REAL Green wrote:“Utility Global Comes Out With Bold Claims for Cheaper, Cleaner ‘Blue’ Hydrogen”
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles ... r-hydrogen
“Utility Global, a Utah-based startup focused on solid oxide electrolyzer technology, claims to have received investment offers from oil majors after coming up with what it calls a hydrogen breakthrough. The innovation is a new solid oxide electrochemical reactor design that Utility Global, a spinout from Utah research hub Hall Labs, says can be used to deliver blue hydrogen 30 percent cheaper and with 30 percent lower carbon emissions than traditional steam methane reforming. Blue hydrogen is made from natural gas in the process of steam methane reformation, with the resulting emissions curtailed through carbon capture and storage. Blue hydrogen is one of several methods aiming to cut the carbon emissions associated with the industrial production of the gas. It is purportedly cleaner than the current industrial processes but still a long way from being zero-emission or "green" hydrogen, which is made using renewable power and electrolyzers. Like the green variety, blue hydrogen is expensive to produce compared to the traditional carbon-intensive production processes used today. By reducing blue hydrogen's costs, Utility Global's technology could speed up hydrogen's much-vaunted replacement of fossil fuels…Boiled down, “it's an efficient version of steam methane reforming that uses electrolysis to do the separation of the hydrogen rather than mechanical compressors and pressure swing adsorption [used in most blue hydrogen production processes],” Matt Dawson, Utility Global’s chief executive officer, explained in an interview. “Instead of using electricity to separate off the hydrogen from all the other components, we use heat. Heat is a cheaper resource. That’s why we can be 30 percent cheaper and 30 percent more CO2-efficient. The architecture of our electrochemical device is unique.”
Subjectivist wrote:Every smart producer knows the more customers you have bidding for your product or service the better you get paid for supplying their needs. Russia needs Nordstream as a fail-safe in case supplying China falls through for any of a number of reasons.
radon1 wrote:Russia is selling gas to China for pennies if not at loss, because China does not need that much gas. They already have supply from the Middle Asian stans and elsewhere. Meanwhile, Russia charges their own citizens at Far East a much greater price for NG than the Chinese just across the border. It is cheaper to buy liquid NG from the US in the Russian Far East than from the Russian domestic producers.
Meanwhile, the Western Europe pays the world market prices for the Russian NG which is a multiple of the Chinese prices. So no, let the Europeans buy all the NG that they want and then some.
JuanP wrote:"Construction of Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to restart next month"
https://www.rt.com/business/508130-nord ... n-resumes/
"Construction on the multibillion-dollar project was abruptly halted at the end of last year, when Swiss-Dutch pipelaying firm Allseas withdrew its vessels over the threat of US sanctions. While Russia has assured its partners that it can finish the project on its own, though with a delay, Washington is still trying to prevent the completion of Nord Stream 2, with the Trump administration threatening new sanctions for companies linked to it."
This is a never ending story!
dissident wrote:JuanP wrote:"Construction of Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to restart next month"
https://www.rt.com/business/508130-nord ... n-resumes/
"Construction on the multibillion-dollar project was abruptly halted at the end of last year, when Swiss-Dutch pipelaying firm Allseas withdrew its vessels over the threat of US sanctions. While Russia has assured its partners that it can finish the project on its own, though with a delay, Washington is still trying to prevent the completion of Nord Stream 2, with the Trump administration threatening new sanctions for companies linked to it."
This is a never ending story!
Russia is doing the EU a massive favour by offering it cheap pipeline gas while the EU and its puppet master Uncle Scumbag are busy pissing on Russia's face. I think that Putin is making a serious mistake by continuing with this project. The EU will rue the day it started playing games with natural gas.
The economics of shipping LNG are much better for Russia. LNG can go to the highest bidder and is not subject to blackmail as we see with NS 2. It is stupid being tied to malicious customers. American posturing on supplying LNG to the EU to "replace" Russia is laughable. America imports 80 billion cubic metes per year from Canada. It simply does not have over 150 bcm/year in export capacity. Especially with the conversion of coal power plants to natural gas power plants. What the posturing really entails is the supply of Qatari LNG to the EU.
The fun thing with LNG, is that talk of displacing this and that is for retards. There is a global market as with oil and supplying it defeats any power block extortion attempts.
radon1 wrote:Russia is selling gas to China for pennies if not at loss, because China does not need that much gas. They already have supply from the Middle Asian stans and elsewhere. Meanwhile, Russia charges their own citizens at Far East a much greater price for NG than the Chinese just across the border. It is cheaper to buy liquid NG from the US in the Russian Far East than from the Russian domestic producers.
Meanwhile, the Western Europe pays the world market prices for the Russian NG which is a multiple of the Chinese prices. So no, let the Europeans buy all the NG that they want and then some.
JuanP wrote:Nonsense! I will add to Dissident's reply above.
Subjectivist wrote:Now that it has come up I have not heard any whining about Ukraine suffering from lack of gas because they are late making payments recently. Kind of hard to continue claiming the Crimea was stolen if you simultaneously buy gas from the thief I guess?
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