China, India place strategic bets on clean energy out of favour in the West

China, India place strategic bets on clean energy out of favour in the West

Summary

Green hydrogen at centre of state‑backed policy initiatives
Beijing aims to retain dominance as hydrogen moves beyond coal
New Delhi seeks energy security amid reliance on gas imports

BEIJING/NEW DELHI, April 22 (Reuters) - In the rolling, wind-swept grasslands of Chifeng in northern China's Inner Mongolia, towering white wind turbines line hilltops like sentinels over a hydrogen industry Beijing is trying to prise away ​from coal.

They are part of a $2 billion project - the biggest of its kind - that harnesses renewable energy to run banks of electrolysers that produce the molecules needed ‌for fertilizer, marine fuel and low-emission steelmaking.

India shares China's "green hydrogen" ambitions, but its commitments are even more concrete and aggressive. Backed by subsidies worth some $2.1 billion, New Delhi is targeting 5 million metric tons of green hydrogen annually by 2030 - five times the current size of the global market and about double what analysts estimate Chinese output will be by then.

The massive bets by the world's two most populous nations come at the same time that the West ​has quietly backed away from its ambitious green hydrogen goals from the start of this decade after cost constraints proved stickier than anticipated...more
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/china-india-place-strategic-bets-clean-energy-out-favour-west-2026-04-22/

We'll see how this goes, won't "we".

Meanwhile, Donnie Dumpster goes for another $700 Billion for "defense"

1.5 TRILLION and hasn't won a war since 1945. Couldn't even "win" in Afghanistan and now ready to lose in Iran. And the people can do nothing about it in a "democracy" that they want to impose on the world.

Trump budget seeks $1.5T in defense spending alongside cuts in domestic programs

"We're not gonna have hydrogen. The cars, they explode*" - Dumpster
*No there is not one case of a H2 car "exploding" like the Dumpster states.There are numerous cases of these cars passing the mandatory crash tests. But MAGA doesn't care about facts. At all. Do they.

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad.