From the Editor: Carbon-neutral nirvana? [Gas in Transition]

From the Editor: Carbon-neutral nirvana? [Gas in Transition]

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From the Editor: Carbon-neutral nirvana? [Gas in Transition]

Summary

Widespread deployment of wind and solar, and now a focus on hydrogen, have all been promised as the keys to unlock a low-carbon future. But many of these projects are facing the same barriers that have beset oil and gas investments for decades. [Gas in Transition, Volume 3, Issue 5] by: Dale Lunan

Successive COP gatherings dating back as far as the Kyoto Protocol in the late 1990s have brought forward all manner of ideas for industrialised economies to tackle climate change. In broad terms, virtually all of these ideas require a combination of increased investments in renewable energy, largely solar and wind, dramatically reduced – or in fact – eliminated investments in conventional fossil fuels like coal, or and natural gas, and improved efforts at energy efficiency. More recently, many in the climate change cabal have latched on to hydrogen as something close to a silver bullet: i...