“The worry is that, along the way, we are going to waste huge amounts of money on the wrong use cases for hydrogen and the wrong infrastructure in the wrong places. Worse than wasting money, we will also be wasting time – and that is the one thing we don’t have.”...
Sean O'Leary
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Inflation & Natural Gas: A Disease and its Carrier
Natural gas enters your home through your furnace, your appliances, and even through the electricity you use, much of which comes from gas-fired power plants. And that’s a problem because, not only is gas bad for your physical health (more on that later), it’s...
“Absurd, You Say?”
The recently signed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offers coal and gas-fired power plants as well as factories and other carbon-emitting facilities a tax credit that will pay them $85 for every metric ton of carbon they capture and sequester underground. The...
Misplaced Faith: How Policymakers’ Belief in Natural Gas is Driving Rural Pennsylvania Into an Economic Dead End
Policymakers’ pursuit of natural gas development is failing rural Pennsylvania, economic data show.
Policymakers’ Pursuit of Natural Gas is Failing Rural Pennsylvania. Investments in Quality of Life May Be More Effective.
Pennsylvania policymakers of both parties are driving efforts to expand the state’s natural gas economy despite mounting evidence that the decade-long production boom has failed to stem or even reduce job and population losses in rural counties where the...
What A Pennsylvania Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Hub Would Cost
Finally, a reporter has asked a question that should have been asked from the beginning about the proposed Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Hub for Western Pennsylvania – What will it cost? Unfortunately, none of the people Anya Litvak interviewed could provide an answer....
A Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Hub: A Logical View
The Ohio River Valley Hydrogen Hub: A Boondoggle in the Making
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) torpedoed the Build Back Better bill because, he said, it is too costly. But the fleet of hydrogen hub projects he is now promoting for locations around the nation, one of them in the Ohio River Valley, may cost nearly as much, they will...
Biden’s Plan for American Leadership in Clean Manufacturing Must Prevent Hydrogen, Carbon Capture Misuse
Today the Biden administration released a “Fact Sheet” announcing upcoming efforts to advance a cleaner industrial sector, reduce emissions, and reinvigorate…