Home » Posts tagged 'hydrogen'
Tag Archives: hydrogen
The Bulletin: February 11-17, 2026
The Bulletin: February 11-17, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Requiem For An Oil Glut | Art Berman Our Leaders Couldn’t Fix Our Problems If They Wanted To (And They Don’t Want To) Life Before Petroleum – by Ugo Bardi – Chimeras […]
World On Threshold Of Natural Hydrogen “Gold Rush,” Geologists Say
World On Threshold Of Natural Hydrogen “Gold Rush,” Geologists Say Speaking this weekend at a Denver meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, geologists heralded a coming, game-changing surge in mankind’s harvesting of a resource long thought impractical to collect: naturally-occurring or “geologic hydrogen.” The scientists provided a first look at the findings of […]
White (Hydrogen) Lies
White (Hydrogen) Lies Photo by Carlos Torres on Unsplash Geologists, while searching for oil and gas in France, have found the biggest deposit of pure naturally occurring hydrogen yet. A source of fuel which “burns clean” and hot, and thus can “replace” fossil fuels in “hard to decarbonize” areas of the industry like steel, glass or cement manufacturing, not […]
Japan Tried to Build a Hydrogen Society. It Backfired Spectacularly.
Japan Tried to Build a Hydrogen Society. It Backfired Spectacularly. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Andriy Onufriyenko//Getty Images Japan has long been a leader in hydrogen energy and fuel cell technology. Companies like Toyota plan to build entire cities entirely powered by hydrogen. A new report from an environmental think-tank argues that Japan is investing in […]
Hydrogen hopium: Storage
Hydrogen hopium: Storage Source: Russel Rhodes (2011) Explosive Lessons in Hydrogen Safety. https://appel.nasa.gov/2011/02/02/explosive-lessons-in-hydrogen-safety/ Preface. Preface. What is hopium? Irrational or unwarranted optimism. An addiction to false hopes. A metaphorical substance that causes people to believe in a false hope (H + opium). And Hopium makes fuel cell hydrogen cars! What could be more suitable for today’s post. […]
Hydrogen hopium: green hydrogen from water
Hydrogen hopium: green hydrogen from water Additional steps not shown in above figure: getting water to the electrolyzer, compress or liquefy to -423 F before storage, the trucks to deliver H to stations costing $75 million each, since pipelines are super expensive and may leak, corrode, and explode (Zhao 2018) Preface. For all the reasons why […]
Another extraordinary delusion: Mining helium from the Moon
Another extraordinary delusion: Mining helium from the Moon Asia Times tells us that there is a “secret mining war” taking place in space over helium-3, a version of helium which is surprisingly abundant on the Moon. Helium-3 is an isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron. The far more prevalent arrangement is helium-4, two […]
For Many, Hydrogen Is the Fuel of the Future. New Research Raises Doubts.
For Many, Hydrogen Is the Fuel of the Future. New Research Raises Doubts. Industry has been promoting hydrogen as a reliable, next-generation fuel to power cars, heat homes and generate electricity. It may, in fact, be worse for the climate than previously thought. It is seen by many as the clean energy of the future. […]
