[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Torture

I am literally only bumping this thread to brag that I got an A+ on my paper discussing the opportunities, barriers, and commercialization of Hydrogen in my Business of Clean Tech MBA class.

...anybody want to talk about Hydrogen? How about Alberta's Hydrogen Roadmap (https://www.alberta.ca/hydrogen-roadmap.aspx) or Canada's Hydrogen strategy? (https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/www.nr...a-na-en-v3.pdf)

Hydrogen has a lot of potential in the energy transition. Could be used as storage for intermittent renewables, an energy carrier that can be exported, heating/feedstock for industrial processes, transportation (potentially hard to decarbonize sectors like heavy duty, long haul, shipping, aviation, etc as I'd say EVs seem to have beat H2 fuel cells to market for passenger vehicles), there's a pilot project injecting it into natural gas, lots of cool potential.
Canada is actually positioned quite well for Hydrogen, whether that's "blue" hydrogen from natural gas paired w/ CCUS in AB/SK where we have the resources, the know-how, and the geology, or "green" hydrogen where we have abundant renewables (hydro in BC, MB, QC, maritimes, and potentially AB if as we bring on solar/wind capacity). Alberta is one of the larger producers of Hydrogen right now, although none of it is clean at the moment, nor is it used for energy.

I'm very envious as that would be such a cool program to be in and that's a fascinating topic because opinions are so divergent.

By now I think most people know my position on hydrogen as being more a barrier to the transition than a tool to help. The biggest question I'd have for you is the excitement around blending with natgas. A 20% blend will net much less than a 6% reduction in GHG emissions and cost a lot to produce and deliver, plus require a ton of infrastructure upgrade. Wouldn't it be way cheaper and better to electrify most heating? I know we're very Canadian winter focused here, but for almost all of the world, hot water and space heating would be better off electrified. What's the benefit of adding H2 to natgas?