Slide from ISGF India utility professional seminar on hydrogen for energy by Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist, TFIE Strategy

Hydrogen for Energy Serves Fossil Fuel Interests Not Climate Change or Economy

Slides, transcript and video from India utility professionals seminar

Michael Barnard
The Future is Electric
35 min readDec 9, 2024

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The long-running seminar series for India’s utility professionals through the India Smart Grid Forum closed with hydrogen. The hype glitter is starting to tarnish, but there is still a lot of substance-less shiny noise around the molecule. To that end, I stepped through the challenges and why hydrogen is virtually always a more expensive choice than existing, commercialized alternatives for energy applications.

The video presentation is embedded below, and a lightly edited transcript with slides follows.

Reji Kumar (RK): Good morning, good afternoon, good evening to all the participants and it’s our next edition of this webinar. We are happy to schedule. Now this is on hydrogen. So many of you have seen several waves of hydrogen, maybe for the last 30–40 years, different waves of hydrogen. And the hydrogen economy, people have been talking about it since the 1980s, so none of them…

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Michael Barnard
Michael Barnard

Written by Michael Barnard

Climate futurist and advisor. Founder TFIE. Advisor FLIMAX. Podcast Redefining Energy - Tech.

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