“If you're an oil and gas company, in a way, talking about hydrogen is kind of a two-way bet because if it works, then you're embedded in the hydrogen industry — but if it doesn't work, you've delayed the transition to the thing you don't make, which is electricity,” he tells Recharge. “So why wouldn't you promote hydrogen for inappropriate use? [...]"
@antares but then, an awful lot of electricity is generated using oil and gas.
@volkris This is unfortunately still true, and we should add coal in there as well. I think it is reasonable to clean up the power grid, and in fact that process is already underway.
I suspect Hypx will want me to call out that the hydrogen economy can also be cleaned up, but [I am more skeptical](https://qoto.org/@antares/110986868805276550) that it will happen in the kind of timeline we need it to or at the price point that is reasonable.
@antares but that goes back to the original post.
It said they might delay the transition to the thing they don't make, but they DO make it, just deeper in the supply chain.
So the picture being painted doesn't really hold together.
And that's not even getting into the electricity pathway to hydrogen, which the companies supposedly aren't involved in, so.