Hydrogen Myth Busters: Learn from the Experts
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Steve Hart of Green Nova Scotia First voices concerns about EverWind’s wind farm for hydrogen production plans. Read more in the Daily Guardian's republishing of Heidi Petracek's Global News report.
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Nova Scotia plans to build Canada's largest wind farm to power North America's first green hydrogen facility, not to power the province. Compared to fossil fuels, green hydrogen is seen as an environmentally friendly fuel. Experts, however, say there are cheaper and greener alternatives, as Global's Heidi Petracek reports.
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Little is known about hydrogen as a green energy carrier and the environmental and climate impacts of hydrogen emissions. The project HYDROGEN is led by CICERO Center for International Climate Research and financed by the Research Council of Norway. Learn more about the project's goals and its aim to look at both the advantages and the disadvantages of transitioning to a hydrogen economy.
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The Halifax Examiner—as have others—investigates the origins of all the hydrogen hype. The Examiner reports that much of the rhetoric in the European Union goes back to “Dutch hydrogen professor” Ad van Wijk, a “failed businessman and part-time professor who made it his mission to promote the use of hydrogen.”
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Joan Baxter of the Halifax Examiner contacted Michael Liebreich for a question-and-answer session on Hydrogen. Liebreich is a member of the UK Board of Trade, a former advisor to the UN on Sustainable Energy for All, and an expert on the hydrogen economy.
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Green hydrogen/ammonia is being rapidly adopted for Climate Change goals. However, Abhik Tushar Das, Chief Manager at Energy Sourcing (Gas & Power), suggests it has its own challenges and should be considered carefully before being accepted as a one-stop solution to all existing problems.
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Known Unknown: Current hydrogen leak estimates vary by up to 100-fold. We need to know more before betting on the farm.
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It is important to consider the level of demand for hydrogen production in a rapidly changing global energy sector, as well as Atlantic Canada's ability to locate competitive projects and service the markets. Atlantic Business Magazine publishes “Hydrogen Horizon,” the first in a nine-part series meant to give a high-level, moment-in-time look at Atlantic Canada's potential for hydrogen production and its associated industry.
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For a May 2023 online workshop, chemical engineer Paul Martin—co-founder of the Hydrogen Science Coalition—presents on the topic “What is Hydrogen’s Role in the Energy Transition?” The voluntary group of independent academics, scientists and engineers who aim to bring an evidence-based viewpoint to the hydrogen debate.
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A discussion with Cleaning Up podcast host Michael Liebreich and Marco Alvera, CEO of global green energy business TES. The conversation focuses on TES-H2, which is building a terminal in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, to import what Marco calls "eNG", or synthetic methane made from green hydrogen.
Green hydrogen has been labelled as one solution for Canada to meet its net zero goal by 2050. As companies clamber to get on board in Nova Scotia, CBC’s Frances Willick finds out if green hydrogen is really better for the environment.
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The Halifax Examiner’s Joan Baxter looks into the provincial government’s claims that “Green hydrogen is a clean-burning fuel that can help with our transition to green, renewable energy in circumstances where fossil fuels cannot easily be replaced.”
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