How much land would be needed for enough solar panels and windfarms to supply the world with green hydrogen?In a story in The Australian this week, the apparent answer was about 25% of Australia’s entire land mass.The newspaper quoted analysis from the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute that compared the land needed for green hydrogen production to the minuscule land required for producing blue hydrogen.Solar and wind energy are not good for the environment. The green area is the amount of land we would need to cover with wind and solar to become a green energy “superpower”. Time to end the green energy fantasy.https://t.co/LRAbiKcazl pic.twitter.com/LkhHSw9hi3— Rocky Ring Road Now Matt Canavan (@mattjcan) November 7, 2022
But the claim – tweeted by Matt Canavan, a Coalition senator – comes up with a final figure several times higher than other estimates, including…
The Australian’s back-of-the-envelope green hydrogen figures are overblown and forget climate impact | Graham Readfearn
