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  Almost no green hydrogen is now available, and it will only become available to the extent that precious clean electricity is diverted to create it, which is probably unwise when we already need to double our power generation while also replacing fossil generation with renewables.
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  The leading energy production companies from Norway and Germany agreed on Thursday to set up facilities to provide Germany with blue hydrogen, during a visit to Oslo by German Economy Minister Robert Habeck.
  Norway's state-run Equinor and Germany's RWE will invest in new power plants in Germany that will initially burn Norwegian natural gas but will eventually move over to low-carbon blue hydrogen, and finally zero-emissions green hydrogen.
  "We need plants that are ready for hydrogen ... this decarbonized hydrogen should come from Norway," Habeck said in a joint press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere in Oslo.
  
  
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  the key part you missed is blue hydrogen by definition also must sequester the waste co2 produced. the natural gas used to make the hydrogen also isn't technically burned but processed. it's a cleaner energy source than simply burning natural gas. i think generally it's seen as a cheaper entry into hydrogen as a fuel source >
  
  I know about CCS, in fact I did a research project on CCS about 10 years ago, I helped OpenGoSim implement a CPR preconditioner here, and the original motivation had been to simulate CCS.
  Soon thereafter, the UK stopped funding research projects on CCS. Talking to people in the field at the time (I'm not a geologist, I'm a mathematician), they told me that CCS was unrealistic.
  I don't see why doing CCS for "blue hydrogen" would be magically easier than doing CCS for everything else, that would have to be explained to me. >
  
  The pipeline's agnostic to the type of hydrogen. They can and will increase the amount of green hydrogen as it becomes available.