Granholm launches 'Earthshot' goal of reducing hydrogen energy cost to $1

TheHill ^ | 06/07/2021 | Rachel Frazin

[ChicagoConservative27]

The Energy Department announced on Monday that it was starting an “Earthshots” initiative to reduce the costs of clean energy within a decade — starting with its first goal of reducing the cost of clean hydrogen to $1 per kilogram.

The Energy Earthshots Initiative will seek to, within a decade, speed up breakthroughs in affordable and reliable clean energy, according to a department statement.

“The Energy Earthshots are an all-hands-on-deck call for innovation, collaboration and acceleration of our clean energy economy by tackling the toughest remaining barriers to quickly deploy emerging clean energy technologies at scale,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Another demented idea.

[left that other site]

Oh The Humanity!

[shanover]

She’s a genius!

[Mariner]

It costs more than that to pressurize it and store it.

She’s just stupid.

[catnipman]

“The Energy Earthshots are an all-hands-on-deck call for innovation, collaboration and acceleration of our clean energy economy by tackling the toughest remaining barriers to quickly deploy emerging clean energy technologies at scale,” “

these morons think that if they string together enough buzzwords, snap their fingers and carpet bomb with billions, that the laws of physics are just “remaining barriers” to be “tackled” ...

[BipolarBob]

I can top that. The sun is mostly hydrogen. We can just go there and get all the hydrogen we can carry and bring it back. There’s enough there for centuries of free hydrogen!

[jeffersondem]

In 1971 - fifty years ago - an environmental professor told his class windmills should be used to generate hydrogen that could then be piped, or otherwise collected, for use.

Seemed far fetched to those that heard it at the time. It would address the problem of storing wind energy for later use, but at what cost?

[Pollard]

The Energy Earthshots are an all-hands-on-deck call for innovation, collaboration and acceleration of our clean energy economy by tackling the toughest remaining barriers to quickly deploy emerging clean energy technologies at scale,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.

The Energy Earthshots are an all-hands-on-deck call for innovation, collaboration and acceleration of our clean energy economy by taking money from the middle class to pay for attempting to create our idea of a communist utopia.

[Red Badger]

The oceans are full of hydrogen......................

[Seruzawa]

First they need to figure out a way to even store it. Given that hydrogen escapes everything. Lol.

[LIConFem]

Not to mention the fact that it’s relatively low on BTUs, unless burned in pure oxygen.

[frank ballenger]

The sun is mostly hydrogen. We can just go there and get all the hydrogen we can carry and bring it back.

She can just go there....

Soon.

I suffered every day of her being governor of Michigan and I don't owe it to anybody to suffer with Whitmer or with the Pelosi House since 2018, the scams by Barr and Durham, or the stolen election since November. All of you bums get off my lawn.

[Zathras]

The biggest problem with H2 is leaks!
The molecule is so small, leaks are common, hard to find and maintain.
Probably not something you want in an car with all the vibration.

[rigelkentaurus]

I’ll take hydrogen embrittlement for $100 please.

[DaxtonBrown]

Gonna take a lot more coal plants to get hydrogen that cheap. We can do it!!!

[rellimpank]

—and most of the commentary after the article displays just how ignorance is extremely widespread—

[precisionshootist]

"The Energy Earthshots Initiative will seek to, within a decade, speed up breakthroughs in affordable and reliable clean energy"

Define "affordable".

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Is there some way of making a compound with hydrogen and carbon, that would have high energy density, be safe to store and transport and economical? I know if sounds far fetched, but it might be worth considering.

When my great-grandkids ask me what we did for lighting before candles, I can say “electricity”.

[D Rider]

Everybody knows that they do not make a seal that can completely contain hydrogen, right?

[Chode]

the DOE, that hasn’t produced one single unit of energy since it’s inception...