Once considered a key technology in the green energy transition, companies are waking up and finding out that hydrogen isn’t the answer to the challenges posed by renewable energies such as wind and sun.
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“Instead of progress, disillusionment dominates. The EU in particular – especially Germany – is increasingly being criticized for its costly projects,” reports German online Blackout News. “Companies are pulling out”.
Hydrogen is expensive, hazardous and a real technical challenge that doesn’t promise to be economically feasible. The gas is metallurgically aggressive, highly flammable, explosive. It’s chemical properties make a comprehensive infrastructure difficult to manage. Moreover, producing green hydrogen is “barely affordable” and industries are reluctant to use the volatile gas because it risks being unprofitable.
High costs, low demand and political misplanning are currently jeopardizing the strategy, according to an analysis by Westwood Global Energy Group. “Only a fraction of the planned EU hydrogen pipeline is likely to be operational by 2030.”
Germany has funded an ambitious green hydrogen project in Namibia, in a protected desert area and now it may be demolished for port expansion as the country’s new president is reportedly reassessing the project and looking at a potential shift towards the established oil sector. Technical analyses indicate hydrogen is only suitable as a selective energy source.
Unless there is a major change of course, the EU’s hydrogen strategy risks being a costly failure.
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” Namibia’s new president** is reportedly reassessing the project …”
A web search brings up year-2023 high praise for the project. First two pages of a search on DuckDuckGo had no current (not happening) articles.
I didn’t bother trying to figure out why Germany was involved in such a project. Seems weird.
**Namibia’s new president is Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who was sworn in on March 21, 2025, making her the country’s first female president
It seems kind of stupid. We are surrounded by oceans and have access to breakthrough energy sources … easy to produce Hydrogen.
The energy required to extract, compress, transport and store hydrogen from seawater exceeds the net energy you obtain by its use as a fuel.
Excellent answer, thanks
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HYDROGEN is easy to obtain if they use breakthrough power technology already available to convert filtered ocean water into hydrogen and oxygen. They should stop with all the stupid, ignorant, reactionary ‘green’ ideologies.
Jordan Peterson: “Ideologies are simple ideas, disguised as science or philosophy, that purport to explain the complexity of the world and offer ‘remedies’ that will ‘perfect’ it. Ideologues are people who pretend they know how to “make the world a better place” before they’ve taken care of their own chaos within. Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologies are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexities of existence. Furthermore, when their social contraptions fail to fly, ideologues blame not themselves and the insufficient approach, but all who see through the simplifications.”
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