"the cars can be taken down to the Japanese company's hydrogen refuelling station in Melbourne's west, just a 20-minute drive from the company's headquarters"
"Filling up takes less than five minutes"
So we're at 45min to fill up which is longer than a modern EV's 10-80% charge time?
"Hydrogen refuelling stations opened recently include a $2.5 million facility"
@Rjdlandscapes the real issue is the electricity required to produce the hydrogen. At this stage of the transition we don’t have enough to electrify everything so wasting power by using a huge amount to produce hydrogen for vehicles won’t advance the transition. #ElectrifyEverything#greenhydrogen#hydrogenvehicles
I know that I have a steep hill to climb in order to help Carbon Dioxide Removal #CDR recover from the damage the #FossilFools and just plain grifters have done to the reputation of Direct Air Capture #DAC.
I'm hoping that the tangible product #BioChar can help to convince people to reconsider DAC for CDR.
The demonstrated recalcitrance of terra preta and ability of any and every farmer/gardener to manufacture and sequester it makes it one of my favorite approaches. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh8499
Victoria’s gas distribution networks continue to hype "green gas". They're claiming that they will blend hydrogen into the fossil gas supply, but cannot say how this will make fossil gas clean, or give a timeline, or reveal how much it will cost consumers to renovate their homes to install pipes and cooking/heating appliances that are capable of handling hydrogen.
Hint: it takes only a Chemistry-101 level of understanding to see this is technically extremely difficult to practically impossible, in addition to being economically unfeasible, and too slow to meet decarbonisation targets to tackle climate change.
In other words, this is more lies from the increasingly desperate fossil fuel industry in a bid to prolong their planet-destroying business model. The government should step in to tell the fossil fuel companies to STFU, take their decades of profits and die quietly.
Good step. These are the kinds of changes we need to be making. Everywhere.
Not surprisingly, developers are moaning.
Colorado is rolling out model building codes that will make new construction ready for solar panels and electric vehicles and appliances, all intended to help the state cut greenhouse gas emissions and make the transition to renewable energy.
The codes will apply to new buildings and ones that undergo substantial renovation.
“While we share the goals of reducing energy use and emissions, we must balance these goals with all housing costs,” Ted Leighty, CEO of the Colorado Association of Home Builders
It’s much cheaper to make a new home electric-ready rather than retrofit a building. [W]iring new homes for solar and electric power costs hundreds of dollars compared to thousands of dollars to do it later.
Have you ever worked with compressed hydrogen in your life?
If not than please don't recommend for it to become a widespread occupational hazard. It's a difficult molecule to work with in my experience.
Yes, it will probably find some use as we transition off of fossil fuels, but we should try to keep its use to the bare minimum and #ElectrifyEverything else using #Batteries
My community of Oak Park, Illinois was the first in the Midwest to mandate electric infrastructure in all new construction -- electric heating, cooking, etc. -- as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. #ClimateChange#ElectrifyEverything
US Oil producers withheld prod. to DRIVE UP OIL PRICES BY COORDINATING WITH #OPEC.
-h/t M Stoller
Exxon is set to close its $60B deal for Pioneer following an agreement with #antitrust enforcers not to add fmr Pioneer Chief Exec Sheffield to its BOD.
@KimPerales
Fossil fuel industry executives want to get Joe Biden out of office. They know that high oil and gas prices cause broad inflationary pressures.
Trump's morning courthouse campaign rant tried to highlight inflation as killing the USA. The GOP has basically lost immigration as an issue and the economy is going great, so inflation is about all they've got to try to convince Americans to vote for them. Good time to #ElectrifyEverything
Green hydrogen will be useful for making steel, and possibly for fueling aircraft, but otherwise, why would you do it? We have the opportunity to be free of a material need, but various billionaires want us to keep buying a 'stuff' that can be doled out at a rate that suits the supplier (artificial scarcity - see OPEC and Putin and our mysterious inflation problem). Electrify everything!
@mentallyalex
Since it's electric you'll already have 240 V going there.
As to getting some consumer insight on this major purchase, I'd have to recommend that foul site. A ton of stuff just came up when I put "new induction range" into a search there.
Regrettably, most of the #ElectrifyEverything crew is still on that damn website.
I recently bought an electric chainsaw. I’m really liking how easy it is to use and maintain. One thing I hadn’t thought of is that it still needs some fossil fuels (for now) in the form of chain oil, but it’s much quieter, easy to start, and has no stinky fumes. #RuralLiving#ElectrifyEverything
More good #ClimateProgress news as EV sales are sizzling in Germany. EVs were 37% of sales in August, up 78% compared to August 2022.
Fully electric vehicles were 32% of sales! Germany is 5th largest auto market in world. China is the biggest auto market, twice USA's, which is the 2nd.
"Clean Coal" is a furphy, and it's looking like "Clean Hydrogen" is unattainable. In reality, practically all hydrogen made today is extracted from fossil fuels, or is made from water by electrolysis that's powered by a non-renewable source of electricity.
Some people talk about "Blue hydrogen" and claim they're cracked the secret of making it in commercial volumes at a price that's competitive with renewables, but they're not being honest with you about the cost or the quality of their product. Proponents claim that coal — such as Victoria's incredibly dirty, low-quality, high-pollutant brown coal — can be transformed into "Brown Hydrogen" or "Black Hydrogen" by capturing the carbon liberated during the hydrogen extraction process using Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Same goes for "Blue Hydrogen" that's extracted from fossil gas.
They're sorta correct, in the sense that you can get out hydrogen. But if you blink you'll miss seeing where the Carbon goes. By then, they'll attempt to scratch off the label to rebrand their dirty hydrogen as "Green Hydrogen".
Herein lies the scam: they're saying is can be done cleanly. The problem is that they're using CSS as part of the process. It would be nice if CCS worked at an industrial scale at any price, but it doesn't. Countless millions of dollars have been poured by governments around the world into CCS pilot-plants at fossil fuel companies. The fossil fuel companies have all pocketed the money and failed to produce results.
Scratch the surface of any hydrogen-bro, and you'll find a hydrocarbon-bro who's deliberately propping-up the unsustainable coal/gas/petrol industry or is an unwitting fool who's science-illiterate.
Pro-hydrogen tech bros will have a sook over this article, but reality has a way of asserting itself against their inane arguments. They're a sad bunch who like to think they're doing something good for the environment but they're in denial and cannot accept they've been sucked-in by greenwashing of the fossil fuel lobby who're trying to prolong the use of methane.
Good! We hire landscapers to do regular maintenance. And I look forward to helping fund their equipment replacement to no longer use gas powered tools.
State air pollution officials are likely to vote by the end of the year on a 2025 ban on the sale of push or hand-held, gasoline-powered lawn equipment in nine Front Range counties with ozone problems, after a key regional advisory council recommended the bar as an effective strategy.
The Regional Air Quality Council’s policy recommendation also wants to ban institutions like schools or parks from using existing hand-held gas equipment in the summer months starting in 2025, and a summer ban for all commercial landscapers beginning in 2026.
President Joe Biden's administration has a goal of a carbon-free power sector by 2035, in order to fight climate change. To meet that target, the country needs to more than double regional transmission capacity and expand interregional transmission capacity more than fivefold.
The FERC's rule on regional transmission planning and cost allocation has been under development for nearly two years.
It was a serious PITA to get our induction cooktop — we had to get an electrician and someone to cut our granite countertop—but every time I see one of these articles, I'm so glad we did. And lots of folks won't have all the trouble that we did.
This is the kind of analysis we need: Hannah Ritchie's deep dive on #substack into the availability of minerals for the #GreenTransition.
Tl;dr ? We have more than enough to be able to decarbonise the electricity supply, but there are some important nuances when it comes to eg #EVs
Useful idiots and Republicans in general will try to use Biden's pause for new LNG export terminal permitting as a political weapn against him this year.
Except because of #ClimateProgress the European Union’s demand for liquefied natural gas, which provided a key lifeline during the energy crisis, will likely peak this year as the region accelerates its renewables transition, according to the bloc’s energy regulator. #ElectrifyEverything#LNG