The war in Ukraine has upended Germany’s energy policy.<\/p>\n
The nation currently buys around 25% of its oil and 40% of its gas from Russia, contributing billions of euros a year to Moscow’s finances.<\/p>\n
Germany is moving “as fast as possible” to end that relationship, but it will take time, the country’s finance minister recently said.<\/p>\n
To help achieve that goal, Veronika Grimm – an economics professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg – wants Germany to “ramp up” its use of hydrogen.<\/p>\n
Hydrogen can store vast amounts of energy, replace natural gas in industrial processes, and power fuel cells in trucks, trains, ships or planes that emit nothing but water vapour.<\/p>\n
Ms Grimm’s enthusiasm is gaining traction, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), an energy research group, dozens of countries have published national hydrogen strategies, or are about to.<\/p>\n
Despite this flurry of interest, it’s not clear yet that the large-scale use of hydrogen can be made viable.<\/p>\n
story by Janet Schmidt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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