Frank Todd

Let's get this clear: you are all anti-hydrogen campaigners

Including Jesse Jenkins who has promoted #shale extensively in the past, and now campaigns fiercely to block hydrogen via the vacuous and nonsensical 'three pillars' rules which effectively double the price of hydrogen for a decade

Yeah, it's not the main component of the energy transition - already replacing coal for steel & soon everything else

You mean, how do we block hydrogen & sink the energy transition - before it's too late?

With *one* single mention of hydrogen throughout the entire paper, I think it's pretty clear which side of the fence you stand

Germany could import up to 100 TWh of green hydrogen via pipelines by 2035, study shows Germany could cover up to 100 terawatt-hours (TWh) of its annual energy needs with imports of green hydrogen via pipelines from neighbouring countries by the mid-2030s, covering a significant share of its projected demand, a study showed on Thursday.

The anti-hydrogen lobby is feeling the heat. There isn't even an abstract!

Only *one* singular mention of hydrogen throughout the entire text - as if it wasn't the central component of EU policy to net zero
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Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates Global warming had long been discussed as an abstract matter of physics and chemistry. Only in the 1990s did the more tangible costs caused by natural…

"In part due to this statistics-driven view, reinsurers asserted that evermore frequent and damaging natural catastrophes are likely a consequence of man-made #climate change at an earlier stage than, for example, the IPCC, making them important translators of climate change knowledge"

Not to tempt fate, but discussing how unhinged the finance sector is vital. It is #shareholders fuelling the climate crisis, not anyone else - they profit from the status quo and will not concede to a long term perspective on climate - they are only in it for immediate profit. Monetary policy etc

I think he is talking about a financial crisis. For example, if the banking system collapses, and cannot be
'bailed out', then insurance won't cover most large transactions, and therefore the scope of banks and the financial industry is very limited. Scary. danielrwilliams.medium.com/financing-th...

Because of course shifting to the only zero emissions fuel type might actually be worse for the climate than natural gas? And you expect people to take CICERO seriously? LOL

And [CICERO] is not funded by Norwegian oil and gas shareholders? And their profits are not threatened by #hydrogen; for transport (trucks, aviation, shipping, rail etc), industry, or indeed the entire gas grid - which will spell the end of the FF monopoly? danielrwilliams.medium.com/policy-group...

Hydrogen replaces shale

Keep burning shale. Start a few wars. 'Occupy Mars'. Etc.

EXCLUSIVE | IEA criticises EU green hydrogen rules on additionality, time matching and geographic correlation International Energy Agency says such requirements — also planned in the US — risk impeding industry development and should be applied ‘cautiously’

Every EU member state has criticised the rules, and now even the IEA has criticised them. If #electrolysis is not grid connected, it cannot balance the grid - which is the primary function of electrolysis within a mostly VRE-based grid

#threepillars www.hydrogeninsight.com/policy/exclu...

He lobbies for the same 'rules' that lobbyists want to apply in the EU; which basically double the price of hydrogen despite OECD grids guaranteed to be carbon-zero within 10yrs. They make no sense - never applied to battery imports, fracking, mining etc

#threepillars #additionality #delegatedacts

Homepage Breakthrough Institute is a global research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

No, he is a #shale advocate, working with thebreakthrough.org to promote fracked gas within the climate community. Why ban tax credits to electrolysis when the grid will decarbonise in 10 years? Makes absolutely no sense to kill off the industry

He promotes shale, and lobbies against hydrogen

Agreed

It's been over 840 days since the IRA #hydrogen subsidies were announced - still being blocked by lobbyists like Jesse Jenkins bsky.app/profile/stet...

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Jesse Jenkins: promotes #shale, tries to ban grid-based #hydrogen

*Nobody being paid by the fossil fuel industry here..*

Jesse Jenkins promotes #hydrofracturing & applauds the tax credits for #shale, yet emissions from electrolysis using the regular US grid are too high to endorse the $3/kg tax credit pledged..

#45V #hydrogenPTC #threepillars

Jesse Jenkins applauds tax credits for #shale, yet emissions from electrolysis using the regular US grid are too high to endorse the $3/kg tax credit pledged..

#45V #Hydrogen #threepillars

Musk made most of his money from subsidies and government support bsky.app/profile/stet...

How much of Musk’s wealth comes from tax dollars and government help? | CNN Business Elon Musk is the world’s richest person partly due to his companies’ impressive innovations. But his wealth is also due to government contracts and programs that affected his two main businesses – ele...

And then let's look at Tesla, the queen of all subsidies globally:

“The foundation for Musk’s financial success has been the US government,” said Daniel Ives, tech analyst for Wedbush Securities.
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Hydrogen doesn't emit GHGs when converted to usable energy; even via gas turbines or most engines the NOx emissions are in the ppm territory

How much of Musk’s wealth comes from tax dollars and government help? | CNN Business Elon Musk is the world’s richest person partly due to his companies’ impressive innovations. But his wealth is also due to government contracts and programs that affected his two main businesses – ele...

And then let's look at Tesla, the queen of all subsidies globally:

“The foundation for Musk’s financial success has been the US government,” said Daniel Ives, tech analyst for Wedbush Securities.
www.cnn.com/2024/11/20/b...

Hydrogen investment to top $680bn in 2024 Total investment in hydrogen projects is forecasted to top $680bn this year, an eight-fold increase on 2020, according to the latest Hydrogen Insights report from the Hydrogen Council and McKinsey & C...

€680 billion in announced (private) investments in 2024. And yes, fossil fuel #subsidies are still more than double this figure

(lobby groups, corporate espionage and others still trying to block the $280bn in subsidies pledged by the US/EU) www.gasworld.com/story/hydrog...

What’s Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures? Since early 2023, the world has seen a steep rise in temperatures that scientists are struggling to explain. Our contributor Elizabeth Kolbert talked with Gavin Schmidt, NASA’s top climate scientist, ...

What’s Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?

“It’s still pretty much amateur hour in terms of assessing what actually happened,” says NASA's top climate scientist, Gavin Schmidt.

Things are behaving in a more erratic way...

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The fossil fuel industry have a lot to lose. And $680 billion in hydrogen investments announced in 2024

So yeah, it's easy to get blocked

OECD grids? AEM electrolysis?

I don't think so. And perhaps you are not yet aware how these policy groups operate.. danielrwilliams.medium.com/policy-group...

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