Brink Of Extinction – More And More Companies Rejecting Costly Hydrogen Technology

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Brink Of Extinction – More And More Companies Rejecting Costly Hydrogen Technology
By P Gosselin on 2. May 2025

Once considered a key technology in the green energy transition, companies are waking up and finding out that hydrogen isn’t the answer to the challenges posed by renewable energies such as wind and sun.
 

“Instead of progress, disillusionment dominates. The EU in particular – especially Germany – is increasingly being criticized for its costly projects,” reports German online Blackout News. “Companies are pulling out”.

Hydrogen is expensive, hazardous and a real technical challenge that doesn’t promise to be economically feasible. The gas is metallurgically aggressive, highly flammable, explosive. It’s chemical properties make a comprehensive infrastructure difficult to manage. Moreover, producing green hydrogen is “barely affordable” and industries are reluctant to use the volatile gas because it risks being unprofitable.

High costs, low demand and political misplanning are currently jeopardizing the strategy, according to an analysis by Westwood Global Energy Group. “Only a fraction of the planned EU hydrogen pipeline is likely to be operational by 2030.”


Germany has funded an ambitious green hydrogen project in Namibia, in a protected desert area and now it may be demolished for port expansion as the country’s new president is reportedly reassessing the project and looking at a potential shift towards the established oil sector. Technical analyses indicate hydrogen is only suitable as a selective energy source.

Unless there is a major change of course, the  EU’s hydrogen strategy risks being a costly failure.

https://notrickszone.com/2025/05/02/brink-of-extinction-more-and-more-companies-rejecting-costly-hydrogen-technology/

[Smokin Joe]

 

[Fishrrman]

So long as producing hydrogen [for fuel] requires more net energy than we get from the end-product, it has no future.

What could change that?

[DB]

So long as producing hydrogen [for fuel] requires more net energy than we get from the end-product, it has no future.

What could change that?

It's only one unicorn away from success...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

So long as producing hydrogen [for fuel] requires more net energy than we get from the end-product, it has no future.

What could change that?

Same can be said about biomass, and to a lesser extent solar and wind turbines.

It changed for all of them when politics intervened and taxpayer money began going to them in trillions worldwide.

[Hoodat]

Unless there is a major change of course, the  EU’s hydrogen strategy risks being a costly failure.

Are they still hoping for the laws of physics to change?

[Hoodat]

So long as producing hydrogen [for fuel] requires more net energy than we get from the end-product, it has no future.

Correctamundo.

The ONLY future for hydrogen is as a means for storing or transporting electricity.  And this can only happen when the cost of hydrogen is no longer linked to the cost of natural gas, and becomes linked to the cost of generating electricity instead.  And right now, we are a very long ways away from that happening.  In fact, all these so-called 'green' solutions to electricity generation have actually worked against hydrogen by driving up electricity price.