[LINK] All German petrol stations must offer electric car charging

[David Lochrin]

On 2020-06-11 15:53, Fernando Cassia wrote:

> There was a recent story I read about the fossil fuel industry allegedly being the big pushers for hydrogen, a pie in the sky dream whose only goal is to slow down the switch to EVs and renewable while they build the (impossible) hydrogen recharge infrastructure.

The fissil-fuel industry is into pipe dreams, such as carbon capture & storage.

However hydrogen (& oxygen) is very easy to extract by electrolysing H₂O, ideally using solar power, something I can remember my father demonstrating when I was probably about ten.

That can be used in a clean steel-making process; see for example:
   https://reneweconomy.com.au/nordic-steel-giant-to-use-renewable-hydrogen-to-produce-fossil-free-steel-by-2026-2026/  and for a lot of technical detail:
   https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/08/f54/fcto-h2-scale-kickoff-2018-8-chevrier.pdf

I think the CSIRO also has a process for transporting hydrogen in liquid form at normal temperature & pressure; it's liberated at point of use by a catalyst.

Cheers,
David Lochrin