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Steel Needs A Route Transition, Not A Hydrogen Story

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Steel decarbonization keeps being pulled into the wrong conversation. Call it a future hydrogen market, and the discussion moves quickly to electrolyzers, pipelines, storage caverns, offtake contracts, national hydrogen strategies, and industrial-policy speeches looking for a customer. That framing is convenient for hydrogen advocates, but it is not how the … [continued]

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Hydrogen Buses Work. That Is Not The Procurement Question.

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Hydrogen buses are real. They can carry passengers, complete routes, refuel, and operate in public transit fleets. That much has been demonstrated often enough that it is no longer the useful question. The useful question for transit agencies is whether hydrogen is a better procurement choice than battery-electric buses once … [continued]

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Cummins, Alstom, and the Long Tail of Hydrogen Mistakes

10 min read

Both Cummins and Alstom lost with hydrogen, but they lost in different ways, and that difference matters. Cummins spread capital and management attention across a broad set of hydrogen pathways, including fuel cells and electrolyzers, then ran into the market reality that hydrogen demand for energy applications was weaker, slower, … [continued]

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