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When Steel Outlives Strategy: The Climate Cost of Germany’s Hydrogen Pipeline

When Steel Outlives Strategy: The Climate Cost of Germany’s Hydrogen Pipeline
9 min read

Germany’s 400 km hydrogen backbone segment is now pressurized, full of fossil hydrogen, and waiting. There are no meaningful suppliers connected to it and no contracted offtakers drawing molecules out. That fact alone makes it worth slowing down and doing the accounting carefully, because large infrastructure decisions do not become … [continued]

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Same Length, Different Logic: China’s Industrial Hydrogen Pipeline Versus Germany’s Backbone

Same Length, Different Logic: China’s Industrial Hydrogen Pipeline Versus Germany’s Backbone
11 min read

The comparison between Germany’s hydrogen backbone from nowhere to nowhere and China’s reported 1,000km-plus hydrogen pipeline keeps resurfacing, often framed as evidence that Germany is simply early rather than wrong. It is a fair question, because at a distance both projects appear similar. Both involve long-distance hydrogen pipelines. Both are … [continued]

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Europe Built Hydrogen Infrastructure Instead of the Power Grid It Needed

Europe Built Hydrogen Infrastructure Instead of the Power Grid It Needed
9 min read

The most important policy lesson from the 400 km European hydrogen backbone segment with no suppliers and no offtakers—a pipeline from nowhere to nowhere—I wrote about recently is that decarbonization succeeds or fails on demand realism, not technological aspiration. Europe knew, as early as the late 2000s, that deep electrification … [continued]

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