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Rio Tinto And Sumitomo To Build Gladstone Hydrogen Pilot Plant To Trial Lower-Carbon Alumina Refining - FuelCellsWorks https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/rio-tinto-and-sumitomo-to-build-gladstone-hydrogen-pilot-plant-to-trial-lower-carbon-alumina-refining/
@jmtixhon Interesting. However, I’m not sure using green hydrogen as a chemical source of heat is the best climate reduction strategy. What is really needed in my opinion is a non carbon heat source such as might be possible from molten salt reactors.
@icanbob Moltensalt reactor, SMR, Thorium are gaining traction daily. Vantenfall in SW plans to buy a SMR…US, Korea, Japan, China are doing the same as there are many positive items with these new tech . Simply consuming all waste generated these past decades. US has 86000 tons of waste to deal with Curio.com has developed the technology to convert these waste into fuel for the new reactors. It is just the beginning of a new ‘clean’ nuclear era.
@jmtixhon I would agree that if the nuclear industry could consume its waste economically it would be a big boost. In Canada we have Moltex claiming to have a molten salt technology to do that. My worry is that new nuclear technologies development timeline is too long to effectively address what is increasingly looking like a climate tantrum from Mother Nature.
@icanbob timing to get this up and running is certainly to take in consideration and still have focus and th renewable source as there is no other alternative,,,,but I have a feeling (my opinion) that O&G will be there for a long time! Don’t you think?
@jmtixhon I would agree. There is a saying borrowed from the game of baseball: Mother Nature bats last. In all past energy transitions we always went from dilute to more concentrated forms of energy. Only time will tell if renewables are truly bucking that trend or are only solving a small portion of our overall climate emissions problem. My fear is that time is the thing we are out of when it comes to climate change. Ecological systems in overshoot flip quickly.