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Hydrogen Leaks & Is A Potent Greenhouse Gas
Hydrogen Leaks & Is A Potent Greenhouse Gas
Hydrogen prevents high global warming potential methane from breaking down, so this is a big problem for hydrogen for energy
Michael Barnard
Dec 22, 2024
Brampton Transit Study’s $360M Gap: Hydrogen Misrepresented as Budget-Friendly
Brampton Transit Study’s $360M Gap: Hydrogen Misrepresented as Budget-Friendly
Canadian transit ‘think’ tank CUTRIC lowballs hydrogen costs and raises electric costs to game hydrogen buses into blended fleet
Michael Barnard
Dec 20, 2024
How Big Things Get Done Estimating Makes Mississauga’s Hydrogen Buses Expensive
How Big Things Get Done Estimating Makes Mississauga’s Hydrogen Buses Expensive
City could get twice the number of battery electric buses for its planned trial
Michael Barnard
Dec 19, 2024
Canadian Transit Think Tank CUTRIC Captured By Hydrogen Lobby
Canadian Transit Think Tank CUTRIC Captured By Hydrogen Lobby
Hydrogen for buses is like putting square wheels on them, something proven repeatedly globally, but CUTRIC loves them
Michael Barnard
Dec 17, 2024
Deese Clean Energy Marshall Plan For Third World A US Fantasy
Deese Clean Energy Marshall Plan For Third World A US Fantasy
US needs Marshall Plan for Red states and counties, not other countries, and now even IRA benefits there are at risk
Michael Barnard
Dec 16, 2024
Tesla’s Cybercab For USA’s Dysfunction, Will Cause Congestion
Tesla’s Cybercab For USA’s Dysfunction, Will Cause Congestion
Putting an awful lot more single passenger vehicles on US roads doing multiple trips per passenger journey will increase congestion
Michael Barnard
Dec 15, 2024
Stop Emitting High GWP Methane And It Will Stop Heating World
Stop Emitting High GWP Methane And It Will Stop Heating World
Methane, the main component of natural gas and cow burps, is a very potent greenhouse gas, but only stays around a couple of decades
Michael Barnard
Dec 12, 2024
US LNG Has High Emissions & Study Showing This Attacked
US LNG Has High Emissions & Study Showing This Attacked
Only Howarth is attempting to answer the question of end-to-end emissions for LNG and is being attacked by strange bedfellows for it
Michael Barnard
Dec 11, 2024
Quebec Spent Years & Millions On Hydrogen Cars No One Drove
Quebec Spent Years & Millions On Hydrogen Cars No One Drove
Refueling station was subsidized by about $500 per kilogram of hydrogen pumped and didn’t work a third of the time
Michael Barnard
Dec 10, 2024
Hydrogen for Energy Serves Fossil Fuel Interests Not Climate Change or Economy
Hydrogen for Energy Serves Fossil Fuel Interests Not Climate Change or Economy
Slides, transcript and video from India utility professionals seminar
Michael Barnard
Dec 9, 2024
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