Hydrogen headaches

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What are the barriers to cheap green hydrogen?

As COP28 debates the future of fossil fuels, many people think low-carbon hydrogen could replace them for some uses. But, hydrogen has plenty of problems of its own: water use, public resistance to building infrastructure and above all, its cost.

Ed Crooks talks to three leaders from politics and business, who are trying to find ways to cure these headaches.

Michelle Lujan-Grisham, Governor of New Mexico has launched an initiative to provide a strategic water supply for the industry. Mark Newman is CEO of Chemours, a company that produces a crucial technology for the electrolyzers that can split water into hydrogen and oxygen. John Hartley is CEO of Levidian, a UK-based company that can use methane to make both hydrogen, and graphene – a valuable carbon product.

They’ve all been at COP28, talking about how their solutions could help the world get off fossil fuels.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Energy Gang coming to you from the COP28 climate talks in
0:07.3	Dubai.
0:08.3	I'm it Crooks.
0:12.3	Now the central issue of these talks is clearly emerging as whether the governments of the world
0:18.6	will agree to make a commitment to phase out the use of fossil fuels. And if the world is to move off fossil fuels,
0:24.2	then low carbon hydrogen is probably going to have to be part of the energy mix that replaces them,
0:29.0	particularly for specific uses including industrial heat and heavy trucks.
0:33.6	But to turn that vision of a hydrogen economy into a reality, there are many, many barriers
0:37.8	that need to be overcome.
0:38.8	And that's what we're going to be talking about in this episode.
0:41.9	One big issue is with winning political and public support to get the essential infrastructure
0:46.1	built.
0:47.1	Mark Newman, who's chief executive of the US Chemicals Company, Comoors, says it's much harder
0:51.2	than it should be to build the factories that provide essential
0:54.2	components for the electrolyzers that can turn water into green hydrogen.
0:59.2	By any measure there's no net zero without a meaningful hydrogen economy.
1:04.3	Perfect shouldn't be the enemy of good.
1:06.6	We need much more collaboration between industry and governments
1:11.0	as it relates to regulation
1:12.8	so that we can bring these good solutions
1:15.6	to effect now, not 10 years from now.
1:19.2	And another key issue is just how expensive low carbon hydrogen
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