FRANK LASEE: Time For Trump To Place Another Biden Green Energy Boondoggle On Chopping Block
So far, President Trump and his energy secretary, Chris Wright, are right about one thing: under the previous administration, the Orwellian-named Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law wasted $…
So far, President Trump and his energy secretary, Chris Wright, are right about one thing: under the previous administration, the Orwellian-named Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law wasted $9.5 billion in funding green hydrogen projects.
Fortunately, on his first day in office, Trump halted the use of government funds for green energy and clean H2 projects. And Wright has signaled his ambition to “unleash American energy at home and abroad to restore our energy dominance.” The administration has their work cut out for them.
Once someone learns how “green” hydrogen is made, they will hardly need critical thinking skills to know there is something wrong. There have recently been a number of hydrogen project cancellations; notably, BP and Shell canceled 18 projects to save $200 million annually. In addition to its many other drawbacks, green hydrogen is an incredible waste of money. It costs at least five times more to make than other energy sources it is meant to replace.
Other Biden forced “green” energy sources, like offshore wind, cost five times as much as natural gas electricity. This will cause electricity bills in New York and Virginia to skyrocket,adding to inflation. Paul Martin, chemical engineer and member of the Hydrogen Science Coalition, tells us, “every time you involve hydrogen, you get not small losses, but large, substantial losses. The root of the problem is that hydrogen is too small and volatile a molecule to be safely or effectively transmitted, distributed, or used with existing gas pipelines, turbines, boilers, cooktops, or burner jets. That reality would translate into hugeretrofit costs, and likely serious energy efficiency losses.”
Green hydrogen requires ten times more water than hydrogen. It is water intensive. Sea water can be used, but desalination is an added cost. Pure water is heated to 2,000° F and electrocuted. The hydrogen is then chilled to 420° Fbelow zero. Turning it into a liquid.Then it is compressed to