Saul Griffith’s hydrogen lesson for Andrew Forrest

Griffith accused Fortescue of signing “fake contracts” with European energy companies for hydrogen that might not be delivered, and said Australia had “drunk the Kool-Aid”, a reference to a mass suicide at the direction of American preacher Jim Jones in 1978.Climate celebrityThe Sydney-educated Griffith isn’t well known in his home country. He became a bit of a climate celebrity in the US, where, after completing a PhD in engineering at MIT, he launched a campaign to switch the entire country from petrol and gas to solar, wind and other forms of renewable energy.Griffith doesn’t suffer from shyness about his opinions or achievements. On Tuesday he mentioned that he had operated a nuclear power reactor, was a world leader in hydrogen-storage technology and had inspired the Biden administration’s signature policy, the Inflation Reduction Act.Fortescue Metals Group founder…

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