Japan Looks to Promote a Hydrogen Society

[Caribbeans]

TheDiplomat.com | Daisuke Akimoto | January 04, 2023

In the upcoming ordinary session of the Diet to be held this month, the Japanese government plans to enact new legislation to financially support industries that are involved in the production and establishment of hydrogen and ammonia supply chains, as well as the development of relevant infrastructure. Needless to say, the envisaged legislation is designed to facilitate Japan’s goal of being carbon neutral by 2050.

The legislation will include regulations to exclude businesses that intend to produce hydrogen or ammonia using environmentally hazardous methods from receiving the government subsidy. In other words, the Japanese government will subsidize businesses that can produce and deal with “clean” hydrogen and ammonia.

During the seventh hydrogen policy subcommittee meeting held in December last year, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) compiled an interim arrangement plan to establish a supply chain system by around 2030 with a view to expanding the use of hydrogen and ammonia in the country. The plan proposed that the Japanese government would subsidize the difference in price between the two substances (hydrogen and ammonia) and existing fuels (fossil fuels) for 15 years. In the new subsidy system (called nesahoten in Japanese), the price of hydrogen will be cross-referenced with the price of liquefied natural gas (LNG), whereas the price of ammonia will be compared to that of coal.

The Japanese government also decided on the future energy policy at a session of the GX Implementation Council, which is chaired by Prime Minister Kishida Fumio. At the December 22 meeting, Kishida stated, “Steady efforts to gain trust from the public and local communities involved are indispensable in accelerating policy measures to deal with an energy crisis.” According to the energy strategy of the Kishida administration, more than 7 trillion yen in subsidies will be offered over the next 10 years to establish a hydrogen and ammonia supply network.In the upcoming ordinary session of the Diet to be held this month, the Japanese government plans to enact new legislation to financially support industries that are involved in the production and establishment of hydrogen and ammonia supply chains, as well as the development of relevant infrastructure. Needless to say, the envisaged legislation is designed to facilitate Japan’s goal of being carbon neutral by 2050...more
https://thediplomat.com/2023/01/japan-looks-to-promote-a-hydrogen-society/?h2fd

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Japan’s Okinawa Electric Power Co. has introduced PV curtailment measures in response to high solar radiation levels and low energy demand.

Okinawa Electric Power Co. has curtailed electricity supplied by solar plants and other renewables for the first time. The Japanese utility said it was forced to apply the measures in response to high solar radiation levels and low energy demand during the holiday period.

The control period will span from 8 am (GMT+9) to 4 pm and will be applied for at least three days, depending on the weather and demand conditions, the company said. It noted that the measure was applied from Jan. 1, when electricity demand reached approximately 669 MW against 738 MW of supply.

Okinawa is Japan's southernmost prefecture of Japan. According to the the Okinawa Times, the prefecture currently hosts around 1,400 solar installations...
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/01/02/japans-okinawa-prefecture-applies-solar-curtailment-for-first-time/

Would you rather have 30% of something or 100% of nothing?

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In the future, do you think there will be MORE excess renewable energy

or LESS excess renewable energy?

[mitch96]

1. As long as it's green hydrogen I'm all in...nt

[NNadir]

2. There hasn't been excess so called "renewable energy" despite half a century of claiming it would...

...do everything.

Combined, after trillions of dollars squandered on them, this on a planet where billions of people lack clean water or decent food, solar and wind combined, in 2021 produced just 11 EJ out of 634 consumed by humanity.

Instead here's all the solar and wind garbage thinking has done:

Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa

Week beginning on December 25, 2022: 419.40 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 417.42 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 394.85 ppm
Last updated: January 04, 2022

I don't know what the people who hype the expensive, useless, solar and wind game care about, but what they clearly don't give a rat's ass about is climate change, land use, or the environmental cost of mining.

They're watching cartoons while the planet dies.

During the week beginning January 4, 1976, the year that the first issue of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere was 331.32 ppm. I don't know if the people who hype solar and wind junk - all of which will be landfill within 25 years - know how to add and subtract, but that's a change of over 88 ppm.

It would be interesting if the people who've been singing this cacophonic song for 46 years gave a shit, but clearly they don't.

They just chant, and chant, and chant, chant the same bullshit, year after year, decade after decade and muse about wasting energy for their bourgeois sensibilities without ever bothering to open a science book.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. You can be a millionaire and never pay taxes.

First, get a million dollars.

[honest.abe]

4. Eloon Muskrat must be worried about FCVs competing with his Teslas.

Importantly, it has been pointed out that FCVs “may yet threaten Tesla” given the fact that Toyota, the world’s second largest automaker, has made consistent and strategic commitments to FCVs in collaboration with Honda. Therefore, major automakers in Japan and the world still find FCVs promising, and it has been argued that FCVs could be Tesla’s “biggest threat” in the future. In terms of recharging, for example, FCVs are superior to EVs because the hydrogen tank can be refilled in less than five minutes at a hydrogen station, whereas it takes about 15 minutes for EVs to be charged from 30 to 50 percent. It takes about an hour for EVs to fully recharge at a charging station.