Source: EU colour-blind on hydrogen
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A spokesperson for Equinor, the Norwegian state-owned oil firm touting “blue hydrogen” in EU policymakers’ favourite newsletters, said that the EU will “need many forms of hydrogen with zero to low-carbon and environmental footprint.”
But, like Obama ignored the fact that oil is not solar, the EU is conflating blue hydrogen with green hydrogen, “low-carbon” with zero carbon. It’s not the only one, with the oil industry promoting this as a climate solution the world over.
In fact, one study suggests that producing blue hydrogen has a higher carbon footprint than burning methane gas for electricity. The industry claims it can capture 95% of the carbon dioxide from its production process but independent experts put that figure far lower.
There’s also the question of what to do with the carbon you capture. Equinor wants to bury it under the sea but that process takes a lot of energy and will the gas stay there or eventually leak into the atmosphere?
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