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Today @WWF_Australia has released its Hydrogen Position Paper! This builds on our work advocating for a Renewable Hydrogen stimulus measure as part of our #RenewableRecovery campaign.
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https://www.wwf.org.au/ArticleDocuments/843/Energising%20the%20Economy%20with%20Renewable%20Hydrogen%20-%20Hydrogen%20Position%20Paper%20-%20WWF%20Australia.pdf.aspx?OverrideExpiry=Y
Check-it out
THREAD with toplines
https://www.wwf.org.au/ArticleDocuments/843/Energising%20the%20Economy%20with%20Renewable%20Hydrogen%20-%20Hydrogen%20Position%20Paper%20-%20WWF%20Australia.pdf.aspx?OverrideExpiry=Y
If you aren't an energy nerd or have friends that aren't but want to get their heads around hydrogen, I have written a blog explaining what all the hydrogen hype is about. https://www.wwf.org.au/news/blogs/hydrogen-why-all-the-hype
The very excellent @MichaelM_ACT has done a write-up of @WWF_Australia's Hydrogen Paper in @renew_economy https://reneweconomy.com.au/why-australias-hydrogen-industry-should-be-renewables-only-98574/
So the toplines in the paper:
1. Hydrogen is an existing global industry used to produce fertilizer, explostives and in the chemical industry more broadly. Hydrogen from coal and gas are mature technologies and account for ~1% of global carbon pollution (Source: @WoodMackenzie)
1. Hydrogen is an existing global industry used to produce fertilizer, explostives and in the chemical industry more broadly. Hydrogen from coal and gas are mature technologies and account for ~1% of global carbon pollution (Source: @WoodMackenzie)
2. Hydrogen will be absolutely essential for addressing climate change but a) renewable hydrogen is the only source that is zero emissions and b) is the only form likely to have a significant learning curve/cost reduction at the scale required.
Source: COAG Energy Council, 2019
Source: COAG Energy Council, 2019
3. Australia has a huge comparative advantage due to our world-class solar and wind resources and access to land. Australia's renewable hydrogen will likely be some of the cheapest in the world.
Source: @BloombergNEF
Source: @BloombergNEF
4. While #renewablehydrogen is essential for a net zero emission world, we should target it's use to processes and places (sectors and countries) that can't easily be electrified.
E.g. compare the efficiency of an electric car to a hydrogen fuel cell car. Source: @reneworgau
E.g. compare the efficiency of an electric car to a hydrogen fuel cell car. Source: @reneworgau
5. Sectors we should proactively target #renewable hydrogen in the short-term:
a) Decarbonising the existing hydrogen industry (ammonia, fertilizer, explosives etc)
b) Hydrogen for trucking, particularly mining trucks for remote mines. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-06-19/pilbara-yara-engie-trial-aims-make-sustainable-fertiliser-green/12340826
a) Decarbonising the existing hydrogen industry (ammonia, fertilizer, explosives etc)
b) Hydrogen for trucking, particularly mining trucks for remote mines. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-06-19/pilbara-yara-engie-trial-aims-make-sustainable-fertiliser-green/12340826
6. In the longer term we need to be commercialising renewable hydrogen for:
c) Steel, cement, alumina and other metal refining
d) Use in deep-ocean/long-haul shipping (particularly green ammonia)
e) Countries that can't easily electrify (e.g. Singapore)
c) Steel, cement, alumina and other metal refining
d) Use in deep-ocean/long-haul shipping (particularly green ammonia)
e) Countries that can't easily electrify (e.g. Singapore)
