Tag: hydrogen
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Hydrogen – The Magic Rainbow Gas
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (May 19, 2022) — If you believe in the tooth fairy, or vote Green, you probably believe that hydrogen is the magic rainbow gas that will banish global warming, replace wicked hydro-carbons in electricity generation, fuel tomorrow’s trucks, planes and heavy equipment, and earn unlimited export…
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Not So Green
“POLITICALLY STRANDED ASSETS” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (Sep. 9, 2020) — To download this article with all illustrations click: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/not-so-green.pdf Solar energy is very dilute, so solar collectors usually cover huge areas of flat arable land, stealing farmland, starving wild herbs and grasses of sunlight and creating “Solar Deserts”. Not…
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More Useless Energy Policies
“CANBERRA’S THOUGHT BUBBLES” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (May 25, 2020) — The Australian Minister for Promoting Useless Energy thinks that hydrogen fuel, carbon capture and storage, soil carbon and biofuels are priorities for energy policy and greenhouse gas reduction. If that’s the best our leaders can come up with, Australia…
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Hydrogen Hype
“A NEGATIVE-SUM GAME” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (Feb. 14, 2020) — Dr Finkel (Australia’s Chief Scientist) is wrong – hydrogen will never be a “hero fuel source”. Australia has no gas wells producing hydrogen – every bit of hydrogen we use must be generated by electrolysis of water or manufactured…