Politicians have to look beyond catchphrases like 'clean hydrogen' and understand the research behind renewable energy sources, says Andrew Forrest.
To tackle runaway global warming, politicians have to look beyond catchphrases like "clean hydrogen" and understand the research behind renewable energy sources before making decisions, Fortescue chairman Andrew Forrest told CNBC.
"I'm asking them to do the academic analysis and research. Just don't fall, like we are in Australia and internationally, for the quick sound bites like 'clean hydrogen,'" Forrest said Thursday on CNBC's ""That's like clean coal or cancer-free tobacco," he said, adding that decision-makers need to ask questions around emissions from unintended or accidental leaks, the impact of methane in the atmosphere and carbon over the next two decades.
Hydrogen can be produced in a number of ways and from almost all energy resources — one way is to use electrolysis, with an electric current splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen. If the electricity comes from a renewable source like wind or solar, then some describe it as "green" or "clean" hydrogen.While demand for hydrogen has grown more than three-fold since 1975 and continues to rise, the IEA says almost all of it is supplied from burning fossil fuels.
"If you really want to stop global warming in the period of time when it's going to be most dangerous, the next 20 years, then we need to be encouraging green hydrogen straightaway," Forrest said.— the process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide as a way to tackle global warming, according to Forrest. But most of those attempts tend to fail, he said.
We need to remember the Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, we need to remember that [renewable energy] is a better source of fuel.
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