The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
The Biden administration is pumping $7 billion to kickstart development and production of CO2-free hydrogen fuel. It’s an idea that deserves to go down in flames like the Hindenburg (“Oh, the humanity!”) — unless you happen to be among the rent-seekers and corporate greenwashers cashing in on it.
The U.S. produces and consumes a lot of hydrogen, about 11.3 million metric tons last year. That said, worldwide consumption is about 120 million metric tons, of which China alone produces about 24 million. Hydrogen is remarkably useful in many disparate areas, including petroleum refining, treating metals, producing fertilizer and other chemicals, and food processing. It is also used as rocket fuel. (Commercial balloons, including the surveillance ones we sometimes had above us in Iraq, have used helium since shortly after the Hindenburg disaster.)
The burning of hydrogen releases no pollution of any kind, merely water. So, at the very back end, it’s pollution-free. But it’s sort of all downhill after that. You see, known hydrogen deposits in the earth are quite rare. And perhaps that’s in part because, until recently, nobody was looking for it. Barring that, almost all hydrogen is manufactured, and manufacturing requires energy…
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