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(975 posts) Thu Dec 28, 2023, 05:14 PM Dec 2023

Plug switches on Amazon's first on-site electrolyser in Colorado

Plug switches on Amazon's first on-site electrolyser in Colorado

RenewablesNow.com | Martina Markosyan | Dec 28, 2023

US hydrogen technology company Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ: PLUG) has switched on the first on-site electrolyser system owned by Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), a 1-MW machine located at the US e-commerce giant's fulfilment centre in Aurora, Colorado.

The proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyser is producing low-carbon hydrogen which will be compressed on-site and stored in a gaseous storage tank. Its output will be used to fuel more than 225 hydrogen fuel cell-powered forklift trucks at the site, having an overall capacity to support up to 400 such vehicles.

Plug was in charge of the design, installation, commissioning and maintenance services for the electrolyser and the storage.

Plug and Amazon have partnered on the deployment of more than 17,000 fuel cells to replace batteries in forklifts in more than 80 fulfilment centres in North America. For most of the sites, the hydrogen is produced elsewhere and transported by trucks to an on-site storage and dispensing system....more
https://renewablesnow.com/news/plug-switches-on-amazons-first-on-site-electrolyser-in-colorado-844334/

Anyone think Amazon doesn't know what Green Hydrogen is?

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Plug switches on Amazon's first on-site electrolyser in Colorado (Original Post) Caribbeans Dec 2023 OP

More dishonest advertising. The carbon intensity in the Western Mountain Region is some of the highest in the US. NNadir Dec 2023 #1

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1. More dishonest advertising. The carbon intensity in the Western Mountain Region is some of the highest in the US.

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Thu Dec 28, 2023, 08:21 PM

Dec 2023

Electricity Map Western Area Power Administration Colorado

The 12 month carbon intensity of that power grid is 763 grams CO₂/kWh, given its high dependence on coal. That is, to be sure, a disgusting number.

Of course the fossil fuel sales people who wish to rebrand their product as "hydrogen," couldn't care less about the environment or climate change. They're in the position of having sold the big lie about hydrogen being "green." It isn't green; it encourages the use of more fossil fuels via exergy destruction.

A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.

The general acceptance of this lie is a measure of successful marketing, but it is also a measure of a dearth of decency on the part of the salespeople in question.

Wasting electricity - already a thermodynamically degraded form of energy - to make hydrogen for advertising purposes anywhere should disgust any environmentalist.

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