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Breakingviews - Green hydrogen revolution risks dying of thirst - Reuters

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Terry Kallis cancelled development of a 6-gigawatt green hydrogen facility in South Australia in May. His Kallis Energy Investments encountered an insurmountable problem: a lack of water. It’s just one of the 680 or so large-scale hydrogen projects under consideration around the world, per the Hydrogen Council, which estimates some $700 billion of investment is needed by 2030 to hit net-zero emissions targets. Plenty of those are likely to die of thirst, too.

 

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Hydrogen, long seen as a theoretical if not practical alternative to petroleum-based transportation fuels, is once again having a day in the sun as industries promote “green hydrogen,” produced using renewable resources.

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