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Has Hydrogen’s Moment Finally Arrived?

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Not long ago, it was said that “hydrogen is the fuel of the future - and always will be.” Now, with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law tagging $9.5 billion for developing a domestic hydrogen economy, this simplest of all elements is increasingly being discussed as a viable pathway for long-distance trucking, shipping, and hard-to-decarbonize industries like cement and steel. But how clean is clean hydrogen, really? And what will it take to make green hydrogen a cost-competitive option in applications like manufacturing, transportation, and grid-scale energy storage? Guests: Julio Friedmann, Chief Scientist, Carbon Direct Sunita Satyapal, Director, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, DOE  Alan Krupnick, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future  For show notes and related links, visit https://www.climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Climate One. For decades, hydrogen has been considered the fuel of the future. Now,

0:35.6

with a slew of new US.S. tax incentives, research

0:39.3

and funding, its moment may have finally arrived.

0:42.3

Countries are seeing that they need to have a carbon-free option other than electrification

0:48.3

to meet their climate goals.

0:50.3

There are debates about how to best make clean hydrogen and how much we should continue to rely on hydrogen made from fossil fuels.

0:57.0

If we stop ourselves from using the resources we have just because of a philosophical issue of keeping it in the ground,

1:06.0

that seems to be tying one hand behind our back.

1:10.0

And how could more widespread production and use of

1:12.1

hydrogen shake up global energy politics? If you have a bunch of distributed fuel producers around

1:18.3

the world, then it does change the way that a country, say, like Russia, would think about its

1:23.3

ability to leverage its energy power. Has hydrogen's moment finally arrived?

1:28.1

I'm Ariana Brocious.

1:29.6

And I'm Greg Dalton.

1:31.0

Hydrogen is the first element in the periodic table, the lightest element, and the most abundant.

1:36.8

Of course, hydrogen is part of that famous duo H-2O and methane, CH4.

1:42.8

But we also interact with it in a bunch of other ways, to make steel, ammonia, and fertilizer.

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