We are browbeaten into believing that green hydrogen is an essential development to reaching the holy grail of Net Zero. This necessity is despite the major safety concerns of hydrogen (which is highly flammable and explosive), that it is hugely energy intensive to produce and store and that guaranteed, inflation linked prices at more than four times the cost of gas will have to be subsidised by UK tax payers and consumers.
But the UK Government commisioned its own consultant reports which showed than hydrogen has both direct and indirect Global Warming Potential (GWP) which is very much worse weight for weight than CO2 and that it is expected that there will be up to 10% fugitive hydrogen just in transport and use, never mind in production where producers will regularly vent hydrogen (or ‘flame it’ ) to the air.
So here is what the UK Gov have said to green hydrogen producers:
within this link you can find an Excel file, “Fugitive Hydrogen Emissions Risk Reduction Plan and Annual Report Templates”
and this says,
“Hydrogen itself does not adsorb infrared radiation and so is not classified as a direct Greenhouse Gas (GHG). However, if released in significant quantities – for instance through fugitive emissions – hydrogen would change the chemistry of the atmosphere and would increase the warming effect of other GHGs released. This and other ‘indirect’ effects mean emissions of hydrogen have an impact on climate change.”
Those indirect effects – the production of nitrous oxides when hydrogen is burnt in air- have 298 times more GWP than CO2. And yet, unlike oil, producers are not being held liable for downstream global warming impacts.
So there you have it. The bald truth.
So the great British public are being duped yet agian.
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