As part of the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and The Transnational Institute (TNI) report on Europe’s efforts to turn Northern African into a hydrogen manufacturing center for Europe, I dove into the economic seesaw problem of green hydrogen. Many people are claiming that it will be cheap, but the evidence isn’t strong for that being true — quite the opposite in fact. Quite reasonably, the CEO folks edited my nerdy explanation down to make it more palatable to their audiences, but CleanTechnica readers are made of sterner stuff, so here’s the original version.
The standard process to make green hydrogen is electrolysis. Put a couple of electrodes in water, add electricity, and water separates into oxygen and hydrogen. That’s something that can be done in a basic high school science lab.
But to capture the hydrogen, protect the electrodes, and have a useful volume…
New African Hydrogen Report Shows Hydrogen Can Be Green, But Won’t Be Cheap
