Reducing methane losses would help lower the natural-gas industry’s emissions. But there is a world of difference between lower emissions and zero emissions
produced in the process. Because the carbon in the biomass came from the atmosphere—the biomass grew by means of photosynthesis—this reduces the atmospheric carbon-dioxide level. “Direct air capture” uses huge banks of fans and chemical engineering to pull COout of the atmosphere.
Unfortunately, these policies are poorly defined. A knowledgeable European government official who specialises in hydrogen insists that the war in Ukraine will “speed up the global market for green gases and derivatives.” Push him hard on future-proofing, though, and he throws up his hands: “At the moment it’s at the level of political wishes, not technological details. It’s not clear how it will work.
The alternative is a two-stage greening, dependent on “blue hydrogen” made by reacting natural gas with steam, keeping the hydrogen thus produced and disposing of the concomitant CO. A two-stage blue-hydrogen strategy for Europe would quickly replace Russian natural gas with imports from elsewhere, mostly in the form of, and, over time, it would use more of that natural gas in the form of blue hydrogen. Thus it hopes to achieve both climate and energy security.
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