{"id":66132,"date":"2023-11-13T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66132"},"modified":"2023-11-14T06:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T11:42:13","slug":"white-hydrogen-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66132","title":{"rendered":"White (Hydrogen) Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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White (Hydrogen) Lies<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo by\u00a0Carlos Torres<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Geologists, while searching for oil and gas in France, have found the biggest\u00a0<\/em>deposit<\/em><\/a> of pure naturally occurring hydrogen yet. A source of fuel which \u201cburns clean\u201d and hot, and thus can \u201creplace\u201d fossil fuels in \u201chard to decarbonize\u201d areas of the industry like steel, glass or cement manufacturing, not to mention the fact that it could be directly used to make fertilizers (ammonia) from. Heck, it might be even more abundant elsewhere than it was previously thought. \u201cYippee, modern civilization is saved! Or not\u2026?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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T<\/span>he myth of a hydrogen economy is a tough creature to slay. It has grown multiple heads over the decades, and as you cut one off, three or four new heads pop up to replace it. Since each head has a different color it certainly looks like that we will run out of the color gamut sooner than ideas on how hydrogen could \u201csave\u201d modernity. First, there was Grey hydrogen which, by the way, is still the most economically viable and thus the most widespread source of this fuel. Ironically it\u2019s demise in its role as the savior of modern civilization came from the climate movement itself, since it is made directly from methane (natural gas).\u00a0\u201cIts foul mouth reeks with CO2 and methane! Down with it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Good riddance. With the same sword swing the Brown\/Black head started to roll as well: as it is also made with fossil fuels directly (via coal gasification). Two heads with one swing! Not bad, isn\u2019t it? The faith that modern civilization cannot perish and must go on no matter what, however, has gave birth to a plethora of new heads. It started to look clear decades ago already that electrification alone will not be able to save modernity, especially when it comes to high heat applications or long distance transport. Somebody had to come up with something.<\/p>\n

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White (Hydrogen) Lies Photo by\u00a0Carlos Torres\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash Geologists, while searching for oil and gas in France, have found the biggest\u00a0deposit of pure naturally occurring hydrogen yet. A source of fuel which \u201cburns clean\u201d and hot, and thus can \u201creplace\u201d fossil fuels in \u201chard to decarbonize\u201d areas of the industry like steel, glass or cement manufacturing, not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[30832,30758,32578,33996],"class_list":["post-66132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-hydrogen","tag-hydrogen-energy","tag-the-honest-sorcerer","tag-white-hydrogen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66134,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66132\/revisions\/66134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}