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"The well-funded push to make Australia a green hydrogen superpower is shaping
up to be a costly economic mistake and a waste of the nation’s abundant
renewable energy resources, Rewiring Australia co-founder Saul Griffith has
warned.
Speaking at a parliamentary inquiry on Thursday, Griffith said Australia – with
its huge land mass and unparalleled solar and wind resources – has the “easiest
shot on goal” of almost any country in the world to become a renewable
superpower, but not through hydrogen.
“The idea that hydrogen will play a large role in the energy future does not
make economic or thermodynamic sense,” Griffith says in Rewiring Australia’s
written submission the Joint Standing Committee’s inquiry into Australia’s
transition to a green energy superpower.
“It will play a small role, but attempting to carve out a large role for it
represents a wasteful way to achieve clean energy goals.”
Griffith is not the first or only energy expert to question the green hydrogen
super-hype. The common theme among these critics, including
Bloomberg’s
Michael Liebreich, is that green hydrogen will play an important role, but only
in certain hard to abate sectors. For the rest, wind and solar and storage will
do the job.
And yet, this is far from the message we are getting from Australia’s
governments, and even energy market arbiters."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
