Auto giants and the oil companies will lobby the hydrogen

At the Economic forum in Davos automakers and oil companies have formed a consortium for the promotion of hydrogen. Companies, including BMW, Daimler, Toyota, Shell, Total, I believe hydrogen is the fuel of the future that must replace gasoline and diesel.The consortium will be to convince governments, regulators, other companies and the public that the transition to hydrogen is vital to our planet. There will also be large subsidies to oil and gas companies when to begin the transition to hydrogen at an acceptable consortium schemes. The consortium members believe that governments should develop a comprehensive program of investing in hydrogen infrastructure.



The statement noted that hydrogen is completely environmentally friendly at point of use: there are no CO2 emissions. But there is no mention of the fact that it is not equivalent to environmentally friendly technology. If emissions do not occur in the exhaust pipe, it does not mean that they are not at the factory. For obtaining methane use natural gas. At the same time in the atmosphere produces poisonous carbon monoxide.

Transport accounts for a quarter of greenhouse gases. Any alternatives to oil are welcome. And hydrogen is a improvement, but not a magical substance, which it is trying to present the members of the new consortium. We must not forget that methane has a tendency to leak from the gas plants and is a less harmful greenhouse gas.

This merger is more like trying to maintain a stable position of oil producers, rather than the intention to preserve nature. You can look at the number of pre-orders of the Tesla Model 3 to understand the success in the production of electric cars to make oil companies nervous. Also in electric mobility projects require considerably less infrastructure investment. They bypass the hydrogen not only environmental, but also on efficiency.

Oil and gas companies it is too early to complain about the churn, rather the opposite. Maritime transport moves into hydrogen and liquefied natural gas. Nicola Motor presented Electrophotography truck. The company also promised to pay for the costs of infrastructure for hydrogen transport. published

 

Source: hightech.fm/2017/01/18/hydrogen_against_evs