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(1,038 posts) Mon Dec 16, 2024, 06:12 PM Dec 16

Scotland's Bold Hydrogen Strategy: Pioneering the Future of Clean Energy

Scotland’s Bold Hydrogen Strategy: Pioneering the Future of Clean Energy

theogm.com | Tina Olivero | 12/16/24

Scotland has officially set its sights on becoming a global leader in hydrogen production and export with the unveiling of its groundbreaking new strategy, A Trading Nation: Realising Scotland’s Hydrogen Potential – A Plan for Exports. This ambitious blueprint positions the country as a front-runner in the clean energy revolution, paving the way for significant economic and environmental gains.

With its bold vision, Scotland aims to ignite global demand for hydrogen, build vital infrastructure, and establish itself as a key player in international energy markets—all while strengthening its domestic supply chain and exploring game-changing hydrogen pipelines to Europe and Ireland.

Driving Hydrogen Innovation: A Vision for 2045

The Scottish Government is committed to harnessing hydrogen as a cornerstone of its green energy future. Under the new strategy, Scotland has the potential to produce up to 3.3 million tonnes of green hydrogen annually by 2045—a volume equivalent to approximately 90% of the nation’s current energy needs.

Acting Energy Secretary Gillian Martin emphasized the transformative potential of hydrogen during a recent visit to Scottish firm Hydrasun. “Hydrogen is one of Scotland’s greatest industrial opportunities since oil and gas was discovered,” Martin stated. “It provides the government, industry, and investors with clarity in the direction we must all move in, with pace, if Scotland is to build a sustainable and successful hydrogen economy—while delivering a just transition for our energy sector.”...more
https://theogm.com/2024/12/16/scotlands-bold-hydrogen-strategy-pioneering-the-future-of-clean-energy/

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Scotland's Bold Hydrogen Strategy: Pioneering the Future of Clean Energy (Original Post) Caribbeans Dec 16 OP

So many golden opportunities the U.S. has just tossed away. Think. Again. Dec 16 #1

In 2045, the concentration of dangerous fossil fuel waste will have reached 500 ppm, in part because of the efforts... NNadir Dec 16 #2

Think. Again.

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1. So many golden opportunities the U.S. has just tossed away.

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2. In 2045, the concentration of dangerous fossil fuel waste will have reached 500 ppm, in part because of the efforts...

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Mon Dec 16, 2024, 07:12 PM

Dec 16

...to rebrand fossil fuels as "hydrogen," although to a minor extent, because as it has for roughly half a century, the hydrogen fantasy will still be "pie in the sky" bullshit everywhere on this planet.

Referring to the crude quadratic axis in the graphic above, one can make a rough model of the behavior of this system, using simple high school level calculus, by treating the rate of change in the rate of change - the change in the 52 week average comparators - as a second derivative with respect to time (in years), integrating twice, and using, as boundary conditions, the 1 year comparator, and the current reading. In my spreadsheet I do this automatically. If one solves the resulting equation using the quadratic formula to see when we will hit 500 ppm, one will see this should take place in 2046. (I will be dead then, and not live to see what little warnings I offered here.) The crude equation predicts that in 2050 the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste will be somewhere between 515 and 520 ppm.

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If there is hydrogen in Scotland in 2045, it will be available by exergy destruction driven by the steam reformation of dangerous natural gas, just as it is today, and bullshit from an acting minister in Scotland, soothsaying incompetently, will not change that fact.

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