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Turquoise hydrogen for the win

" Forget the Hindenburg. Ferrari already has. " Listening to Michael Fenton on Climate Chat this past Sunday, I had to think twice about penning a piece about something as complicated as replacing a fossil economy with green hydrogen. “Weather could blow down the whole city and they [TV news] wouldn’t tell you it is being caused by burning coal, oil and gas…. The public does not know what Net Zero is. It barely knows what carbon is. Few people even know what an emission is. A minority of Americans know what you mean when you say fossil fuels.” As far back as the 1960s, I recall people talking in publications like Popular Mechanics about the hydrogen economy. It always had an air of science fiction. Conventional wisdom was that the Hindenburg Disaster (the transatlantic airship that exploded in 1937) had poisoned the public mind towards hydrogen. The whole notion of a hydrogen economy traces to 1923, when the British scientist J.B.S. Haldane , became concerned for t

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