What We Need to Do Now: A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth
by Chris Goodall · 30 Jan 2020 · 154pp · 48,340 words
hydrogen is effectively banned in the UK, but other countries allow up to 20 per cent. This would be an early and large market for green hydrogen produced from surplus electricity. Experiments currently being started by gas network operators eager to push the switch to hydrogen will confirm the feasibility and safety
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
by Rowan Hooper · 15 Jan 2020 · 285pp · 86,858 words
methane. A small amount of hydrogen is currently produced by electrolysis, but that process is itself powered by fossil fuels. What is needed is genuinely green hydrogen, where the electrolysis of water is powered by renewable energy, and we need this on a huge scale. The good news is that the technology
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ready – the hydrogen-driven transformation of the economy is already underway, albeit slowly. In Sheffield, for example, ITM Power has opened the world’s largest green hydrogen electrolysing plant. A modest (by our standards) investment in this area will help speed the transition. It is already as cheap to make hydrogen by
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
by Ed Conway · 15 Jun 2023 · 515pp · 152,128 words
carbon dioxide. However, there are a few catches. The first is that this green steel needs a hefty amount of hydrogen to work, and producing green hydrogen without burning fossil fuels is an expensive process. The second is that you cannot throw any iron ore into it. Instead, you need pellets with
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time those tanks helped to make fuel from coal. Then they helped to make it from crude oil. Now they were being repurposed to hold green hydrogen, being created at a bank of electrolysers just around the corner. It’s an ambitious, untested plan – perhaps overambitious. And this is just one refinery
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. In other words, rather than using coal or gas to make our fertilisers, in future we could feed with the world with ammonia made from green hydrogen, created from wind power. However, using electrolysis to create hydrogen is eye-wateringly inefficient. Consider the biggest nitrate factory in the UK: that old ICI
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air and hydrogen into ammonia, all takes place in a few tall vessels, which occupy less space than a medium-sized office complex. Creating the green hydrogen you would need to feed this fertiliser plant would consume the entire output of what was, at the time of writing, the world’s biggest
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
by Jeremy Rifkin · 27 Sep 2011 · 443pp · 112,800 words
/library/publications/the-world-factbook/. 56.European Parliament. (2007, May 14). Written Declaration Pursuant to Rule 116 of the Rules of Procedure on Establishing a Green Hydrogen Economy and a Third Industrial Revolution in Europe through a Partnership with Committed Regions and Cities, SMEs and Civil Society Organisations. Retrieved from http://hyfleetcute
Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
by Alan Weisman · 21 Apr 2025 · 599pp · 149,014 words
messier: it’s done by blasting natural gas with steam, which burns even more carbon. Using solar or wind energy to power electrolysis is called green hydrogen—but although touted as a clean pathway to decarbonizing, producing renewable electricity to make hydrogen fuel, which is then used to make electricity again—isn
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in size as more students, especially more women, want to be part of history—and of a future. Ramping up clean fusion could limitlessly electrolyze green hydrogen, to replace the mostly gray, carbon-intensive hydrogen from methane currently on the market. “An even wilder dream,” says Whyte, “would be powering atmospheric carbon
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://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920379615302337. St. John, Jeff. “The Problem with Making Green Hydrogen to Fuel Power Plants.” Canary Media, October 10, 2023. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/hydrogen/the-problem-with-making-green-hydrogen-to-fuel-power-plants. Talk to a Geek. “Brandon Sorbom Explains MIT’s ARC Fusion Reactor
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, 21–24, 25–28, 274–75, 390–92, 396–97 Mesopotamian Revitalization Project, 27–28 methane and carbon credits, 359 and climate activism, 380, 385 green hydrogen as replacement, 102 and Haber-Bosch process, 41 and Iraqi oil infrastructure, 6, 23 and meat production, 38, 241, 275, 286 and positive feedback loops
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, 384 soil microbes, 41, 63, 227–28 solar power and agrivoltaics, 261, 262 and climate activism, 153–54, 156 and floating cities, 322, 326 and green hydrogen, 86 and Iraq, 25 and Ithaca’s Green New Deal, 317 military applications, 337 peer-to-peer systems, 209–20 and progress of power alternatives
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · 17 Sep 2024 · 588pp · 160,825 words
technologies we need to decarbonize our economy.[*105] And now the CREO community is trying to repeat what it did with solar with advanced nuclear, green hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuels, and carbon capture and utilization. And we are starting to think about how we adapt to climate change while mitigating greenhouse gases
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of it’s gray, produced from natural gas.[*107] But there are already announced projects that could produce up to 10 million tons of clean, green hydrogen by 2030, mostly made using an electrolyzer to convert clean electricity into hydrogen—that technology was invented well before World War II. We have the
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, 273 greenhouse effect. See global warming greenhouse gases, 16n key emissions sources, 22–23, 34, 56–57, 80, 88 See also carbon emissions; global warming green hydrogen/hydrogen fuels, 184–86, 187, 336 green infrastructure, 92 Green New Deal, 49, 149, 222n, 283–301, 305, 306–7 Gunn-Wright on the framework
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utility commission • net zero • durability • circularity • scope 3 emissions • deep decarbonization • pre-competitive cooperation • enough • subsidies • carbon tax • philanthropy • investment • green capitalism • leadership • electric vehicles • green hydrogen • nuclear power • fusion energy • union labor culture • Hollywood • rom-com • Scully Effect • democracy • local news • solutions journalism • producer responsibility • education • organizing • youth climate movement • climate
Investing to Save the Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference
by Alice Ross · 19 Nov 2020 · 197pp · 53,831 words
that it would use the money to build Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery plant, to begin production in 2021. Some people are investing in green hydrogen batteries. Green hydrogen is made by converting wind or solar electricity into hydrogen through electrolysis, while blue hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels. In 2019, Trafigura, one
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of the world’s top commodity trading houses, took a stake in German start-up Hy2gen AG, which builds green hydrogen production facilities. Yet other investors warn that hydrogen fuel cell technology is an area where there is a lot of ‘hype’. Christian Roessing, manager of
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, 59, 60 batteries 15, 22, 113, 115–16, 128, 172; battery infrastructure 128; battery swapping 128, 139; charging 22, 113, 128, 130, 139–40, 203; green hydrogen 138; lithium-ion 115–16, 136, 137; role of 136–8 ‘best in class’ companies 7, 10, 92, 100, 134, 161–2, 176 Beyond Carbon
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
by Gaia Vince · 22 Aug 2022 · 302pp · 92,206 words
by reasonable taxes. Instead, private jets should be banned unless they are electric. In the future, synthetic aviation fuels made from captured carbon dioxide and green hydrogen could bring a renaissance in flight. Airships, or blimps, could also have a role in our northern world, helping transport cargo to the cities and
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
by Greta Thunberg · 14 Feb 2023 · 651pp · 162,060 words
in off-shore locations. Technology is also making it increasingly possible to have mobile offshore power plants, which reduce NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) complaints. / Green hydrogen Hydrogen is an electricity source and a fuel which leaves only water behind when used in a fuel cell. However, hydrogen largely does not exist
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energy solution today. But it can also be made from water, using renewable energy such as wind and solar in the process. This is called green hydrogen and it can be used as an alternative to fossil fuels in certain circumstances, for example where the energy source can’t be electrified or
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where the energy needs to be stored for a longer time period than is efficient for a battery. The problem, however, is that green hydrogen requires an abundance of cheap renewable energy, something that is not likely to be seen in the near future. Making hydrogen through electrolysis using nuclear
The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
by Jeremy Rifkin · 9 Sep 2019 · 327pp · 84,627 words
,” Nature Climate Change 8, no. 7 (2018): 588–93, doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0182-1. 2. “Declaration of the European Parliament on Establishing a Green Hydrogen Economy and a Third Industrial Revolution in Europe Through a Partnership with Committed Regions and Cities, SMEs and Civil Society Organisations,” 2007, https://eur-lex
Abundance
by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson · 18 Mar 2025 · 227pp · 84,566 words