Coal to hydrogen

Hydrogen has been touted as the next technology for power storage, in both large and small scale. It’s often talked about as a green energy, but it all comes down to how the hydrogen is produced.  In February this year Victoria’s Environmental Protection Authority approved a trial project to convert brown coal to hydrogen.  Led by the multinational corporation Kawasaki Heavy Industries. It would involve building a test plant to extract hydrogen using brown coal from the Loy Yang mine, in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, to then be exported to Japan.  It seems that both state and federal governments are again colluding to prop-up the zombie coal industry at the very time that we need to be rapidly moving away from this dirty and damaging fossil fuel.  Guests: Cam Walker (Friends of the Earth Melbourne); Wendy Farmer (Voices of the Valley).  Links:https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/epa_propsup_fossilfuelshttps://www.melbournefoe.org.au/carbon_capture_and_storage Earth Matters #1183 was produced by Teishan Ahearne.