For an H2 industry to be helpful in reducing and eliminating CO2 emissions, Green H2 is the only way.

The fossil fuel industry has continued to spread mis-information to block a strong Green H2 industry from developing, but luckily Biden's IRA plan is attempting to assist the build-out we will need to accomplish quickly.

...that equipment will be in place and available to use the Green Hydrogen that is not yet being produced due to misinformation and other fossil fuel industry roadblocks.

US DOE: Gaseous hydrogen can be transported through pipelines much the way natural gas is today. Approximately 1,600 miles of hydrogen pipelines are currently operating in the United States. Owned by merchant hydrogen producers, these pipelines are located where large hydrogen users, such as petroleum refineries and chemical plants, are concentrated such as the Gulf Coast region.

Transporting gaseous hydrogen via existing pipelines is a low-cost option for delivering large volumes of hydrogen
https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-pipelines

The Table A.1.A 2024 World Energy Outlook Can Be Found Here:



World Energy Outlook 2024

Table A.1a: World energy supply Page 296.

This portion table shows the demand for primary energy, which the filthy fuel hydrogen is not. World Energy Demand is 642 Exajoules.

Further down, in the table, which I truncated to make fit into the graphics tools I use, there is this new addition to the table adding, just to make clear, how much energy is wasted making hydrogen so the fossil fuel industry can rebrand fossil fuels as "green."

Here is what it says in the table about the filthy fuel hydrogen, its size and how much energy is wasted to make it for fuel purposes. (It also shows how much energy is wasted processing biofuels.)



The headings are the same as in the full table above with respect to years of data collection as well as IEA soothsaying.

It is now 48 years since theInternational Journal of Hydrogen Energy began publication devoted to this energy shell game in 1976.

It appears that in 2023, nearly fifty years into the campaign to rebrand fossil fuels as "hydrogen" that the 1 EJ of energy that was represented by hydrogen is precisely represented by the amount of energy consumed to make it. The fact that the numbers seem equal is represented almost certainly by a rounding error. The soothsaying for the future shows that "by 2035" the hydrogen industry is predicted to consume twice as much primary energy is it provides. In 2040, when the IEA soothsaying predicts that hydrogen will provide 3 EJ out of a predicted 691 EJ World Energy Demand, it will consume 150% as much energy as it makes available.

One would hope that the soothsaying isn't correct. If, in 2040, we are only producing 45 EJ of World Energy Demand, the planet will be totally fucked.

The fact that the planet is already fucked, hasn't stopped the fossil fuel industry from running this half a century old bullshit advertising campaign to greenwash their products as "hydrogen."

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