Blue Hydrogen (Made from NatGas) Has Advantage Over Green & Pink
We spotted an article published by PBS about hydrogen, flying under the headline, “Hydrogen may be a climate solution. There’s debate over how clean it will truly be.” We thought, “Here we go again. Another overt attack on hydrogen by the left because most hydrogen is made from natural gas” (see Appalachian Leftwing Group Turns Against Hydrogen Power). But when we read the article, we were treated to information about blue vs. green vs. pink hydrogen, and how blue hydrogen (made from natgas) is the winner–at least for the next 10-20 years.
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Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia are all scrambling to form working groups or other alliances in an attempt to be THE state chosen for one of four regional hydrogen hubs funded by the recently passed so-called Biden infrastructure bill (see 
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia are all scrambling to form intrastate working groups and alliances in an attempt to be THE state chosen for one of four regional hydrogen hubs funded by the recently passed so-called Biden infrastructure bill (see 
Yesterday MDN highlighted a newly published Cleveland State University study commissioned (and paid for) by the nonprofit JobsOhio (see 
Over the past decade or more landowners have been approached about leasing their property and/or mineral rights–for shale drilling, pipelines, solar and wind farms, etc. Here’s a new one to add to the list: pore rights. Pore space is the underground space where carbon dioxide that’s captured from various processes can be injected and stored, keeping it locked away underground where it theoretically won’t damage Mom Earth. The whole concept of storing CO2 underground would be funny if it were not so sad that grownups are actually doing this. But we digress. Leasing pore rights may be the next big thing for landowners and mineral rights owners in the Marcellus/Utica region as carbon capture and storage takes off. However, who owns pore rights? Landowners or mineral rights owners?
Yesterday MDN friend Joe Barone from 
KeyState LLC is developing 7,000 acres of natural gas fields and geological storage in West Keating Township, Clinton County in the middle of coal and iron country in central Pennsylvania (see 
Getting hydrogen from point A to point B by mixing it with and flowing it through existing interstate natural gas pipelines sounds easy. Just hook up to a handy source of hydrogen and let the molecules flow and mingle with methane molecules, right? However, adding hydrogen (H2) to existing methane (CH4) pipelines is NOT a simple thing. There are major roadblocks to flowing H2 through CH4 pipes.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia are all scrambling to form intrastate working groups or other alliances in an attempt to be THE state chosen for one of four regional hydrogen hubs funded by the recently passed so-called Biden infrastructure bill (see 
Yes, you read it first on MDN. Two days ago MDN pointed out our observation that anti-fossil fuel cultists have begun to turn against the use of hydrogen, fearing it would mean boosting the use of natural gas in the process (see