As the Biden administration gets ready to push offshore wind in the Gulf of Mexico, fossil fuel companies wonder what's in it for them.
, it has the potential to reduce the state’s carbon emissions by as much as 68%. Louisiana state representative Joseph Orgeron, a maritime specialist, says the vast majority of developers he’s talked to are proposing mixing hydrogen with natural gas to ship it to shore. “It could be injected in the existing natural gas pipelines along with other natural gas coming to shore and then extracted on the other end,” he tellsSuch a move would make the cost of producing hydrogen less expensive.
The Sierra Club only supports the use of green hydrogen—hydrogen made through electrolysis that is powered by renewable energy. Even in the case of green hydrogen, other conditions must be met for its use to be a good idea: 2. Green hydrogen should not be used to justify a build out of facilities that otherwise increase pollution or fossil fuel use.
“If you have a turbine producing electricity, the cheapest and best use of that electricity is going to be using it directly for things electricity is already used for as opposed to converting it to hydrogen,” Warren Leon, executive director for Clean Energy States Alliance, tellsPart of the rationale for using electricity from offshore wind platforms to make hydrogen is that there will be so much of the stuff, a lot of it will go to waste, so it is better to put it to productive use despite...
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