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Related: About this forumBill Gates: To cut emissions, use this Swiss Army Knife
Bill Gates | June 21, 2022
When most people picture greenhouse gas emissions, they think about cars and electricity. Thats because they turn keys, press buttons, and flip switches every day. The good news is, we already have ways to decarbonize these types of emissions (solar, wind, and nuclear power and lithium ion batteries). The bad news is, they add up to only about one third of the total.
The other two thirdsalmost 35 billion tonsare much harder for most people to see. For example, we all use products made of cement, plastic, and steel, but most of us dont manufacture them or load them onto cargo ships. To zero out emissions on these products, we need new technologies. Enter clean hydrogen. It has so many potential uses that some people refer to it as the Swiss Army Knife of decarbonization.
What hydrogen can do
The world already uses 70 million tons of hydrogen each year as a chemical in some manufacturing processes like making fertilizer. Today, nearly all that hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels. If we make that hydrogen clean, we eliminate the 1.6 percent of global emissions that it is responsible for now.
But thats just the beginning. Hydrogen is pure, reactive chemical energy. If we can bring the cost down far enough and make enough of it, we can also start using clean hydrogen to replace fossil fuels in all sorts of other industrial processes, including important ones like making plastic and steel, liquid fuels, and even food. (Its called the Swiss Army Knife for a reason.)...>>
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/Clean-Hydrogen
With Gates and his money on Team Hydrogen now, expect even faster progress
RELATED:
US DOE releases notice of intent for Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub Program
Currently, DOE plans to award funds to six to ten H2Hub projects in different regions across the country. DOE expects the program to provide a minimum award range of $400 to $500 million and a maximum range of $1 to $1.25 billion with a 50 percent minimum non-federal cost share. H2Hub projects are expected to be carried out over the course of eight to twelve years...more
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Bill Gates: To cut emissions, use this Swiss Army Knife (Original Post)
Caribbeans
Jun 2022
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keithbvadu2
(36,765 posts)1. Like cold fusion. Sounds great but it ain't quite there yet.
Like cold fusion. Sounds great but it ain't quite there yet.
Keep working on it. It's worth it.
Caribbeans
(770 posts)2. Except it is there - or here- now
The concept was pioneered by an American - in New Jersey no less- and demonstrated in 2005
For whatever reason(s) news and talk of this tech - if not deliberately suppressed - has been almost non-existent.
Parts of Europe (Aberdeen, Hannover etc) and Asia have kept on it and slowly but surely the rest of the world is catching on. This is the biggest energy revolution in at least 100 years.
Because it will change EVERYTHING.
Imagine filling your tank for ~$10 - with clean green energy and not ever having to get another smog check.
keithbvadu2
(36,765 posts)3. Yeah! Small scale but not economical yet.
Keep at it.