So, you’re correct to worry about the fact that the efficiency of electrolyzers on the market today is not at all competitive, especially the alkaline electrolyzers. Those of us who are excited about the future of hydrogen are basing our expectations on the performance of next-gen electrolyzers being developed now and economies of scale that are forthcoming.

The implication that this technology is being developed or supported primarily by the fossil fuel industry is a completely fabricated conspiracy theory.

Some context on my views here: I work on an R&D team at a company that develops electrolyzer technology. This obviously makes me biased, but I can promise you that every person at this company and all of our customers are investing in hydrogen with the singular goal of solving climate change. Our entire founding team is comprised of former leaders of solar & green power companies, and they recognized that the current bottleneck for onboarding more renewable electricity to the grid is the storage problem. The rollout of new electrolyzer technology is quite literally an extension of and addition to the renewable electricity ecosystem, so it’s weird how people pit hydrogen against electricity. I can assure you that we view the fossil fuel industry as the bad guys.

So green hydrogen is not the fuel of the future because current regulations don’t effectively require it to be green?

I don’t understand the motives behind these constant attacks on green hydrogen. The fact that gray and blue hydrogen exist doesn’t say anything about the potential of green hydrogen, and the fact that regulations are incomplete is not only also unrelated to the potential but completely unsurprising. Is the expectation that we pass regulations regarding electrolysis before it exists, otherwise the technology is doomed?