Tag: Hydrogen
Imported Materials Are Manageable, Imported Energy Reprices Economies
Europe’s gas crisis in 2022 is often described as a supply shock driven by geopolitics, but that framing misses the core lesson. The crisis was not caused by import dependence in general, nor by shortages of industrial feedstocks. It was caused by reliance on an imported energy carrier that sat … [continued]
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Germany’s Hydrogen Strategy Delayed Electrification by Pulling the Workforce the Wrong Way
Germany’s hydrogen backbone with no customers and no suppliers has been examined from multiple angles in this series, starting with the pipeline from nowhere to nowhere itself and the energy and other demand flows that won’t materialize, then moving through Germany’s misguided analyses that led to it, the implications of … [continued]
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EU Cannot Afford to Pause Zero-Emission Heavy-Duty Charging Deployment
IRU, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) and T&E urge the European Commission to ensure continuity of EU funding for heavy-duty vehicle charging and hydrogen refuelling infrastructure, warning that a break in support in 2026–2027 would risk slowing the deployment of zero-emission vehicles. In a joint letter addressed to European Commission President … [continued]
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When Steel Outlives Strategy: The Climate Cost of Germany’s Hydrogen Pipeline
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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Pricing Fertilizer Emissions Cuts Climate Pollution Without Making Food Expensive
Pricing fertilizer emissions sounds like a recipe for more expensive food, but when the numbers are worked carefully, it turns out to be a policy that cuts emissions sharply while barely moving grocery prices. The reason is simple and counterintuitive. Fertilizer is a large share of farm costs and an … [continued]
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