02-24-2023, 03:41 AM
I don’t want a bait and switch. If “Turquoise Hydrogen” is economically viable to produce, let’s see a scaled up version of it working. Otherwise, we know the drill:
1. Sorry, the Turquoise bit won’t work, but now we have the infrastructure set up we might as well produce Blue Hydrogen.
2. Sorry again, but the squints have let us down on CCS and catalysis, so it makes sense to release the carbon dioxide and methane gases into the atmosphere but we’ll buy a few bogus carbon credits to keep everybody happy.
Once the producers get approvals and governments commit to subsidies and guaranteed purchases of hydrogen, we all know they’ll be allowed to rewrite the deals to make them work. We’ve seen governments refuse to hold contractors to time constraints and default provisions in rail deals and tollway constructions. Those sorts of investments are too big to fail.
1. Sorry, the Turquoise bit won’t work, but now we have the infrastructure set up we might as well produce Blue Hydrogen.
2. Sorry again, but the squints have let us down on CCS and catalysis, so it makes sense to release the carbon dioxide and methane gases into the atmosphere but we’ll buy a few bogus carbon credits to keep everybody happy.
Once the producers get approvals and governments commit to subsidies and guaranteed purchases of hydrogen, we all know they’ll be allowed to rewrite the deals to make them work. We’ve seen governments refuse to hold contractors to time constraints and default provisions in rail deals and tollway constructions. Those sorts of investments are too big to fail.