Polarising views: The role of hydrogen as the world's future energy carrier

✍ Scribed by Bill Eggertson

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 113 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1471-0846
• DOI: 10.1016/s1471-0846(04)00081-2

✦ Synopsis

T he renewable energy sector is familiar with the long-standing posture from conventional energy suppliers, which argued long and hard that renewables would never be cost competitive and, when they were, that renewables would never be reliable and would have significant environmental downsides. The response from the renewables sector to these barriers has ranged from politically correct to downright adversarial, and it's not easy to determine which of the chords has been the more successful in helping to advance the industry's views through the balance of society.

The perennial choice of 'combatting versus co-operating' is rearing its head once again, this time in the debate over the role of hydrogen as the world's future energy carrier.