How Green Hydrogen Hype Infects Rational Decision-Making While Blue Hydrogen Is Quarantined
Governments, industries, and investors are racing to embrace green hydrogen as the ultimate decarbonization tool. It’s marketed as clean, abundant, and the only way to replace fossil fuels. But is this surge driven by scientific necessity or ideological infection?
Meanwhile, blue hydrogen is being pushed into quarantine, despite its potential as a practical transition fuel.
So, we must ask: Has green hydrogen become a political virus, while more viable solutions are ignored?
The Green Hydrogen Mutation
Hydrogen itself isn’t the issue – it’s where and how we use it that matters.
Inefficiency Epidemic:
• Green hydrogen is wasting 60–70% of energy before it even reaches the end user.
Costs:
• Green H₂: $9–$18 per kg
• Blue H₂: $2.5–$4 per kg
• Fossil H₂: ~$1.00 per kg
• Without subsidies, green hydrogen without chance
Renewable Grid Overload:
• Electrolyzers need huge amounts of clean electricity
• Many countries still burn fossil fuel for electricity—meaning green hydrogen isn’t really green.
The Quarantine of Blue Hydrogen: Why Is It Treated Like a Disease?
even though it is:
✔ Affordable – Up to 5× cheaper than green hydrogen today.
✔ Scalable
✔ Lower Carbon Than Claimed – With CCS, blue hydrogen emissions can be cut by 85–95%.
The truth? Blue hydrogen isn’t perfect, but it is far better than continuing to burn fossil fuels with no mitigation.
The Political Virus:
Governments are betting trillions on green hydrogen, but few are asking tough questions:
• Is there a demand? Many projects lack long-term buyers.
• Can the grid handle it? Large-scale electrolysis will strain power grids, raising electricity prices.
• Without dedicated renewable energy, green hydrogen still relies on fossil electricity.
By contrast, blue hydrogen works today – yet activists and politicians attack it while championing high-cost, inefficient solutions that may never scale.
Instead of a “hydrogen everywhere” pandemic, we need a targeted approach:
✔ Hydrogen makes sense in heavy industry (steel, ammonia, refining, glass, cement).
✔ It works for limited transport (as high pressure tube trailer or at times with cryogenic LH2 tankers).
✔ It’s useful for seasonal energy storage in specific cases.
But using green hydrogen for heating, cars, and general power generation? That’s a waste of energy and resources.
We don’t need a hydrogen war – we need hydrogen realism.
- Blindly pushing green hydrogen everywhere is an ideological infection.
- Using a mix of green, blue, and other low-carbon solutions is the rational cure.
If we don’t make smart choices today, we might wake up surrounded by stranded assets, wasted subsidies, and an energy system more fragile than before.
What do you think?
