HYDROGEN IS NOT ZERO-EMISSION!

HYDROGEN IS NOT ZERO-EMISSION.  Even when spending £88 m of greenhouse gases.

Thanks for this.  We must lag ourselves and lag every building - the 1990s energy triangle of conservation (using much less through cutting our demand), efficiency and renewables.

What do you make of hydrogen buses, here Jonathon?

Dear Tim

 

In due course, running bus fleets on genuinely green hydrogen does make good sense – simply because of ease of refuelling at bus depots. But getting to the point where hydrogen is genuinely green is a different story – as laid out in that blog!

 

Best wishes

Jonathon

https://www.wmca.org.uk/news/national-express-to-run-zero-emission-sprint-bus-services/

Solihull gets both flash, flaunting our wealth, grossly extravagant with greenhouse gases, trams and, Sprint hydrogen buses ("These tram-style buses have proved popular with customers on similar rapid transit services across Europe and the UK.")  Simply reduce more greenhouse gases by using electric buses directly on roads without the rails (trams) or, without all the junction changes/upgrades and road widening (Sprint).

Brum leader, Cllr Ian Ward, wrote, “These zero-emission buses, including the 20 hydrogen-fuelled vehicles funded by Birmingham City Council, will offer travellers on the A34 and A45 a comfortable and reliable alternative to the car for their journeys and contribute towards achieving our climate change targets.”