Daniel

The war so far is costing $1 billion per day. It's a total joke, and the US people are getting fleeced by military contractors

We could decarbonise very quickly if we wanted to, and that fuel is hydrogen

$1 trillion p.a. in interest payments to service the US debt petrodollar hegemony doesn't work

Good luck with the 'sand-battery-and-heat-pump' economy..

EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year Don't forget us on International Women's Day, writes Leqaa Kordia.

“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year”

Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.

There's probably never been a better time to stand up a green hydrogen based ammonia industry in Australia - especially if gas prices continue to rocket and China electrolyser tech can get on the learning curve of solar and batteries.

Spain's Moeve teams up with Masdar on $1.2 billion green hydrogen project Spanish energy company Moeve has approved a major green hydrogen project involving more than 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in investments, with Abu Dhabi renewable energy company Masdar as a minority partner.

Spain's Moeve teams up with Masdar on $1.2 billion green hydrogen project reut.rs/4roQxlL

China launches integrated green wind and hydrogen projects in Kazakhstan--Seetao The wind power project agreement marks the extension of the whole industrial chain under the framework of the joint construction of the the Belt and Road between the two countries

China launches integrated green wind and hydrogen projects in Kazakhstan

www.seetaoe.com/details/2597...

Snam to invest €200m in Italian hydrogen pipeline network by 2030 Italian natural gas infrastructure firm Snam plans to invest €200m ($231.7m) by 2030 to develop a hydrogen pipeline backbone.

Snam to invest €200m in Italian hydrogen pipeline network by 2030

www.h2-view.com/story/snam-t...

Destroying the planet to push up Tesla's share price, as usual

Nope

I'm not really criticising. I like the Inflation Reduction Act, and we need a new administration.

Iran were actually experimenting with hydrogen turbines a few years ago

Main takeaway: shareholders should be incentivised to invest in renewables 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙮𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙣, rather than being incentivised and insured to invest in fossil energy pathways

The weakest link: why shareholders are both the cause and answer to the climate crisis In the complex web of climate economics and corporate responsibility, an ironic reality is emerging: shareholders, who have often resisted…

This system will fail if #neoliberalism, #deregulation, #financialization, and #shareholdercapitalism are not blocked or impeded to preserve their own cash flows

The fact is, we arrive at a block [globally] without fuel as a transferrable energy medium. They are exploiting this oversight to say no hydrogen is necessary.

No hydrogen, no real transition from fossil energy structures

Yes, I have consistently argued this case. It's about finance.

Taxing shareholders is the single best answer to how to deal with #shareholdercapitalism. But there is more! Here is the 3-point to-do list regarding finance:

OpenAI (ChatGPT) tends to fashion answers in certain ways; it can be untruthful while pretending not to be

Ask Anthropic if you are unsure about anything. A quick-view is probably available via Perplexity, but I don't have a subscription. Perplexity (Sonar) works fine for most queries, and you can specify detail accurately

Once the electricity market for any fossil fuels is totally hollowed out by renewables, then electricity starts to eat into other fossils; but is still going to be limited by intrinsic fuel constraints.

So planning H2 infrastructure now means VRE just continues.

So yes, 'renewables-wise' we are actually on track; but only about 75% of the global economy

We need hydrogen, for about 25-35% of most economies

Good point. Another very interesting one is that we had 793GW of renewable capacity additions last year, and the goal by most metrics is 1,000GW capacity additions per annum by 2030

I expect (to be reasonable) we will decarbonise natural gas (to keep fossil shareholders in pocket) via pyrolysis

It's a lot of people both ideologically and commercially invested in blocking hydrogen

I have no commercial interest in hydrogen

I still don't see why EV heads are so reluctant to even consider the concept of hydrogen (for anything) when it will be necessary to replace vast amounts of oil demand, and then industry, seasonal energy storage etc

Why can't they accept this - batteries don't replace fossil fuels

Portugal is investing heavily in hydrogen, with current planned expenditure reaching €2.8 billion

The hurdle (I presume) is attracting private investment and financing. Capital intensive projects require low financing costs, but I imagine Portugal has this covered

Iran has just apologised for sending those drones, so the Economist is just stirring trouble at this stage..

Kafkaesque. Trump & co, following the crazed war criminal Netanyahou, all following a cokehead Mafia boss with no actual funding

Note: scenarios like those produced by the IEA, IRENA and BloombergNEF are somewhat vague, and in many cases still maintain approximately 25% of emissions which are badly accounted for

EU network planners, WindEurope etc are far more focused, with hydrogen being central to an effective transition

New EU grids package pushes for €240bn of investment in hydrogen networks — and fully integrates H₂ into bloc’s energy system planning Two vast hydrogen pipelines have been included in the bloc’s list of eight priority ‘Energy Highways’

The main oversight continues to be hydrogen

➡️ EU planning and investment is for 25-35% of the energy system to shift to hydrogen, via both imports and domestic production
➡️ The fact is renewables are on track, which means we avoid outright failure, but the next step is most definitely hydrogen

Regarding the global net zero goal:

➡️ Most mainstream scenarios specify 1,000GW of RES capacity additions per year by 2030. We are at 793GW in 2025
➡️ The main barrier is fuel use however, and while the investment and planning for hydrogen exists, the social narrative is still lacking