We can go two ways. Either we squander the lead, or we grow it.
Fortunately, very little in this strategy depends on American investment or American technology. For instance
"Shell’s Scotford Upgrader captured 77% of its carbon emissions in 2022 ..."
"ArcelorMittal Dofasco in Ontario plans to end the use of coal in its plants,..."
"inclusion of hydrogen in the Canada-EU High-Level Energy Dialogue, active since 2007, where Canada and the EU collaborate on mutual goals ..."
"the Canada-Japan Energy Policy Dialogue, active since 2019, which signed an updated Action Plan for 2023 to 2025 ..."
"the May 2023 Memorandum of Understanding with South Korea on cooperation in critical mineral supply chains, the clean energy tran..."
"the August 2022 Joint Declaration of Intent to establish a Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance, which seeks to create ...
"the 2021 Memorandum of Understanding between Canada and the Netherlands on cooperation in the field of hydrogen energy, w..."
"In the East, Atlantic Canada’s abundant and untapped wind resources and immediate proximity to Atlantic shipping routes will allow wind-to-hydrogen electrolysis projects to become reliable suppliers of clean hydrogen to Germany and other European markets. Germany has announced its intention to import up to 50-70 percent of its hydroge..."
Are all points that reflect a Canadian strategy to globalize our hydrogen policies.
Incidentally, recent developments and explorations on naturally-occurring free (unbound to other elements) hydrogen deposits, once thought impossible, now indicate that Canada's unique geology of natural rock formations could make it one of the world's largest sources of naturally-occurring free hydrogen. Enough to power the world for hundreds of years.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bakx-white-hydrogen-natural-mali-1.7094645
And Newfoundland-Labrador, with its abundance of renewable electrical generation, could make it a world center for hydrogen from electrolysis (it is now one of the leading world centers for current projects).
Let's not drop the ball on this one,, or let the Americans take it away from us like they did the Avro.
Hydrogen might be interesting, and it may work in some instances/industries but it is very unlikely to work in others.
Long distance freight by railway? Hell yeah I see hydrogen trains happening. Planes? Very unlikely but possibly. Boats? Seems plausible to me. Static energy storage/facility level distribution? It will work but will leak its own gases anyway when perfectly airtight options are there. Hydrogen automobiles? Not worth it, Toyota has already tried that hand for way longer than anyone else and is hardly getting anywhere.
Electric cars, hydrogen cars and gasoline cars are neat but they aren't there to solve the climate crisis but to solve the personal automotive industry crisis. It's really commercial transport and other uses that really could use these.
Hah, you're right.Let's just keep destgroying our climate and environment by doing things the way we always have.
Let other nations develop the technology and become strong, while we just become weaker and weaker.
Hey, maybe that is really what you want?
We could rezone housing and build mass transit, make our cities actually workable in a low carbon world. Instead of borrowing money to pay extortionate developer fees in order to keep property taxes low on single family homes.
Yes, we can and are doing all that. We can also tap our energy resources and ship energy (via ammonia/hydrogen) to Europe, Japan,, and Korea to help pay for all of those things.