Scottish Government releases plan to make Scotland key producer of hydrogen. Greatest industrial opportunities since oil

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The latest H2 kook and misfit: Acting Energy Secretary Gillian Martin (Andrew Milligan/PA) (PA Wire)

Scottish Government releases plan to make Scotland key producer of hydrogen

Acting Energy Secretary Gillian Martin said hydrogen is one of Scotland’s ‘greatest industrial opportunities since oil and gas’.

The Independent.co.uk | Craig Meighan | Friday 29 November 2024

The Scottish Government has published its first plan to make Scotland a key producer and exporter of hydrogen.

Acting Energy Secretary Gillian Martin said hydrogen is one of Scotland’s “greatest industrial opportunities since oil and gas”.

The report – A Trading Nation: Realising Scotland’s Hydrogen Potential – A Plan for Exports – outlines what Scotland should do to become a key player in the industry.

The Government has set out recommendations to bolster the sector, including investing in the production, transport and storage of hydrogen.

It calls for the creation of regional hydrogen hubs and improving the country’s infrastructure..more
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/scottish-government-government-scottish-europe-pwc-b2655722.html



www.gov.scot: A Trading Nation: Realising Scotland's Hydrogen Potential - A Plan for Exports

Co-produced with stakeholders in the hydrogen sector, this plan aligns with our Hydrogen Action Plan and Green Industrial Strategy. It details the steps required for Scottish businesses to grasp the export opportunities hydrogen presents, as both a commodity and in the supply chain.

1. Introduction

Scotland has vast renewable energy resources. Our ambition for renewable electricity generation is to double Scotland’s overall renewable capacity to 35-39 GW by 2030[1]. This wealth of renewable electricity will be the primary route to decarbonisation for many parts of our energy system and will additionally support electrolytic production of hydrogen at scale, opening new economic opportunities for Scotland to become a leading producer and supplier of renewable hydrogen in the UK and exporting this into key European markets...more
https://www.gov.scot/publications/trading-nation-realising-scotlands-hydrogen-potential-plan-exports/pages/

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1. Good for them! The U.S gave away any chance to be a leader in the coming clean energy boom years ago.

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2. While spending what, 3,4,5 TRILLION DOLLARS on Global Hegemony

which has failed. Think of what that money could have done here.

The last war that the US actually WON was WW2.

Where are people like this?

"A permanent armament industry of VAST PROPORTIONS"

For now, PNAC has won. Many want to be "The Most LETHAL Nation" while George Washington rolls in his grave.

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3. I thought the that the Scots were wiser and smarter financially then that.

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5. The politicians buying into the hydrogen scam certainly aren't. n/t.

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4. Really? Scotland is going to disinvent the laws of thermodynamics? So called "renewable energy" remains trivial.

It's trivial on the whole fucking planet, which is burning while the fossil fuel industry works overtime to rebrand itself as "hydrogen."

Thirty years of bullshit about so called "renewable energy" fitting into 50 years of hydrogen bullshit has resulted in the following:

I have every annual issue of the IEA's World Energy Outlook in my files going back to 2009, and in addition those of 1995, 2000, 2006, 2007...

...From back issues of the World Energy Outlook, I have prepared the following table of data (as opposed to soothsaying, which the WEO always includes), showing changes in overall energy consumption by primary energy source type.

The world is pretty much as dependent, in "percent talk" on fossil fuels as it was in the year 2000, but the absolute numbers have all changed for the worse. Since 2000, world energy demand has risen by 222 Exajoules; so much for the promises of bourgeois shit for brains antinuke Amory Lovins.

Years ago, the table reported energy production in units of "MTOE," "million tons of oil equivalent," having switched to the SI unit Exajoule in recent years. In the table all numbers have been converted using the conversion factor 1 MTOE = 0.0419 EJ and are reported in EJ.

The table:



It should speak for itself.

Table of EIA WEO Energy Sources in Exajoules, 2000, 2016-2023

The wind industry grew by 0 EJ and 0% between 2022 and 2023, slower than gas, slower than coal, slower than petroleum. The world can no longer build them as fast as they fall apart.

Congrats to our fossil fuel sales people here and elsewhere:

A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.

Meanwhile, 2024 is shaping up to be the worst year ever for the accumulation of the fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in history, and still we hear this antiscience bullshit.

The Disastrous 2024 CO2 Data Recorded at Mauna Loa: Yet Another Update 11/10/2024

No sense of decency, none, not among clueless politicians in Scotland, not among people who buy into this absurd line of shit, and certainly not among the fossil fuel salespeople selling this big lie of rebranding fossil fuels as hydrogen.