Articles include: wood pellet loophole in Paris Accord; bike licensing and justice; hydrogen and the grid; California oil spillers and the law; jobs; US and China and Clean technology; electric trucks; Canada’s melting permafrost; Report: halting methane emissions.
Tag: Hydrogen
The Daily Climate, April 16, 2021
Articles include: Canadian methane emissions; Hawaiian coral reefs; phase-out of non-EVs; better highways; funding focus changes on infrastructure; Japan & hydrogen; South Korea funding coal plants; wildfires and Alaska; Utilities and clean energy standards; clean hydrogen energy; US and China – foes; 3% of ecosystems remain intact – study.
The Daily Climate, March 18, 2021
Articles include: ‘They aren’t used to losing’: Wealthy New York enclave battles over offshore windfarm; Feds move forward with New Mexico drilling plan despite community outcry; Report: Looking for climate solutions? Protect more ocean, researchers find; More than 10 million people displaced by climate disasters in six months, report finds; ‘Environmental racism’? Tenn. pipeline sparks uproar; Whiff of the unthinkable at EPA: CO2 standards for states; The race to scale up green hydrogen to help solve some of the world’s dirtiest energy problems
DeSmogBlog, January 21, 2021
Articles include: O&G Climate Denial Campaign Dates Back to 1980; Natural Gas Industry’s Hydrogen Push; Keystone XL Pipeline Canceled; Pacific Northwest Fossil Fuel Projects Dealt Massive Setbacks; Quits Fossil Fuel Lobby Group the American Petroleum Institute; Amy Coney Barrett & Climate Suit; Climate Disinformation Database: Donald Trump.
Toyota-Backed Paris Venture Targets 10,000 Hydrogen Taxis by 2024
Bloomberg: Toyota-Backed Paris Venture Targets 10,000 Hydrogen Taxis by 2024.
- HysetCo. raises 80 million euros to hasten shift among taxis
- Paris has announced plans to get polluting cars off the road
A French company plans to persuade 10,000 Paris taxi drivers to switch to hydrogen-powered cars by the time the Olympic Games come to town in three years.
HysetCo., a venture part-owned by Toyota Motor Corp. and Air Liquide SA, has raised 80 million euros ($97 million) to help hasten the shift, it said Tuesday. When Paris hosts the world’s top sporting showcase in summer 2024, the city will already be rid of diesel cars, ahead of a ban on gasoline cars from 2030.
The Gospel of Hydrogen Power
The New York Times discusses The Gospel of Hydrogen Power. Mike Strizki powers his house and cars with hydrogen he home-brews. He is using his retirement to evangelize for the planet-saving advantages of hydrogen batteries.
In December, the California Fuel Cell Partnership tallied 8,890 electric cars and 48 electric buses running on hydrogen batteries, which are refillable in minutes at any of 42 stations there. On the East Coast, the number of people who own and drive a hydrogen electric car is somewhat lower. In fact, there’s just one. His name is Mike Strizki. He is so devoted to hydrogen fuel-cell energy that he drives a Toyota Mirai even though it requires him to refine hydrogen fuel in his yard himself.
“Yeah, I love it,” Mr. Strizki said of his 2017 Mirai. “This car is powerful, there’s no shifting, plus I’m not carrying all of that weight of the batteries,” he said in a not-so-subtle swipe at the world’s most notable hydrogen naysayer, Elon Musk.
The Daily Climate, December 17, 2020
The Daily Climate discusses: Carbon-neutral flight; building emissions; China, coal, and Australia; Solar project in NW Arctic; fastest growing food source; Canada’s hydrogen strategy; Study – forests and heat and dryness; Australian farms and drought.
Yale Climate Connections, December 11, 2020
Articles include: fire-scorched land and mudslides; 3 books on hurricanes; What causes flowers to bloom in the fall?; Emphasizing ‘opportunity’ to help bridge divide on climate action; NOAA report card: Arctic and warming; Water scarcity and the climate crisis; Climate change during the late Triassic linked to mass extinctions; Extreme weather and olive oil production; green hydrogen.
California Is Trying to Jump-Start the Hydrogen Economy
The New York Times discusses how California Is Trying to Jump-Start the Hydrogen Economy.
Since President George W. Bush fueled a minivan with hydrogen 15 years ago, the promise of cars and trucks powered by the fuel has come up mostly empty.
That hydrogen pump, in Washington, closed long ago. But in California, the beginnings of a hydrogen economy may finally be dawning after many fits and starts.
Green Hydrogen: Could It Be Key to a Carbon-Free Economy?
Yale Climate Connections discusses Green Hydrogen: Could It Be Key to a Carbon-Free Economy? Green hydrogen, which uses renewable energy to produce hydrogen from water, is taking off around the globe. Its boosters say the fuel could play an important role in decarbonizing hard-to-electrify sectors of the economy, such as long-haul trucking, aviation, and heavy manufacturing.
Saudi Arabia is constructing a futuristic city in the desert on the Red Sea called Neom. The $500 billion city — complete with flying taxis and robotic domestic help — is being built from scratch and will be home to a million people. And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? Not oil. The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules.
This summer, a large U.S. gas company, Air Products & Chemicals, announced that as part of Neom it has been building a green hydrogen plant in Saudi Arabia for the last four years. The plant is powered by 4 gigawatts from wind and solar projects that sprawl across the desert. It claims to be the world’s largest green hydrogen project — and more Saudi plants are on the drawing board.