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Re:Seawater split to produce green hydrogen with nearly 100%... by japanuspus on Friday February 03, 2023 @07:43AM (#34640324)
Synthetic fuels will be nothing but greenwashing for the next 20 years: there is massive demand for industrial hydrogen (most fundamentally for synthetic fertilizers), and as long as that demand is not met with hydrogen from renewable sources, it will be supplied (as today) from from methane-steam reforming -- using the exact fossil hydrocarbons that synthetic fuels would replace.

But yes, synthetic fuels would allow people with money to go to Davos and run their yachts while claiming total greenery, so I have a feeling we will end up with green synthetic fuel and black synthetic fertilizers even if causes larger net emissions.

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Re:Seawater split to produce green hydrogen with nearly 100%... by Cthulhu_ on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:02AM (#34641138)
Ironically, as production of hydrogen increases and therefore the availability increases and price drops, more and more industries will want to make use of it, reducing availability as well.

Same with renewable energy; over here, even before an offshore wind park was completed, Microsoft swooped in and bought up its capacity for one of their datacenters.

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Re:Seawater split to produce green hydrogen with nearly 100%... by rmnwski on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:29AM (#34641415)
> even before an offshore wind park was completed, Microsoft swooped in and bought up its capacity for one of their datacenters.

Why is that bad? Isn’t it great that such an investment is so quickly finding a customer?

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