid-Atlantic Clean Hydrogen Hub (Mach2), which envisions development in southeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey that would generate hydrogen from renewable and nuclear sources and use it for chemical manufacturing and transportation. The proposal was approved for up to $750 million under the hydrogen hub program.
President Joe Biden and Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will make the announcement in Philadelphia on Friday.
Hydrogen, a gas that produces no greenhouse gasses when burned, is seen as a promising substitute for fossil fuels in industries that are hard to decarbonize, such as cement and steel making, shipping, and chemical production.
But the little hydrogen that is produced in the U.S. today comes from natural gas and results in large carbon dioxide emissions. So far, clean hydrogen is neither broadly available nor in demand yet. Funding a series of hydrogen hubs across the U.S. would help potential hydrogen makers and takers organize into regional networks that could form the basis of a clean hydrogen economy, Department of Energy officials have said.
This is part of the Biden administration’s ambitious decarbonization goals, which involve a net zero carbon electric grid by 2035 and a net zero economy by 2050.
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Anybody see a problem with that phrase?
Global Warming PING!
Not at all... what do you see?
Isn’t water vapor a greenhouse gas? And where does the H2 come from?
Yup, its why the Biden administration has to waste a billion on it
Gas Utilities Are Promoting Hydrogen, But It Could Be A Dead End For Consumers And The Climate
https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2022/03/29/gas-utility-hydrogen-proposals-ignore-a-superior-decarbonization-pathway-electrification/?sh=319500e76a19
Isn’t water vapor a greenhouse gas? And where does the H2 come from?
Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere by several orders of magnitude, but the greenie-weenies don’t want you to know that.
Water vapor itself is a greenhouse gas. In fact, it is the most abundant one present in our atmosphere. The quoted statement is false.
The amount of water vapor released by using H2 as a fuel would be infinitesimal compared to what is already in the atmosphere, but that would not stop them from braying about it. But not until we have blown a few trillion on H2 infrastructure. That is how they wear down the system.
Hydrogen combustion produces the #1 greenhouse gas - water vapor.
“Decarbonize”? Suicide. Without carbon there cannot be life.
Burned hydrogen generates water.
Are you saying that the water it generates is a greenhouse gas?
Are the oceans killing us?
Linde down north of Atlanta makes plants that convert natural gs to hydrogen
Hydrogen is, indeed, a” gas that produces no greenhouse gasses when burned”. Wholly missing from this statement, is the fact that 99 percent of the hydrogen produced today comes from processes that produce large quantities of CO2, which is released to the atmosphere. There are simply no plans on any horizon that feasibly change this. The pipe dreams of “clean hydrogen”, “hydrogen storage”, “hydrogen distribution”, etc., are not only unachievable, but they are impossible with today’s technologies. This article is about building a cart to be pulled by Unicorns, before there are any Unicorns.
Yet another dry hole. But, I sure those getting the bucks will kick back an honest 10% to the right people...
Yet another dry hole. But, I sure those getting the bucks will kick back an honest 10% to the right people...
Follow the money. Exactly who is behind these businesses that is getting this money? I believe we will have our answer.
With an efficient way to get hydrogen. It is a huge win. Think about it, water(H2O) is the most combustible substance on Earth.
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They hydrogen comes from water
Yes and the Tonga volcano eruption causing last summer’s abnormal hot spell was a conclusive demonstration.
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