invoking the Defense Production Act to give a big boost to clean energy and lower carbon emissions in America. That order prioritizes solar energy, heat pump production, building insulation, electrical grid components, and hydrogen production. Here’s the part of the order that focuses on hydrogen:
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks issued a statement after the executive order was announced that said, “Reducing America’s dependence on gas and oil is critical to U.S. national security. In conflict, fossil fuel supply lines are especially vulnerable. The actions President Biden announced today will help strengthen our supply chains and ensure that the United States is a leader in producing the energy technologies that are essential to our future success.
Hydrogen advocates claim we can simply use the excess electricity that comes from grid-scale solar power plants during the middle of the day and they have a point. Much of it is wasted or “curtailed” as the industry likes to say. But to sustain a clean hydrogen industry would require massive new amounts of solar power. There is not enough solar power today to meet all our needs, so we have to make a choice between powering the electrical grid or powering electrolyzers.
So Biden is a DEMrepublicanOCRAT. How do you get this free tax money out of my pockets?
I think those dealing with climate change should at least attend one high school (or maybe even elementary) class or an online class and learn that there is more to greenhouse gasses and pollution than CO2 (there’s also NOx, CO, methane…)
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