There was a time when we had 10-20 years - that time has come and gone. See https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/72/12/1149/6764747 and https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17022023/climate-feedback-loop-accelerators/. Every single IPCC report has grossly underestimated the rate of climate change (not deliberately just a result of …
The problem today is that our governments in the west are largely "controlled", in one way or another, by fossil fuel interests, from lobbying, to the wrong people being elected, to the massive lies and greenwashing the public is being fed . This is the single most massive, and critical, failure of our economic systems.
H2 certainly has problems regarding transport but we have here in NA (I'm Canadian BTW) a vast infrastructure of O&G pipelines that can be used to move it. With the recent revelations of potentially massive stores of H2 underground (geologic forces creating it) it can be accessed all over the world reducing both cost to mine it and less need for transport https://www.science.org/content/article/hidden-hydrogen-earth-may-hold-vast-stores-renewable-carbon-free-fuel
"A new report published Wednesday details how the fossil fuel industry—with assistance from the Biden administration—has taken advantage of Russia's war on Ukraine to secure long-term methane gas export contracts that will lock in years of planet-warming emissions and further pad Big Oil's profits."
There was a time when we had 10-20 years - that time has come and gone. See https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/72/12/1149/6764747 and https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17022023/climate-feedback-loop-accelerators/. Every single IPCC report has grossly underestimated the rate of climate change (not deliberately just a result of the best science available at the time.)
The problem today is that our governments in the west are largely "controlled", in one way or another, by fossil fuel interests, from lobbying, to the wrong people being elected, to the massive lies and greenwashing the public is being fed . This is the single most massive, and critical, failure of our economic systems.
Then there is this https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/16/world-risks-descending-into-a-climate-doom-loop-warn-thinktanks - by expending our energy and $ to cope with the with escalating impacts of climate crisis could override tackling root cause.
H2 certainly has problems regarding transport but we have here in NA (I'm Canadian BTW) a vast infrastructure of O&G pipelines that can be used to move it. With the recent revelations of potentially massive stores of H2 underground (geologic forces creating it) it can be accessed all over the world reducing both cost to mine it and less need for transport https://www.science.org/content/article/hidden-hydrogen-earth-may-hold-vast-stores-renewable-carbon-free-fuel
Regarding my comment on politics being influenced by O&G lobbying etc. see https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-big-oil-gas-exports -
"A new report published Wednesday details how the fossil fuel industry—with assistance from the Biden administration—has taken advantage of Russia's war on Ukraine to secure long-term methane gas export contracts that will lock in years of planet-warming emissions and further pad Big Oil's profits."