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chart. 3 generations. one jenny dots july 7th on d, w. the u. s. e u lead us how to safe the climate and the last few years. they sound like a broken record. it is the dawn of the clean hydrogen. you're on that hydrogen here of hydrogen economy, because i didn't brooks clean hydrogen trail blazer and with hydrogen. then we could make it happen. okay, i think you get to just, europe is getting pretty ambitious about cleaning up its economy by 2050 that comes in and plants to reach. net 0 emissions. this means replacing the oil, that policy repeating costs the natural gas that the heat's european homes and the cold, but still burdened european power plants. to achieve all this, the content of dispatching big on hydrogen to miracle, fuel slash password in the world of energy. let's unpack why that's

a mistake and who's tends to profit from its i remember 2020, strange times as we were struggling to i'm you do, man bingeing tiger, king. brussels was busy or to be precise. the european commission, which proposes new laws for the debt and try to figure out how to save its economy while also nudging it towards becoming climate neutral. part of what they came up with was a hydrogen strategy. it talked about how the elements does not emit c o 2 when used can replace fossil fuels and will foster sustainable growth and jobs. how it did not take off in the past, but how we now close to a tipping point. and yeah, on the surface hydrogen sounds pretty great. by the way, you might want to check out a previous video on hydrogen covering a lot of the basics and shorts. you can make it from the newburgh electricity with no greenhouse gas emissions. and then the originally use it to clean up all kinds

of things from cars and trucks and planes and ships to steal making and electricity production to heat thing. this is can print suppose is a good story from your perspective, because this is much, he has books who helps the europe team as a leading energy transition, think tank. and he says, apart from its climate credentials, there was another reason that you fell in love with hydrogen and we have use, well, it fossil fuels in the past. and now we are highly dependent on fossil fuel to boats to keep to your pain economy, running, renewable hydrogen, has felt some time been possible kind of trying to. so now it was, but it also has the benefits that we can most likely produce of domestic. he skipped to 2022. when this became even more relevant, russia invaded ukraine and ended up cutting much of its natural gas supply to europe. russel's got to work again and lifted

a tighter than targets of 10000000 tons of renewable hydrogen, produced annually in the european union by 2030 and another. 10000000 tons in annual imports. and dcs. a huge advantage of hydrogen to come out in a very short span of time. sylvia pastorelli is an energy and climate container with green peas in europe. so the question is, how realistic all the sees of tape a lot is happening. there are industry plans for tens of thousands of kilometers of dedicated hydrogen pipelines, many of which made it onto the use projects of common interest list, which means the eligible for subsidies and prospect planning. in fact, 65 of the 166 projects on that list of hydrogen related, including quite a few electrolyzer switch, you need to make hydrogen from renewable electricity. and then as to europe and commissions hydrogen bank handing out hundreds of millions of zeros and subsidies

to produces. but despite all this, not much is actually happening. work has started only a few pipelines, for example, in the port a for lots of. and in terms of production capacity in 2023, the well around 213 megawatts of operational electrolytes us according to an industry study, to produce the envision 10000000 tons by 2030. we'd need about 600 times more. reality is lagging behind the use big plants and there's a reason for that. hydrogen is not the miracle solution. you need us would like it to be. as we've established green hydrogen is made from renewable electricity. this means that we need to also build a lot to motivate more than your books. we need to have lots more solar panels, wind farms being put in place. the problem is this, though, hydrogen is not the most efficient way of using this energy. take cos to power hydrogen cars. you 1st need to convert renewable energy into hydrogen,

then transport this hydrogen to a refilling station and pump it into the call that uses a fuel cell, a device that converts it back to electricity that tries to vehicle some energy is lost with every step along the way and only about 30 percent of the energy you put in make sense of the wheel. especially electric cos, i just much more efficient using close to 80 percent of the energy that goes in. the same goes for hydrogen boilers to heat buildings. by the time the hydrogen has been produced, transported and burns lost half of the energy and electric heat pump. on the other hand, moves around 3 times more heat than energy you put in, making a 270 percent efficient. to run these things on hydrogen, we'd have to be able to weigh more wind turbines and solar panels. and this means in relatively expensive process compounds to the diet, use of electricity. and this doesn't mean hydrogen is completely useless though. we need some hydrogen and some thoughts of to,

to this we don't need hydrogen across the board. so where possible direct the using electricity is the way to go and where it's struggling. so we can fold back from hydrogen. but we should use it as possibly as possible. hydrogen has been defined as an addition pain of energy as something expensive. it's not for every day. it's for the special locations of this makes the use plants look pretty overblown. but it's not the only problem with them. another is that switching things over to a hydrogen is called to be made on top very much experience in large scale or long distance hodges in transportation. so we really need more experience on that. this is such a piano and whose co, off at the study, and how hydrogen can be moved from a to be a popular idea is to simply push it through existing natural gas pipelines. well, that's not as easy as it sounds odd on it's been got done methane. so passed

a very different properties. the hardest to in a soft, very small monic year on kind of cost, charlie and cheese for pipeline materials. in fact, it's the smallest molecule on of that means that can slip into tiny cracks in the pipeline. still make it more brittle and the worst case crickets. so pipelines need to be tested and potentially refurbished before carrying hydrogen. that's quicker and cheaper than building new dedicated titled on pipelines. but it's still a big investment. even 8, the pipeline itself is going by the tide of 10 theories, owners, i need for some upgrades. so we need to change one of the compressor ser mid, getting a guest dixon and the why sees you might have heard the term h to ready in relation to this, but also 2 other pieces of guessing for structure like at n g terminals or power plants it suggests they can be easily switched to run on hydrogen in the future. but they're actually huge difference is how much hydrogen

they can handle. well, some of the definitions that the felting around the hydrogen ready, anywhere between a 100 percent and 100 percent. so at this point, we don't have an established calling understanding what hydrogen ready means and stands for depending on where on the scale a piece of equipment sits, that might need substantial refitting after all, before it can carry pure hydrogen like you, you have a diesel car you wouldn't call that electrical ready car just because you can use to shut up the car issue as have to end up costing the entire time. and that that's the same principle. and of course if wouldn't do it and that's the same for hydrogen. and even if something's a 100 percent hydrogen ready, that doesn't mean it will be running on hydrogen any time soon. or at least not on green hydrogen. that's because that's close to no green hydrogen available, and that's not likely to change soon. across the repeating union, only 0.2 percent of dedicated production is made from electrolysis. almost the

entire rest is gray hydrogen made from fossil fuels, meaning natural gas, which creates lots of c o 2 emissions. and this lack of green hydrogen opens up to scenarios and which hydrogen could actually end up hurting the climate rather than saving it's the 1st is that europe keeps building gas infrastructure that's supposedly h to ready. but since there's no green hydrogen available that keeps getting used from natural gas, which should be on its way out. and the 2nd this that's, that's a very high risk that we will be using hydrogen which is either great or not properly do. now, blue hydrogen is also made from natural gas and what's different is that produces claim. they have to come in on a massive scale before it reaches the atmosphere and then store it mathias called, it's not properly blue because the technology behind this hasn't been chosen to properly work at scale. at this point in time is very,

very limited. it's technical capacity to types of carbon into it to produce hydrogen that is acceptable from account protection perspective. meaning if we rely on blue hydrogen, we extend the life of natural gas and create emissions in the process. once again, exactly what hydrogen was supposed to help him, what we wanted to hear, what the industry have to say about this. so we contact the titles in europe, an association that counts fossil fuel made just like shell, be p and total energy, some on its members. unfortunately, they never responded. keep them in mind any way they'll make another appearance in a 2nd. it's the natural gas industry that's been pushing the idea of building more infrastructure and making blue hydrogen to show the hydrogen process. and it's easy to see why they see in hydrogen the lifeline of of their business while everyone is talking about the carbone icing. and how to leave with a fossil fuels. they see this as the perfect way of continuing their business. and

that leads us to one big reason why these you win so big on hydrogen. fossil fuel companies have been making the case for it and brussels for in other words, loving. please take a picture of important role hoford's you observatory, angie will come through lobby registers. they found that out of the 100 because loving groups in the you $25.00 half and one way or another, advocated for hydrogen in brussels. among them you find many fossil fuel matress, but also some trade groups and organizations. hydrogen year of the one who didn't get back to us is consider the most influential representing more than 500 members . many of these included this is that ceo, your go shop, see my caucus sitting next to what was the left on the line, the head of the european commission. we presented the hybrids in europe for, you know, each other very well. and this the same breaking on the pub costs, how the commission in 2020, adopted the 2 times 40 gigawatts,

production targets hydrogen. europe was pushing for then one to one into the hydrogen strategy. they went through all the figures sense a week's lane. yes. this is not just the fantasy, we have a whole a bunch of industrial pump is what underpin this and they, fremont solely presented the strategy. and you will find the time for 2 times for to deal with in trying to in, in that strategy. brussels loves the hydrogen, and hydrogen loves brussels. european decision makers commission are there and very, very happy to meet with them. so the general excuse is they have the expertise, their stakeholders, we need to talk to them. but of course they're there to serve their own interest. so way to solve that leave us. well, hydrogen is part of the solution, but no silver bullet. if it's the roll gets over hyped, it can lead to expensive, inefficient and even climate damaging choices. the your pin commission does seem to be back track and the most recent climate scenario that predicts $3000000.00 tons

of green hydrogen would be produced in the you and 2013, which is a lot less than the $10000000.00 tons by send us the official targets this could be assigned that the hydrogen hype is starting to crumble, and reality is taking over. now, what do you think dispensing big on hydrogen the way to go? oh, is it just the destruction? let us know the comments and don't forget to hit subscribe because we have more videos like this for you every friday. the the is the most important stuff can be used across different jo, this is the real challenge itself. needs to be incredibly scarce. waste, what the heck us and transforming business is on

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