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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: CLIMATE ONE: Has Hydrogen’s Moment Finally Arrived?
Description: Not long ago, it was said that “hydrogen is the fuel of the future - and always will be.” Now, with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law tagging $9.5 billion for developing a domestic hydrogen economy, this simplest of all elements is increasingly being discussed as a viable pathway for long-distance trucking, shipping, and hard-to-decarbonize industries like cement and steel. But how clean is clean hydrogen, really? And what will it take to make green hydrogen a cost-competitive option in applications like manufacturing, transportation, and grid-scale energy storage?Guests:Julio Friedmann, Chief Scientist, Carbon Direct