Hydrogen Industry - House Energy Resources
- Griffin Saltron
- 23 hours ago
- 1 min read
Texas need only stay the course, and ensure a friendly regulatory market by improving permitting processes, allowing the industry to grow and thrive.
Hydrogen is found bonded to either oxygen or carbon in water or natural gas, respectively. As a result, technological advancements in this space come from the creation of new technology or infrastructure that can conduct this chemical transformation more efficiently. Types of hydrogen production rest on two scales: affordability and environmental impact. Unfortunately, these scales are inversely correlated, where “White Hydrogen” has the least environmental impact but is also the most expensive or rare. In contrast, “Black/Brown Hydrogen” is the most affordable but has the greatest environmental impact. As a result, when trying to maximize affordability and minimize environmental impact, “Blue Hydrogen” becomes the most viable production model. Blue Hydrogen can combine existing infrastructure with new technologies to generate a high quantity of hydrogen while retaining an overwhelming majority of CO2 emissions (around 90%) via carbon capture. However, if Texas wants to ensure that it remains a key player in every sector of the energy market, then the state should encourage all production of hydrogen, irrespective of the production model used.
There are, however, additional benefits to blue hydrogen production. As previously mentioned, Blue Hydrogen does have another byproduct other than pure hydrogen and that is carbon dioxide (CO2). Carbon dioxide has a variety of profitable uses when stored, including liquification to obtain more oil from a well. A process that has been made more feasible for a variety of entities following the EPA’s granting of Texas primacy over Class VI (CO2 Storage) wells.
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