There's something of that sentiment surrounding the 8 Rivers project – a proposal to build a multi-billion dollar zero-carbon emissions electricity generation, hydrogen, and ammonia-urea industrial complex in Taranaki. READ MORE:* $1 billion plans for Taranaki clean energy plant announced* Billion dollar hydrogen project mooted for Taranaki: Shane Jones* Could hydrogen turn Taranaki into the Norway of the Pacific? GETTY-IMAGES Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones brought the 8 Rivers project into the open. In its rush to oppose the project, Greenpeace suggests the hydrogen economy is decades away and that CCS is dubious technology. This Friday, for example, sees sod-turning on a geothermal energy hydrogen project in Taupo involving Japanese hydrogen innovators Oyabashi and the local Tuaropaki Trust.

Source: Stuff November 28, 2018 16:00 UTC