Category: Climate Crisis
From Optionality to Outcome: How Germany Can Reset Hydrogen Without Losing Face
Germany now has a pressurized segment of its hydrogen backbone that is physically complete and operationally empty. There are no connected suppliers feeding hydrogen into it, no contracted customers drawing hydrogen out, and no credible near-term pathway to change either of those facts. This is no longer a question of … [continued]
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Germany’s Audit Court Calls Time on Hydrogen Inevitability
The October 2025 special report from Germany’s Federal Audit Court, Implementation of the Federal Government’s Hydrogen Strategy, lands with unusual weight because it is not a policy critique or an academic intervention, but a statutory budgetary assessment delivered to Parliament. It evaluates the hydrogen strategy against the legal requirements of … [continued]
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When Europe’s Economic Institutions Step Away From Hydrogen
Germany’s Council of Economic Experts, working jointly with France’s Conseil d’analyse économique, has already stepped away from hydrogen as a broad energy carrier, and that shift sits uneasily alongside a 400 km pressurized segment of Germany’s hydrogen backbone with no suppliers and no customers. The joint guidance from these two … [continued]
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From Optimistic Models To Empty Pipelines: The Intellectual History Of Germany’s Hydrogen Backbone
Germany’s hydrogen backbone now exists as steel in the ground and pressurized pipe, but the more important infrastructure was laid long before any trench was dug. That infrastructure was intellectual. A long sequence of studies, models, and policy-facing analyses created the impression that large scale hydrogen for energy use was … [continued]
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Nessel lawsuit claims oil companies violating antitrust laws
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel alleges in a federal antitrust lawsuit filed Friday that oil giants are working as a “cartel” to slow the growth of renewable energy and electric vehicles.