Why Almost Nobody Is Buying Green Hydrogen. The vast majority of projects don’t have a single customer stepping up to buy the fuel.

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1. Green hydrogen isnt mass produced yet (although China may be doing it). Most stuff is in the scaling stage such as hysr, or pilot program stages with green ammonia for farms etc

   A lot of projects are waiting EU or other funding.

   Article appears to be misleading or confusing “green/blue/grey/black hydrogen” as “green hydrogen”

   Also fuel cells are still being tuned such as teco 2030 for maritime industry.

   Stuff takes time to test, pilot, scale, mass production, regularions etc

2. Marine shipping is going to be a customer (but large or small? time will tell) for ammonia. They maybe could use liquid H2 but ammonia is easier.

   Concrete, that is Portland Cement, may find a green version, signs are hopeful.

   Steel and hot industrial processes-

   1. burn H2 for heat : requires pipeline or rail cars, and a new source of green H2.
   2. use electricity for heat: big grid connection; electric steel mills are a mature tech.

   The green H2 is probably made from green electricity, so may as well use the electricity directly. H2 is a difficult gas, and tends to leak. Electrical resistance and arc heating is not the most elegant solution, but it is the quickest way to the goal, and looks more straightforward than H2.