It's worth to read the full article, which is clear that even the free lance journalist, Casey Crownhart, says it's purely speculation.
Casey happily tells us about herself:
I’m a senior climate reporter at MIT Technology Review, focusing on renewable energy, transportation, and how technology can fight climate change. I’m a regular contributor to WNYC’s Science Friday, and I’ve previously worked as a freelance reporter, contributing stories to outlets including Popular Science and Atlas Obscura. Before jumping into journalism, I worked as a researcher in materials science.
My son is a materials scientist, by the way, which doesn't make him an expert in geology, and I very much think his career will go well enough that he will not have to "jump into journalism," thus dishonoring science with tripe articles. (He is now in
nuclear materials science.
I like, of course, some text from the
full article by the speculating journalist, specifically this text:
There are so many open questions for this industry, including how much hydrogen is actually going to be accessible and economical to extract. It’s not even clear how best to look for the gas today; researchers and companies are borrowing techniques and tools from the oil and gas industry, but there could be better ways.
Of course, the marketing of fossil fuels as hydrogen as an impetus for our "drill, baby, drill" borrows "tools from the oil and gas industry."
I can see it now: "We're drilling for hydrogen, but WHOOPS, we hit natural gas." Who knew? "Oh well, we'll just burn the gas, and keep on drilling, baby, drilling."
Belief in the bullshit handed out by the fossil fuel industry to greenwash itself as hydrogen, relies on public stupidity, poor education, wishful thinking and delusion. This of course, is a good bet. Afterall, Donald Trump is in the White House again, and "drilling for hydrogen" is a good way to get fossil fuel companies permission to drill everywhere they haven't drilled already.
Hydrogen advocacy is 100%, all of the time, the same as fossil fuel advocacy, in all cases.
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