This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
You can’t ask the government to drive innovation and take on difficult challenges if people keep labelling everything that might not work out a boondoggle. The IRA was like $800 billion. It’s okay if 7 is spent on a longshot.
What else? solar freaking roadways?
NIMBYs everywhere, go figure.
The “blue hydrogen”, “produced from natural gas which is then sequestered” bit is a ridiculous stretch though. Forcing byproducts back into the ground is one of the “justifications”/“pros” for fracking.
Don’t they know that government funds are meant for corporate bailouts??
pshh. what a waste. all you have to do is dunk your head underwater and breathe in the oxygen.
bam: two free hydrogen.