Hydrogen is viewed as a promising alternative to fossil fuel, but the methods used to make it either generate too much carbon dioxide or are too expensive. Rice University researchers have found a way to harvest hydrogen from plastic waste using a low-emissions method that could more than pay for itself.
  • @jantinEnglish
    14•1 year ago

    So this is either a big oil corp spending pennies on theorycrafting some exciting buzzword technosolutions

    Or

    A big oil corp which figured out that if they want to stay relevant for more than 10 yrs they need to diversify into other energy sources. With all the deserved hate they attract such companies are probably most likely to invent and implement aomething like this at scale.

    It doesn’t change the fact that they should be nationalized asap and their decisionmakers jailed.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•1 year ago

      95% of hydrogen is made using natural gas in a process called natural gas reforming. They see a way to maintain their investments.

    • Bernie EcclestonedOPEnglish
      -6•1 year ago

      It doesn’t change the fact that they should be nationalized asap

      How did that go in Venezuela?

      Sounds like a really effective way of deterring innovation to me.

        • Bernie EcclestonedOPEnglish
          0•1 year ago

          That’s the only recent nationalisation I can think of, do you have any other successful ones?

          Or are you saying Venezuela’s energy infrastructure wasn’t fucked by nationalisation?