World's Dirtiest Clean Energy Project (and Why I'm a Fan)

The world's first ever liquid hydrogen transport ship is on its way from Australia to Japan, carrying a cargo of brown hydrogen (made by gasifying brown coal with no carbon capture). Once it gets there, it'll either be used to generate electricity or perhaps to fuel cars. Either way, it'll be more expensive, more complicated and worse for the climate than if Australia just shipped coal for Japan to burn in a coal power plant. So why am I a fan of this project? Finally we are moving past the talking phase of the hydrogen economy and into the testing phase. How much energy will it take to transport liquid hydrogen thousands of kilometres? Will most of the liquid hydrogen boil off and leak out during the trip? Is there any way liquid hydrogen transport can ever be cost effective? This project will help us answer these questions. Just don't called it "clean" energy. An earlier written version of this is published on Medium, and it has links to sources for most of the details.   / the-dirtiest-power-project-in-the-world   If you would like to help develop the Engineering with Rosie channel, you could consider joining the Patreon community, where there is a chat community (and Patreon-only Discord server) about topics covered in the videos and suggestions for future videos and production quality improvements.   / engineeringwithrosie   Thanks for watching the video World's Dirtiest Clean Energy Project (and Why I'm a Fan)