RE: Corrected Numbers13 Jan 2025 08:14
It gets worse! ITM is essentially an experiment to Linde. ITM needs Linde, Linde does not need them, not even close! Linde so far investing 31 times more into Blue hydrogen than it's entire stake in ITM power.
Blue hydrogen will also fall under low-carbon hydrogen when combined with CCS. And remember, the UK allocated £22 billion towards executing CCS in collaboration with fossil fuel production, ten times more than they allocated to all other green energy industries combined. Let that sink in. Why did the UK do that? The power of oil and gas lobbying.
Now let this sink in. Linde has a stake in ITM of around 16% (under £100 million) that equates to about 0.06% of the Linde market cap. And we do not yet know what their investment will be on the Shell 100MW project. So 0.06% of their 160bn market cap, if ITM went bankrupt tomorrow Linde would barely bat an eyelid.
Linde has invested $2 billion in a single blue hydrogen project in Canada, which equates to 1% of their market cap.
Linde has already taken a final investment decision to build a new $1.8 billion blue H2 complex co-located with OCI's ammonia production complex in Beaumont, Texas – 0.92% of their market cap.
So, the ITM stake of £100 million plus the undisclosed Shell project investment. This is a drop in the ocean in comparison to their $3,129,101,288 billion investment into just two blue hydrogen projects. Thats It is really time to wake up and see just why ITM cannot sell its stock and short-sellers are increasing.