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  • Why Hydrogen Won’t Win The Zero-Carbon Steel Race - CleanTechnica

    The article analyzes the economic viability of emerging low-carbon steelmaking technologies in light of slowed steel demand growth and heightened scrutiny on cost, carbon intensity, and feasibility. It highlights five key steelmaking routes, including hydrogen-based direct reduced iron (DRI) with carbon capture and storage (CCS), natural gas with CCS, and molten oxide electrolysis (MOE). The author emphasizes that realistic assumptions about electricity costs, fuel prices, and carbon policies are crucial for assessing these technologies’ prospects, using examples from Northeastern Europe and Australia to illustrate regional cost variations. A central conclusion is that hydrogen-based steelmaking is unlikely to achieve cost parity due to persistently high green hydrogen prices, which remain between $5 to $8 per kilogram in most developed countries and $3 to $4 in renewable-rich regions. This high cost stems from the inefficiencies and electricity intensity of electrolytic hydrogen production, storage, and compression. Earlier optimistic assumptions about rapidly falling hydrogen costs and free or nearly free renewable electricity have proven

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  • EU Rules Out Production Aid In Blow To Battery & Cleantech Industry - CleanTechnica

    The European Commission’s newly published state-aid rules, known as CISAF, have been criticized as a setback for the EU cleantech and battery industry. The rules maintain a ban on production aid—subsidies tied directly to units produced—despite the US successfully using such aid to build a competitive battery sector. While CISAF allows governments to take equity stakes in cleantech companies, eases aid for projects approved by the EU Innovation Fund, and conditions foreign automotive investment aid on intellectual property and skills transfer, these measures are viewed as insufficient to address the EU’s lack of competitiveness in cleantech manufacturing. Critics, including green group Transport & Environment (T&E), argue that the EU missed an opportunity to implement simple, predictable, and bankable production aid similar to the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which was promised by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. T&E highlights that although €1.8 billion remains earmarked for batteries under the Innovation Fund, and there

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  • France’s €520/Ton CO₂ Problem: Hydrogen Is Too Expensive For Transport - CleanTechnica

    The article discusses the findings of a French audit on the economics of decarbonized hydrogen production via electrolysis, revealing that the cost of avoiding CO₂ emissions through this method is approximately €520 per ton. This figure far exceeds typical societal costs for CO₂ reduction technologies, highlighting that electrolytic hydrogen remains economically unviable without substantial public subsidies. France’s National Hydrogen Strategy (SNH2), launched in April 2025, aims to rapidly expand electrolytic hydrogen production with over €9 billion allocated for this purpose. However, the Cour des comptes report underscores that even optimistic assumptions about energy prices do not significantly improve the economic outlook, and the reported €9 billion in subsidies likely underestimates the true financial burden due to unaccounted infrastructure costs and indirect subsidies. The audit also reveals a complex web of overlapping subsidies that effectively lower the cost burden for hydrogen producers. These include mechanisms like the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which, by increasing carbon costs for fossil-fuel-based hydrogen

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  • MIT turns seawater, soda cans into 90% cleaner hydrogen fuel

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  • World’s strongest stellarator hits 43-second fusion plasma milestone

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  • Beyond the Hydrogen Mirage: A Candid Conversation with Joe Romm - CleanTechnica

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  • Toyota’s liquid hydrogen car conquers Fuji 24-hr race with 468 laps

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  • Ultra-thin membrane unlocks 20% cheaper, greener hydrogen fuel power

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  • IPHE Rejects Science On Hydrogen’s Indirect Warming, Raising Credibility Concerns - CleanTechnica

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  • London-New York in 45 mins: New hypersonic jet could fly 7x speed of sound

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  • From Coal Dominance To Renewables: How Poland Changed Its Energy Story - CleanTechnica

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  • Nikola’s hydrogen trucks hit the auction block

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  • The Hype Returns: Joe Romm & Michael Barnard Revisit Hydrogen, 20 Years Later

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  • Phân tích vai trò hydrogen trong quá trình khử carbon ngành lọc hóa dầu và công nghiệp nặng

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  • Will Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks Just Follow The Hydrogen Car Storyline?

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  • HySpeed Green Hydrogen Play Will Lead To Stranded Assets & Fiscal Losses

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  • California’s New Hydrogen Subsidy Sinkhole: 13 Cars, Millions Spent, Negative Impact

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  • Triển vọng và thách thức của hydrogen phát thải thấp trong chiến lược chuyển đổi năng lượng toàn cầu

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  • Pipelines To Nowhere: The Real Costs Of TMX & The Dutch Hydrogen Network

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  • Hydrogen’s Harsh Reality: Plug Power, Ballard, and FuelCell Near the End?

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