This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
hydrogen is just a fossil fuel investment. yeah let’s just keep pouring money and resources into hydrogen, which requires natural gas for production in 95% of cases. We’ll get to green hydrogen later, after we’ve left you with the bag
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.
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.
Boondoggle. What’s the hullabaloo about this tomfoolery? It’s all gobbledygook to me.
Don’t they know that government funds are meant for corporate bailouts??