Re:Green steel without green hydrogen – can it work?
by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @02:18PM
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There's no economics in which blue hydrogen is cheaper than green hydrogen.
So it's basically just good old fashioned lies.
Instead these are advertisements for "blue" hydrogen-- cracking natural gas and then injecting the CO2 back into the ground. It's a campaign by fossil fuel companies to preserve some of the value of their capital base, rather than just being shut down entirely. Blue hydrogen will be a lot cheaper, at the cost of fossil emissions from methane and CO2 that escape from the equipment or leak from the wellhead.