The construction of power plants that initially burn natural gas and later transition to burning clean hydrogen is being pushed by European utilities. Nevertheless, the technology they rely on wastes energy and invites charges of “greenwashing.”
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According to experts, the carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen molecules will serve as the cornerstone of the EU’s future low-carbon synthetic fuel sector.
Germany will need to buy green hydrogen from other nations in the future energy grid. The Research Center Jülich (FZJ) has constructed an African hydrogen atlas and investigated the possibilities of the African republics south of the Sahara.
According to a hydrogen expert based in the UK, the idea of using green hydrogen to “green” up long distance trucking is absurd and “totally wrong.”
Alparslan Bayraktar, the Turkish Deputy Energy Minister, recently attended the ninth Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, where he announced Turkey’s detailed plan to reduce its CO2 emissions by 2053.
The country is set to become the first in Europe to extract natural hydrogen, an element that accumulates in the depths of the Earth, which could position Spain as a major European supplier of sustainable hydrogen.
China’s National Energy Administration Administrator, Zhang Jinhua, recently paid a visit to Namibian President Hage Geingob to establish cooperation in the production of green hydrogen. Namibia hopes to become a leading producer of green hydrogen to attract investment from global renewable energy leader China.
At the DEKRA Lausitzring, the DWV HyMobility Commission presented its inaugural key issues paper on the transformation of mobility in Germany.
In the Midwest, scientists have discovered a promising subsurface area that may contain fuel reserves.
The European Parliament’s Industry Committee rejected Markus Pieper’s motion on Tuesday, which claimed that the EU’s planned rules for renewable hydrogen were too “restrictive.” Markus Pieper is a German Conservative MEP.
