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Making hydrogen from waste plastic could pay for itself (techxplore.com)

submitted 1 year ago by bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sounds promising but remember that when there's news of hydrogen, there's a fossil fuel company behind it

This is from SLB, the company that Kevin Wyss works for. Took about 30 seconds of googling to find out that it's essentially a greenwashing fossil fuel company

hold up it's actually the biggest offshore drilling company in the world. lol, lmao even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlumberger

[–] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol, energy company interested in energy research.

Such a gotcha...

You're shitting on this guy? Check yourself

Who do you think is going to engineer the transition to a circular economy..my money is on actual engineers, not code monkeys

You could also, you know, read the article...

By comparison, "green" hydrogen—produced using renewable energy sources to split water into its two component elements—costs roughly $5 for just over two pounds. Though cheaper, most of the nearly 100 million tons of hydrogen used globally in 2022 was derived from fossil fuels, its production generating roughly 12 tons of carbon dioxide per ton of hydrogen.

"The main form of hydrogen used today is 'gray' hydrogen, which is produced through steam-methane reforming, a method that generates a lot of carbon dioxide," said James Tour, Rice's T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry and a professor of materials science and nanoengineering. "Demand for hydrogen will likely skyrocket over the next few decades, so we can't keep making it the same way we have up until now if we're serious about reaching net zero emissions by 2050