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    🇩🇪🇵🇱🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪🇫🇮 Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland have begun talks on the construction of a hydrogen pipeline. 🫡

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    1. Several_Ant_9867 on

      Why transport hydrogen for so many kilometers when you can transport electricity with minimal losses and hydrolyze water where the hydrogen is actually needed?

    2. WWWeirdGuy on

      I can understand the justification for hydrogen since it’s a byproduct of some Industrial processes, but does a hydrogen pipeline of this size make economic sense?

    9. Moosplauze on

      Put a hydrogen pipeline on the seafloor in front of a Russian harbor, what could possibly go wrong…

    11. ContractorCarrot on

      Love the collaboration, but hydrogen ain’t it.

      A metaphor thrown about a lot but that works well:

      Hydrogen is the Swiss Army knife of energy solutions. It *can* do almost anything. You could make your dinner with a Swiss Army knife, you could light a fire, you could saw down a tree. But, is it the best tool for the job? Just because you can do something someway doesn’t mean you should

    12. Filias9 on

      Hydrogen is not future. If you can get it cheaply, OK. But it has very small molecules. Working with it is too complicated for scale.

    13. cuacuacuac on

      God… I thought we had already passed over the Hydrogen stupidity… here we go again to burn public money into a failed business…

    14. Neon2266 on

      If only there existed an underground pipeline through the baltic sea that was capable of transporting hydrogen…

    15. Martinoqom on

      Meanwhile hydrogen inside the Baltic Sea (bounded to oxygen): __Am I a joke to you?__

      Obviously joking 🙂

      But have we any serious data about the need of this type of structure? Seems pretty wasteful.

    17. BrokkelPiloot on

      The hydrogen lobby (aka oil industry) is still trying hard to stay relevant. This makes zero sense from an engineering and therefore financial pov.

    19. MEDIVAC_FLYING_BY on

      From an Oil Engineering student standpoint it makes zero sense. We have technology to create hydrogen from methane (component of natural gas), so wouldn’t it be better, if we were transporting methane and then converse it to hydrogen when it is needed? Why bother with high pressures and insane amount of isolation when units like these are readily available to be built (even if quite costly)?..

    20. Tyr1326 on

      Incredibly stupid. Hydrogen is notorious for being hard to store and transport. Youd have fewer losses just using electricity.

    21. cocoeen on

      Just build hydrogen factories at the coast of the baltic sea, powered by solar and wind. no need for a pipeline.

    22. Sporlingling on

      Right through the suwalki gap. Maybe Königsberg should be deputinised before building the pipeline.

    24. zimon85 on

      The only hydrogen that makes sense to use is the “white” hydrogen in geological formations in France

    29. dustofdeath on

      Which one of these produces green hydrogen?

      Green H would only make sense in  equatorial regions with excess solar energy.

      And who’s the customer? Hydrogen cars are dead. EV is growing.

    32. caelestis42 on

      There were news just the other week that Germany had spent billions on a hydrogen pipeline that no one wanted to use, and now this??

    36. wordswillneverhurtme on

      Here’s my prediction: 2026-2028 talks, 2028-2032 planning, 2032-2036 construction, delay stretches it out to 2040.

    38. kimare16 on

      With the EU’s decision to fully phase out Russian gas by 2027, I really hope the **MIDCAT pipeline** (or an equivalent Iberian–Central Europe gas interconnection) is finally approved. Europe’s energy security can’t keep being held back by political hesitation, and hopefully Germany and France won’t block it again. We need real strategic alternatives, not stop-gap solutions.

    39. Bird5driB on

      Its great look in the future, but pls, pls finish that railbaltica first before starting another massive project. Main line cost in Latvia already has grown 7 times since 2017.

    41. kot-sie-stresuje on

      From talks to ready pipline it can be decades. Especially when area needs to be vacated by people. And Urbanization now complicates things, not like 70 years ago

    44. ExpressGovernment420 on

      Just don’t give money to my government, please 🙏. We have enough rich people driving fancy cars in Riga😂