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Could always substitute coal-gas, that's 40% hydrogen...

Never did me no harm when I were growing up in the 1960s. Used to light coal fire with a gas poker before I went down't pit of a mornin. Coal were cheaper than gas.

If ever there was a time to back a horse..

Now governments must rise to the challenge.. set the carrot and stick path to transition energy policy away from O&G. Following the recommendations of the Royal Society on energy storage will be an enormous challenge and opportunity for green H2. So too massive expansion of renewable energy gen.

Perhaps the renewed interest in PHE will spread to EQT

Is that in addition to Equinor's Saltend project : https://www.equinor.com/news/20220812-h2h-saltend-selected

which I suspect is actually one of these:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/04/uk-government-hydrogen-plan-oil-industry-taxpayer-blue-hydrogen-climate-crisis

Saltend to use 600MW green electricity to make blue hydrogen, drive CCS and then feed the blue hydrogen into a gas turbine to make .. electricity.

Yes, I know its 'an energy transition' .. but our government must have signed off on this. Just think how much extra methane leakage will occur.

Don't "give up", the discussion about efficiency is a red-herring. Do you think humans would have given up on O&G once they realised the scale of earth science, technology, engineering (the 'investment') required to get where we are today? HFC are probably 'twice as efficient' as ICE energy converters, and on the face of it batteries perhaps another 20 or 30% better still. The phrase 'on the face of it' hides all the 'cons' (environmental & investment) of mining, processing, manufacturing, distributing, and recycling involved in alternative approaches. I say we need both. Regardless, we need energy storage and masses of it. The recent Royal Society study identifies this primarily as H2. https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/low-carbon-energy-programme/large-scale-electricity-storage/. COP?? and governments must set targets and fiscal policies to push us there as fast as possible.

Https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2309633,-119.4942027,3a,75y,328.95h,94.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLiTrwdiQjIemq2IljZ8gow!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

Look roughly in a northerly direction from this road junction. Some blue pipework is visible in the distance. All appeared within the last 3 years according to google historic imagery.

I was beginning to wonder..

Plug, nel and mcphy all down today too.

Https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67430888

Bounce!

According to Reuters 90% of planned EU green hydrogen projects are awaiting FID, so when that starts coming through the electrolysis market will be massive.

Also every long term national energy storage plan - worth its salt - concludes that hydrogen will be the main vector, often in purpose built salt caverns. If there is disagreement it is on the scale and costs, of course. The only alternative to renewables is 110% nuclear power, but even that needs to generate hydrogen for portable power (e.g. transport), and back up storage for when nuclear goes off line of course, e.g. France.

Https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/toyota-shifts-from-underperforming-mirai-to-hydrogen-trucks/

The title belies a recent uptick in Mirai sales in CA

Good day for making H2 with excess wind energy.. anyone..?

Https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67242386

Helion 2.77% 25 Oct 2023

Fell on deaf ears!

All politicians should be required to have at least a degree in a STEM subject!

And 2.87% on 20/10 according to: https://shorttracker.co.uk/company/GB00B0130H42/

And more yesterday

Reflecting on the heady days when SHell and ITM collaborated on opening H2 fuelling sites, the sad sale of Motive certainly reduces risk for ITM. Another positive is that ITM probably have all the hardware & know-how to provision future sites for Motive.

From my perspective the SHell/ITM venture failed to grab market share simply because there weren't enough stations sited geographically across the UK. Dover would have swung it for me, enough fuel on my raft until I reach the H2 rich uplands of European shores.

HH: regarding S Australia, maybe they should talk to WA.

See RNS https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/ITM/wa-government-funding-vncygolw77namtl.html

Funding projects IS the problem.

Https://www.evoqueownersclub.co.uk/threads/evoque-fire-risk-persists-despite-recall.8712/

What is a MHEVS anyway?

I certainly wont have them on my raft, or a