The idea originated in a paper published in March by trade body Hydrogen Europe setting out the "2 x 40 GW green hydrogen initiative." One of the authors of that manifesto also co-wrote Hydrogen Europe’s 2 x 40 GW initiative paper. “You need to do some quite deep engineering work to convert a gas pipeline system to hydrogen; hydrogen is quite different stuff to methane, so you can't convert it easily,” he said. But he questioned the feasibility of the timescales involved and achieving as much as 40 GW of capacity by 2030. The Hydrogen Europe paper claims that transporting hydrogen by pipeline costs 10 to 20 times less than electricity transported by cables.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 16, 2020 08:48 UTC