Efforts are underway to develop an industry for a fuel that could one day enable us to fly without the guilt of destroying the planet with dirty emissions. The world needs to de-carbonize – and it needs to do so fast in order to avoid planetary disaster. In the search for cleaner alternative fuels, many are pinning their hopes on Hydrogen. Although its production still overwhelmingly relies on burning fossil fuels, proponents point to the fact that the only byproducts of consuming it are heat and water. In Europe, lawmakers are keen to harness its power too. Scotland in particular sees huge potential in exporting the fuel – especially given the availabilty of wind power, which would enable it to produce the fuel cleanly.
Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Energy Neil Gray is hoping to drum up support for his country’s Hydrogen ambitions and distance himself from British Prime Minister Richi Sunak’s recent decision to weaken the UK’s climate goals.
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Recycled earth2😷
Target of 2040 ? ! Says all why Germany is losing, target 2025 and make it happen
Energy contained in H2 is 1/6 of a carbon fuel. So no option! Especially not on long flights.
We need e-fuels
Thank you to this DW presenter for correctly referring to my country, Scotland, as a 'country' and not part of England or the so called 'UK'.
Unlike the English mouthpiece @ssholes the BBC, who refuse to do so even in their damned weather reports!
We are not 'the north', we are not 'north England' and we are NOT a fkng 'REGION, we are a country in our own right!
Thank you, DW, for that respect.
Hydrogen fuel cells are inherently dangerous.
They should not be used in cars or civilian products.
Hydrogen is very flammable and a tank of it is extremely dangerous.
For an aircraft is may make sense since the aviation industry is so safe and protected but for other applications it could be an issue.
The world doesn't need to de-carbonize to save the planet from disaster, society will collapse soon and carbon emissions will be a thing of the past. Nature Bats Last.
SE players are specialists in this
hydrogen is explosive but so are the fossil fuels
Just build a 400km/h Shinkansen rail across Europe and you don't need regional airplanes. Or buy Russian gas instead of spending top dollar on pointless hydrogen projects.
Hydrogen flame is invisible. And it can catch on fire by contacting with oxygen which produces knallgas. Another words, everytime there is a puncture or slight leak going on it will explode. I dare eu to make hydrogen airplanes. It will be so much fun.
"Water vapor is Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas." xd
I've been hearing about hydrogen for 30 years and it got nowhere yet
The volumetric energy of liquid hydrogen would probably require half of the passenger space doubling the price of a ticket alone assuming that the cost would be the same as kerosene per KJ of energy. I can only see reclaiming carbon dioxide to make kerosene as the only economical way for passenger aircraft.
Europe has to take the lead on this as the Americans are too conflicted and have too much money tied up in the production and sale of oil.
In the fossil fuel economy we are using on Nature's savings account. People has always done that, lived on Nature's abundance, fish in seas, forests to be sued as timber, and then we discover the combustion engine. We prosper not because of our ingenuity, but because Nature has saved huge amounts for us. We need to put it back if Nature is to remain fairly stable.
There is NO future for hydrogen in transportation. It is dirtier than diesel as 99% is made from steam reformed (un)natural gas, the actually clean hydrogen is a miniscule % of the used gas and uses enormous amounts of power. To go via hydrogen is horribly inefficient when you compare to using the power directly or via batteries (todays cells). It is better to use rape seed oil to replace the jet fuel as it is carbon neutral and nearly identical to diesel/jet fuel chemically. Investing in hydrogen (outside of steel production) is a certain loss of invested money, don´t do it.
Keep making excuses for blowing up Nord stream and cheap oil! 😂
We all need to get on with it.
What is the role of Frauenhofers powerpaste in this? Their production capablities had been increased somewhat it was reported, but still need to be increased substantially for their concept to take root.
rich country ruin the earth
CO2 is absolutely clean, we drink it with soda.
EU H2 agan..didn't hydrogen advocates lose their jobs when tesla broke through,they promised a bright hydrogen future by 2020
Does anyone remember Hindenburg?
This is about making a new commodity of Hydrogen to replace oil. It is neither clean or sustainable unless there's 200% renewable geberation capacity in the electric grid.
Long duration battety storage (far from lithium) is key. Such as flow or rust batteries.
Meanwhile in America …
Liquifying hydrogen is very energy intensive process. Have to know much net energy is consumes for the liquid hydrogen flight.
Techno-solutionists seem to care more about flying for holidays – most humans on the planet have never taken a plane – than feeding the world or heating/cooling homes. Hydrogen is also so inefficient that the little energy it will produce is going to be used for essential stuff like in the industry for public infrastructures and in construction. So DW News, let's be more critical instead of praising what are still ineffective technologies that have yet to be carbon-free.
And long distance travels are going to be much less common in the next decades and will instead be done on boats, as they were mainly done until the 60s when the rise of commercial air travels happened.
So while it's good to research any energy source, flying is certainly not a priority.
Hydrogen is a deadend. This technology is not viable at all. Super flamable, explosive, very volume-taking, extremely leaky and requiring super chill tempretures to liquify and hold. And furthermore there is no clean energoeffective way how to mine it (i.e. acquiring it has a very low kpi of energy convertion). Total impasse. Synthetic methanol or ethanol is the future
Water vapor is confirmed green house gas confirmed even by NASA.
NOOOOOOOO!!!! Electricity and batteries are far simpler and more efficient and less monopoly in electricity production (more options)!! Hydrogen – monopoly over the people and overcomplicated engines. Transportation with the increasing appearance of electronics in them (computers – mobile phones on wheels), the drive system needs to be simplified. Comparison like Nokia, Blackberry and the arrival of Samsung and iPhone!
Joke story. Heard it for the past 50 years. Never happens. Hydrogen is only good if you had 1/2 part Oxygen to it.
"You have to make it before you can use it — generally by extracting hydrogen from fossil fuels, or by using electricity to split it from water." And electricity is generated by what boys and girls? Anyone? Right Billy, Natural gas. So we will use natural gas to produce another gas to use for energy. And just think how making hydrogen from water to replace fossil fuel will help the worldwide water shortage! No matter what, the oil companies win.
Anyone who does not think there are many clean and cheap ways to produce energy that are sitting on shelves because they would hurt the money made by billionaires, must be a total fool.
Is green hydrogen like Clean Coal?
We don't need to decarbonize, we just need to start adapting to the new normal.
The EU cannot compete on a global stage with its massive state overheads and waste, so they better develop their own EVERYTHING economy and fast.