{"id":25746,"date":"2018-11-26T07:51:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=25746"},"modified":"2018-11-26T07:51:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T21:21:06","slug":"coal-to-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-to-hydrogen\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Spending $100m On Coal To Hydrogen Project Is Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26050\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26050\" class=\"wp-image-26050 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/coal-to-hydrogen.jpg\" alt=\"coal to hydrogen madness\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/coal-to-hydrogen.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/coal-to-hydrogen-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/coal-to-hydrogen-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/coal-to-hydrogen-1024x536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dumb and Dumber: Federal and Victorian governments spending $50 million each on Japanese coal to hydrogen project.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Federal and Victorian Governments are spending $100 million building\u00a0a Japanese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-04-12\/coal-to-hydrogen-trial-for-latrobe-valley\/9643570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coal to hydrogen demonstration plant<\/a>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s $50 million each.\u00a0 Before any of you get upset at the cost, I&#8217;ll mention I originally thought it was $500 million, so we&#8217;re already $400 million better off than I thought we were a few hours ago.\u00a0 At this rate I&#8217;m sure coal to hydrogen will be making money for the average Australian in no time.\u00a0 And in other news, monkeys may fly out of my butt.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In case you can&#8217;t tell on account of how subtlety is my middle name<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-to-hydrogen\/#en-25746-1' id='enref-25746-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(25746)'>1<\/a><\/sup>, I am being a bit sarcastic.\u00a0 I doubt coal to hydrogen will ever be cost-effective. I expect it will\u00a0be cheaper to produce hydrogen using renewable energy.\u00a0 I also doubt Japan will ever import significant amounts of hydrogen.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me confident the $100 million in government funding for a Japanese coal to hydrogen demonstration plant in Victoria&#8217;s Latrobe valley will be a waste of money.\u00a0 The total cost of the <a href=\"http:\/\/global.kawasaki.com\/en\/hydrogen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kawasaki Heavy Industries<\/a> plant will be $496 million, so other people &#8212; presumably the Japanese public &#8212; will be wasting even more.<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting points about the coal to hydrogen project are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite costing $496 million cost it will only run for 12 months.<\/li>\n<li>It will produce up to 3 tonnes of hydrogen.<\/li>\n<li>3 tonnes of hydrogen has the energy equivalent of 12,500 litres of petrol.\u00a0 That&#8217;s less than 10 average Australian cars use in a year.<\/li>\n<li>If it produces 3 tonnes of hydrogen the total cost will be $165,000 per kilogram, which is around 130,000 times its current price.<\/li>\n<li>Generating electricity with hydrogen-from-coal will result in roughly the same greenhouse gas emissions as simply burning coal in a power station.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While the cost of the hydrogen produced is astronomical it is a demonstration plant and not meant to be economically viable.\u00a0 The goal is to research how to effectively produce hydrogen from coal.\u00a0 But it looks like they have their work cut out for them because Japan has a goal of getting the cost of hydrogen down around $4.20 a kilogram by 2030.<\/p>\n<h2>You Can&#8217;t Magically Make Clean Hydrogen From Coal<\/h2>\n<p>Producing gas from coal isn&#8217;t new technology.\u00a0 It was first revealed to the public in London in 1807.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the same year the British Empire abolished slavery.\u00a0 (I guess they didn&#8217;t need slaves to pedal the street light generators any more.)\u00a0 This gas was made by simply heating coal. But after 211 years of development and a $496 million investment we will be able to produce hydrogen gas by complexly heating coal.<\/p>\n<p>Coal to hydrogen is a misleading name because the bulk of the hydrogen comes from water.\u00a0 Coal has a small amount of hydrogen but it&#8217;s mostly carbon.\u00a0 To produce more hydrogen you can add steam\u00a0at high temperature.\u00a0 I can even show you the chemical equations:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25965 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chemequation.gif\" alt=\"coal to hydrogen equation\" width=\"775\" height=\"158\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry if you can&#8217;t tell the difference between a chemical equation and a cannibal whale nation, just take it from me that coal to hydrogen produces a lot of carbon dioxide.\u00a0 Kawasaki Heavy Industries &#8212; a producer of motorcycles, bulldozers, trains, ships, boilers, turbines, robots, and soon hydrogen &#8212; says carbon capture and sequestration will be necessary for an\u00a0environmentally sustainable process.\u00a0 Despite saying this, they aren&#8217;t actually going to capture and sequester the project&#8217;s carbon dioxide.\u00a0 If they did it would make the demonstration plant even more expensive.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25935\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25935\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cannibalwhales.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cannibalwhales.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cannibalwhales-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of course, solving cannibal whale equations is all in a day&#8217;s work for Aquaman.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Cost Of Carbon Dioxide Sequestration<\/h2>\n<p>If you can follow the chemical equations I put above, they show one carbon dioxide molecule is produced for every two hydrogen molecules.\u00a0 This may not seem so bad, but because it is so much heavier 11 kilograms of carbon dioxide are produced for every kilogram of hydrogen.\u00a0 The process also requires energy, which comes from burning coal or various gases given off during the process.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifri.org\/sites\/default\/files\/atoms\/files\/nagashima_japan_hydrogen_2018_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This report<\/a> says if the hydrogen is used to generate electricity, it would result in emissions as great as if the coal was burned in a power station.\u00a0 This means it may produce roughly 22 kilograms of carbon dioxide per kilogram of hydrogen.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-to-hydrogen\/#en-25746-2' id='enref-25746-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(25746)'>2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25950\" style=\"width: 852px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25950\" class=\"wp-image-25950 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/bcoal.gif\" alt=\"Emission intensity values - brown coal\" width=\"842\" height=\"694\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emissions from Australia&#8217;s brown and brownish coal power stations.\u00a0 Five have already been shut down but Loy Yang A &amp; B and Yallourn are still in operation and are enormous.\u00a0 Tonnes CO2\/MWh is the same as kilograms of CO2 per kilowatt-hour\u00a0 (Image: Acill Allen Consulting)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Estimates vary on what it will cost to capture carbon dioxide at a power station or coal to hydrogen plant and then liquefy it, transport it, and inject it underground somewhere it will hopefully stay and not cause problems.\u00a0 A cost of 5 cents per kilogram is what I would call optimistic and would need $1.10 to be spent on sequestration per kilogram of hydrogen produced.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-to-hydrogen\/#en-25746-3' id='enref-25746-3' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(25746)'>3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Currently Japan can produce hydrogen from natural gas for around $14 a kilogram.\u00a0 Their goal is to get the cost of hydrogen down to around $4.20 a kilogram by 2030 while capturing and sequestering any carbon emissions that result.\u00a0 To reach that target, hydrogen from coal would have to be very cheap if sequestration is equal to at least one quarter of the target price.<\/p>\n<h2>Plants Can Substitute For Coal<\/h2>\n<p>Instead of using coal,\u00a0wood or other plant material\u00a0can be used to produce hydrogen from coal using the same process.\u00a0 If it is harvested sustainably the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere will equal the amount absorbed by the plants grown for this purpose.\u00a0 Currently coal is cheaper than plant material but this is may change once the cost of sequestering emissions is included.<\/p>\n<h2>It Pollutes The Atmosphere<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to greenhouse gas emissions, coal to hydrogen will release various toxins into atmosphere including particulates, heavy metals, ozone, and other threats.\u00a0 Presumably this would be reduced if all the CO2 emissions were\u00a0sequestered.\u00a0 But stopping all pollution would not be cheap.<\/p>\n<h2>It Creates Dangerous Solid Waste<\/h2>\n<p>After making hydrogen from Victorian brown coal what will be left is a low quality soft coke.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-to-hydrogen\/#en-25746-4' id='enref-25746-4' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(25746)'>4<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0 Unlike hard coke it&#8217;s not suitable for use in existing iron smelters.\u00a0 It is potentially dangerous because people might be tempted to burn this low quality coke\u00a0and this would result in carbon dioxide emissions.\u00a0 Hopefully Japan would refuse to buy hydrogen produced from coal where the waste coke is burned instead of carefully buried.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"The Dark Knight   Some Men Just Want To Watch The World Burn\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FNt0anp7WK8?start=7&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Hydrogen From Clean Renewable Energy Is Likely To Be Cheaper<\/h2>\n<p>Hydrogen can be produced from water plus electricity with 80% efficiency.\u00a0 This means it would take 50 kilowatt-hours to produce one kilogram of hydrogen.\u00a0 This year the average wholesale spot price of electricity in Australia has been over 8 cents a kilowatt-hour and at that price it would need over $4 of electricity to produce 1 kilogram of hydrogen. \u00a0\u00a0 But this is not what it will actually cost because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expanding renewable generating capacity is putting downwards pressure on wholesale electricity prices.<\/li>\n<li>It is possible to only produce hydrogen when prices are low.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An electricity generator such as a solar power or wind farm could produce hydrogen when the price of electricity is low.\u00a0 If the electricity used to create hydrogen could instead have been sold for an average of 2 cents per kilowatt-hour, then the electricity cost per kilogram of hydrogen would come to $1.\u00a0 That&#8217;s less than an optimistic estimate of the cost of carbon dioxide sequestration for coal to hydrogen.<\/p>\n<p>It not quite that straightforward because if hydrogen isn&#8217;t being produced all the time it may make sense to use cheaper methods to make it, which are less efficient and so need more energy &#8211; but given we can expect renewable energy to continue to fall in cost, I doubt coal to hydrogen will be competitive in the future.<\/p>\n<h2>Japan May Not Want Our Hydrogen<\/h2>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think Australia should invest significant amounts of money into preparing to export hydrogen to Japan because at the moment there is no guarantee Japan will buy any significant amount of hydrogen from us.\u00a0 Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has said he wants a hydrogen economy but this doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;ll get one.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t even mean he actually wants one.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-to-hydrogen\/#en-25746-5' id='enref-25746-5' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(25746)'>5<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0 It may seem they want a hydrogen economy because Japan has invested around $2 billion in hydrogen research over the past 6 years, but they also spent around about $16 billion on nuclear research in that time and they&#8217;re not in a big hurry to build new nuclear reactors.<\/p>\n<p>The main uses touted for hydrogen in Japan are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Power vehicles<\/li>\n<li>Generate electricity<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The problem with hydrogen for road transport is battery electric vehicles have a huge head start over hydrogen ones in terms of numbers sold and price.\u00a0 In March in Norway 5,322 fully electric cars were sold.\u00a0 The number of hydrogen cars sold was four.\u00a0 At the moment I see no prospect of hydrogen cars falling in price faster than battery electric ones.<\/p>\n<p>While hydrogen can be used to generate electricity, this will only make sense if the cost of producing hydrogen in Australia, shipping it to Japan, and then using it to generate electricity is less than the cost of generating electricity in Japan.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/coal-to-hydrogen\/#en-25746-6' id='enref-25746-6' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(25746)'>6<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0 At the target price for 2030 of $4.20 a kilogram, if hydrogen is used to generate electricity with 50% efficiency the cost of hydrogen alone would come to 21 cents per kilowatt-hour.\u00a0 Given that Germany can now produce solar power from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/2018\/03\/20\/pv-has-the-lowest-lcoe-in-germany-finds-fraunhofer-ise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5.8 to 18 cents<\/a> per kilowatt-hour and electricity from German solar farms is expected to fall below 3.8 cents per kilowatt-hour by 2030, it is implausible that Japan with its better solar resources could not produce it for less in the future.\u00a0 If their Prime Minister wants a hydrogen economy I think he would have to be magically talented to get one.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/yerawizardabe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/yerawizardabe.jpg 621w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/yerawizardabe-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Coal To Hydrogen Is Unlikely To Be A Worthwhile Investment<\/h2>\n<p>Victorian brown coal is very cheap.\u00a0 It only costs a few dollars per tonne to dig it up.\u00a0 If health or the environment were not considerations, it would probably be a cheap way to create hydrogen from steam.\u00a0 But if there were no health or environmental considerations no one would produce hydrogen.\u00a0 We would just use good old coal gas like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Conan_Doyle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conan Doyle<\/a> used to huff or simply burn coal.<\/p>\n<p>Coal to hydrogen is\u00a0a bad investment for a number of reasons with three major ones being:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Renewable energy is likely to beat it on cost.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s likely to create harmful pollution.<\/li>\n<li>Japan changing to a large-scale hydrogen economy looks next to impossible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But lets say you are one of the politicians who are forking over a total of $100 million while saying coal to hydrogen is wonderful and will bring large amounts of money into the country.\u00a0 If that&#8217;s true then you&#8217;re being bloody stupid.\u00a0 If it&#8217;s as good as you say then the amount of money you need to hand over is $0.\u00a0 You could easily get industry &#8212; or possibly the Japanese Government &#8212; to foot the entire bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal and Victorian Governments are spending $100 million building\u00a0a Japanese coal to hydrogen demonstration plant.\u00a0 That&#8217;s $50 million each.\u00a0 Before any of you get upset at the cost, I&#8217;ll mention I originally thought it was $500 million, so we&#8217;re already $400 million better off than I thought we were a few hours ago.\u00a0 At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-and-the-environment","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Spending $100m On Coal To Hydrogen Project Is Stupid<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Coal to hydrogen is very polluting and very expensive. 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