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- Title
Why hydrogen's carbon past matters for hydrogen futures.
- Authors
Hollenhorst, Johannes
- Abstract
Recent calls for critical social science research on hydrogen have largely focused on "green" hydrogen producedfrom renewable energy sources. What these calls have notfully considered is that hydrogen is a substance that has been used and produced at scale by hydrocarbon industriesfor decades. Thefossil-based knowledge, technoloRY, and infrastructure ofthis carbon past remain at the heart ofthe future hydrogen economy, as exemplibed by the socially and environmentally problematic rise of"blue" hydrogen. To achieve a socio-ecological hydrogen transition, social science research on hydrogen needs to startfrom hydrogen's carbon past in order to identify and contribute to the active reworking ofhydrocarbon path dependencies.
- Subjects
HYDROGEN economy; RENEWABLE energy sources; HYDROGEN; SOCIAL science research; HYDROGEN as fuel; ECONOMIC forecasting
- Publication
GAIA: Ecological Perspectives for Science & Society, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 2, p225
- ISSN
0940-5550
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14512/gaia.32.2.4