Paul Martin: "Hydrogen - The Decarbonization Problem"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
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🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, chemical engineer Paul Martin joins The Great Simplification to talk about all things hydrogen. There are many 'Fuels of the Future' about which the media likes to create hopeful and seamless narratives, one of the currently popular of these being hydrogen. Where does hydrogen come from and what do we already depend on hydrogen for - is it as 'clean' as the media leads us to believe? How can we think about hydrogen from a systems perspective to determine if it is really an energy solution - or an energy problem? What does this mean for the design of global supply chains entering into a simplified material future?
About Paul Martin:
Paul Martin is a Canadian chemical engineer with decades of experience making and using hydrogen and syngas. As a chemical process development specialist, Paul offers services to an international clientele via his private consultancy Spitfire Research. He is also co-founder of the Hydrogen Science Coalition, a nonprofit organization providing science-based information about hydrogen from a position free from commercial interest.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins. |
| 0:06.3 | That's me. |
| 0:07.7 | On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, the environment, in our society. |
| 0:17.0 | Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the bird's eye view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can do about it as a society and as individuals. |
| 0:33.3 | Hydrogen. We hear a lot about it in the news. Is it the fuel of the future or more of a boondoggle or |
| 0:41.1 | something in between? Joining me to today to discuss a wide arc of the pros and cons of hydrogen |
| 0:49.7 | is chemical engineer and process development expert Paul Martin. |
| 0:55.8 | Paul works at Spitfire Research and has had a lot of experience across the chemical process industry |
| 1:03.8 | working with hydrogen and syn gas. |
| 1:07.4 | Where might hydrogen fit into a lower carbon, more sustainable future? |
| 1:12.6 | Does it have net energy, affordability, scalability aspects to it? |
| 1:17.9 | Is it really an energy solution or more of an energy problem? |
| 1:22.0 | This is the first of a podcast I've had with a hydrogen expert. |
| 1:28.0 | Let's dive in on this topic with Paul Martin. |
| 1:43.5 | Hey, Paul, good to see you. |
| 1:46.0 | Hi. |
| 1:47.2 | Thank you for taking time to be here. |
| 1:50.6 | I saw you on a biophysical economic institute webinar talking about hydrogen. |
| 1:58.2 | And you know that topic, north, south horizontal vertical net gross and I thought you'd be a |
| 2:06.5 | great guest to have on to update us on hydrogen reality well glad to hear that I have a lot of people |
| 2:15.7 | accusing me of hating hydrogen but it would be a very strange |
| 2:18.4 | choice of career if I hated hydrogen. I've made an awful lot of it and used a lot of it. So I don't |
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