If a global hydrogen economy replaced the current fossil fuel-based energy system and exhibited a leakage rate of 1% then it would produce a climate impact of 0.6% of the current fossil fuel based system
Okay then. Good to know, in case we end up in some kind of alternate universe where that has any chance of happening.
yeah still sounds like a better alternative. Really loaded headline.
The article itself provides the data to argue that it’s sensationalist.
Hydrogen is therefore an indirect greenhouse gas with a global warming potential GWP of 5.8 over a 100-year time horizon. A future hydrogen economy would therefore have greenhouse consequences and would not be free from climate perturbations.
If a global hydrogen economy replaced the current fossil fuel-based energy system and exhibited a leakage rate of 1% then it would produce a climate impact of 0.6% of the current fossil fuel based system. If the leakage rate were 10%, then the climate impact would be 6% of the current system
P.S.
Nobody in their right mind will spend energy to manufacture a gas and then let 10% of it leak out unused.
Leak rates characteristic of fossil gas systems are related to the nature of fossil gas systems.
