Energy department appears to favor hydrogen over wind and solar

 Washington Examiner:

The Department of Energy will push to cut the cost of producing low-carbon hydrogen by 80% in the next decade to tap into the versatile energy resource’s ability to curb emissions in the hardest-to-abate sectors.

Hydrogen is the first focus area of the Energy Department’s new Energy Earthshots Initiative that will marshal the agency’s scientific expertise and resources to accelerate breakthroughs in nascent clean energy technologies.

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND INDUSTRY ALIKE SEE HYDROGEN AS ‘SWISS ARMY KNIFE’ FOR ELIMINATING EMISSIONS

The agency said it aims to cut the cost of producing zero-carbon hydrogen from roughly $5-per-kilogram to $1-per-kilogram by 2030. By doing so, the Energy Department said it could prompt a five-fold increase in the demand for clean hydrogen produced with excess renewable energy, nuclear power, or natural gas with carbon capture.

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The good news is they apparently see wind and solar as too unreliable to be the primary source of energy.  The challenge is still going to be making hydrogen affordable.  If they can do that they may have something.  I do not think electric cars are the answer either.

While I have no current objection to hydrogen as a fuel, I think the proponents of a carbon-neutral fuel have overstated the problems with CO2 and have been serially wrong in their predictions of doom and gloom.

BTW:

Climate czar John Kerry wrong again: SD wind turbine plant to shut doors, 300 jobs lost

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