Environment & Energy

The Table A.1.A 2024 World Energy Outlook Can Be Found Here:



World Energy Outlook 2024

Table A.1a: World energy supply Page 296.

This portion table shows the demand for primary energy, which the filthy fuel hydrogen is not. World Energy Demand is 642 Exajoules.

Further down, in the table, which I truncated to make fit into the graphics tools I use, there is this new addition to the table adding, just to make clear, how much energy is wasted making hydrogen so the fossil fuel industry can rebrand fossil fuels as "green."

Here is what it says in the table about the filthy fuel hydrogen, its size and how much energy is wasted to make it for fuel purposes. (It also shows how much energy is wasted processing biofuels.)



The headings are the same as in the full table above with respect to years of data collection as well as IEA soothsaying.

It is now 48 years since theInternational Journal of Hydrogen Energy began publication devoted to this energy shell game in 1976.

It appears that in 2023, nearly fifty years into the campaign to rebrand fossil fuels as "hydrogen" that the 1 EJ of energy that was represented by hydrogen is precisely represented by the amount of energy consumed to make it. The fact that the numbers seem equal is represented almost certainly by a rounding error. The soothsaying for the future shows that "by 2035" the hydrogen industry is predicted to consume twice as much primary energy is it provides. In 2040, when the IEA soothsaying predicts that hydrogen will provide 3 EJ out of a predicted 691 EJ World Energy Demand, it will consume 150% as much energy as it makes available.

One would hope that the soothsaying isn't correct. If, in 2040, we are only producing 45 EJ of World Energy Demand, the planet will be totally fucked.

The fact that the planet is already fucked, hasn't stopped the fossil fuel industry from running this half a century old bullshit advertising campaign to greenwash their products as "hydrogen."

A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.