I get it, everybody does, but coal gasification is not the only way to produce hydrogen, and certainly not the long term way, in the long term electrolysis or catalysis will be the main method in conjunction with seawater desalination processes.
btw., Those emissions figures are a bit out of date, they are referring to gasification the old way, which is like the cooking version of a wood fired oven. There are several new techniques under development right now that use bioreactors to generate hydrogen from brown coal, with methane and other useful industrial or commercial gases as the principle by-products, but it doesn't suit the political perspective of some in the renewables sector to discuss these options. They've even been trying to have funding for the projects and Newcastle Uni and ANU to be cut on environmental grounds! That only proves to me how disingenuous the renewables sector is about reducing greenhouse gas, the actions expose profit as their primary motivation.
btw., Those emissions figures are a bit out of date, they are referring to gasification the old way, which is like the cooking version of a wood fired oven. There are several new techniques under development right now that use bioreactors to generate hydrogen from brown coal, with methane and other useful industrial or commercial gases as the principle by-products, but it doesn't suit the political perspective of some in the renewables sector to discuss these options. They've even been trying to have funding for the projects and Newcastle Uni and ANU to be cut on environmental grounds! That only proves to me how disingenuous the renewables sector is about reducing greenhouse gas, the actions expose profit as their primary motivation.
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