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FUTURE OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
bio-carbon, which can potentially be sold as a soil amendment.
The urgency around climate action calls for solutions to
the so-called energy trilemma: securing supply to meet the
demand that is affordable and sustainable. The energy transition
will cost money as capital is needed to build out renewable
infrastructure, and higher costs will place a heavier energy burden
on low-to-moderate income earners. That is why finding
the most cost-effective ways to meet the growing demand for
clean energy is crucial.
The beauty of using waste for energy is that it is plentiful,
renewable and relatively inexpensive. No additional energy is
needed to produce the energy, and no water needs to be added
to the process.
Waste is ubiquitous, so H2
production from waste can be
handled locally, near or adjacent to demand, be it for transportation,
power generation or industrial usage. This way, wasteto-H2
pipelines
or
to markets, and that
cuts out the need for expensive infrastructure buildout.
The old adage of thinking globally and acting locally remains
true. Waste-to-energy creates local fuel from local waste.
By shortening fuel supply chains, efficiencies are gained and
decarbonization deepens. This raises the prospect of reducing
dependencies on fuels shipped among regions and eliminates
the need for new investments to build and maintain pipelines.
The local waste-to-local fuel dynamic offers the possibilities of
more affordable, sustainable and secure energy.
also eliminates the need for long-distance H2
waterborne ammonia tankers to carry H2
SPECIAL FOCUS
An economy-wide energy transition is not happening overnight,
and some nascent technologies are far from commercialization.
As the world seeks sustainable solutions to the climate
crisis, industry must recognize that the need for energy with a
negative water intensity is as crucial as the need for energy that
has a negative carbon intensity.
LITERATURE CITED
1
ScienceDirect, " The water planetary boundary: Interrogation and revision, "
March 2020, online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
S2590332220300907#:~:text=The%20current%20freshwater%20use%20
planetary,deleterious%20or%20even%20catastrophic%20impacts
2
3
International Energy Agency, " Global hydrogen review 2021, " October 2021,
online: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-hydrogen-review-2021
The World Bank, " Solid waste management, " February 2022, online: https://
www.worldbank.org/en/topic/urbandevelopment/brief/solid-wastemanagement
MATT
MURDOCK is the CEO and Founder of Raven SR, an
entrepreneur and civic leader with more than 30 yr of experience
starting and managing projects in the U.S. and West Africa.
Murdock has extensive knowledge of renewable energy and
developed Alert Plus, a natural gas leak detection technology.
Murdock also has experience with the creation and protection of
intellectual property and large infrastructure projects. In addition,
he has been involved with humanitarian and economic development projects in
multiple African countries with Humanitarian Services for Development in Togo,
Ghana and Benin. A Wyoming native, Murdock has been a driving force behind
several initiatives from broadband to medical care. He has served as a board director
of the Wyoming Association of Municipalities and as a member of the association's
Legislative Leadership Commission. Murdock earned a BS degree in comparative
economics and a BS degree in comparative government from Georgetown University.
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