New long-anticipated paper on the mirage of “blue hydrogen” by @howarth_cornell and @mzjacobson dropped this morning. Here’s a good plain English summary:
UK plan to replace fossil gas with blue hydrogen ‘may backfire’ theguardian.com/environment/20…
UK plan to replace fossil gas with blue hydrogen ‘may backfire’ theguardian.com/environment/20…
And here is press release from Cornell and link to original paper. Which is a fantastic piece of science:
https://twitter.com/atkinsoncenter/status/1425815047868239873
Key point: By “may backfire,” the Guardian means “will make climate change worse instead of better-just like fracking before it” and not “it’s stupid so it won’t happen,” which is the kind of backfire I’m working for.
Blue hydrogen is the love child of two stupidities: methane and carbon capture and storage.
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