RE: Labour manifesto - £500m dedicated to green hydrogen17 Jun 2024 12:20
Is this deliberate misrepresentation or total ignorance that I've been reading on this board?
Green hydrogen projects work in conjunction with the production of renewable energy. That's what makes them GREEN.
They are not about creating energy directly from naturally occurring sources (wind, hydro, uranium, fossils, sun) but about converting electricity into hydrogen via the "electrolysis". The hydrogen being a fuel. And it's green because the electricity comes from those plants / turbines powered by the renewable sources above (wind, hydro, sun).
So the more renewable energy projects, the more we can have "green hydrogen" electrolysers.
For those who really need to know, why hydrogen instead of the electricity produced by those renewable plants / farms / turbines? Because hydrogen has been demonstrated to be a highly effective fuel, more so that pure electricity, particularly for applications involving motors and engines. But it's by-product being vapour, it's environmentally friendly.