Category: Global warming

  • Is hydrogen any good for storing renewable energy?

    In my earlier essay “The Wicked Battle Over Hydrogen”, I highlighted the fact that hydrogen is not a source of energy but rather a substance for storing energy. In this essay, I will describe how to use hydrogen for energy storage and what it takes to do so. The energy in fossil fuels is solar…

  • The wicked battle over hydrogen

    Fossil fuel companies hope that the substitution of hydrogen for fossil fuels might offer them a path for the survival of their business in a zero carbon economy. Accordingly, they are lobbying governments for subsidies for developing and commercialising hydrogen fuel technology. In doing so they ignore, wittingly or unwittingly, the fact that hydrogen cannot…