Let me guess, we don't care what the other 85% is in the "drill baby, drill" industry, do we? Methane? Carbon Dioxide?
Who cares as long as we can drill like the demon!
The fossil fuel industry, including the part greenwashing fossil fuels as "hydrogen," is pretty transparent, every time, all the time.
The reported range of this "massive" is between six million and 250 million tons, which is pretty big variation.
The energy content of hydrogen when it is used to deplete oxygen is 33 kWh/kg which works out to 120 MJ/kg.
At the upper limit, 250 million tons is 250 billion kg, meaning that the total energy that might be released were this hydrogen mined in a stupid exercise in consuming the world's resources as quickly as possible, would be about 0.030 Exajoules on a planet that is currently consuming 642 Exajoules (as of 2023) according to the following table, which estimates how "big" the hydrogen "energy" industry is likely to be in some magical future (and how much energy it will waste)
IEA World Energy Outlook 2024
Table A.1a: World energy supply Page 296.
We're saved I guess.
The fossil fuel industry never fails to encourage magical thinking in greenwashing itself.
"White Hydrogen" fantasies are designed to encourage the "drill, baby, drill" mentality.
The bullshit never stops, especially as we have a credulous media to hand it out.
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