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Daniel
@danielwilliams965.bsky.social
Author and clean energy campaigner/advocate

My previous book is available at http://amazon.com/dp/B08WP765WX and medium page http://danielrwilliams.medium.com for excerpts of the new book and other writing about energy/climate/finance/policy
Sorry Damian, but this is a copy'n'paste of @nilsgilman.bsky.social's article 'The Coming Ecological Cold War' in foreignpolicy.com; but you have made the exact same mistake - as is now a leitmotif of the Guardian's - in that you dismiss KSA & GCC commitment to #hydrogen & hydrogen exports
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I think I've just discovered a new species
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
So, the scumbags robbing the future are breeding a new batch of young scumbags who will also rob the future

#shareholdercapitalism
#fossilprotectionism
#carbonbubble
#dualinterestrates
#capitalrequirementsrule

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November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Batteries have a weight and scale problem which fuel doesn't

And then hydrogen is the *only* fuel that does not produce emissions during production or use

It's like this:
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
If you look at industry, policy, the people who provide operate energy transmission in the EU today (kinda complicated) then you realise that hydrogen is the MAIN COMPONENT to decarbonising

(yeah, most of the Middle East + elsewhere will be supplying GREEN hydrogen)

2024.entsos-tyndp-scenarios.eu
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The shift from coal to hydrogen for industry and on-demand power will happen, but it will take time. It won't be a shift from coal to batteries: there will only be 1TWh of batteries globally by 2030, out of an overall energy demand of 120,000TWh..

Potential clean hydrogen supply is 1,220TWh
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
From the 'TYNDP 2024 Scenarios Methodology Report', I have used Chatgpt to convert (a few, selected by Chatgpt) base hydrogen import prices (€/MWh) to €/kg. This probably doesn't involve pipeline costs, but this could be subsidised. Costs are very similar to LNG import prices (€1.80/kg)

#hydrogen
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Not forgetting the electricity networks

Liebreich's plan for electrification is completely dependent on subsidies: first for the batteries (99% imported from China) and then the grid infrastructure which itself is a massive publicly-funded investment project

#hydrogen
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I did. The cause of most methane today is fracking, *fact*. It's only that climate scientists are politically motivated to avoid this fact that it is now spreading.
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Hello. Fossil fuel companies are *not* the most profitable in the world; Exxon was kicked out of the Dow Jones in 2020 after 90 years. Green stocks routinely outperform fossil, globally

The issue is they are subsidised in many countries (the EU!) and then the wider economy is completely dependent
November 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
1TWh of grid batteries by 2030 versus a potential 1,224TWh of clean #hydrogen
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I've also compiled a list of reports, with pertinent quotes, regarding hydrogen infrastructure. It should provide some clues
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Here's a breakdown of where the 'one-point-five-alive' lobbying contingent are leading us to

Use an LLM to read this quickly for you
danielrwilliams.medium.com/financing-th...
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Question is when. Graph for the arctic looks like the overall global reading
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Here is the data:
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Green hydrogen could get to $1/kg, being a rounding error for most cost prices of delivered goods, if it were given the same leniency and privileges as fossil fuels right now
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
More fossil fuels/LNG? It's not economically viable for many more years. We know what is happening, the costs are obvious, and without a structured shift to low cost #hydrogen and renewables the US is going to lose to the point of total insolvency

Hydrogen for $2-3/kg is half the price of diesel
November 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
November 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Yes, and you should quit platforming anti-hydrogen campaigners who are only interested in maintaining the status quo. Batteries don't replace the subsidised fossil energy monopoly!
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
November 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If anyone needs reminding, the IEA are oil lobbyists, who promote a third of total energy consumption to be derived from biofuels by 2050
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Cute.

The IEA, up to its usual statistical reappropriation

Sidelining hydrogen as the major component of the MENA region's plans going forward, reaffirms the IEA's track record of maintaining oil as a global currency
November 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The problem with Sweden is this, and we all know it well

#horriblejews
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Digital Euro is a cryptocurrency

#ethereum #greencrypto
October 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM