Hydrogen Podcasts

Episode 46 – My Favourite Martin: Wright’s Law, scaling up and why hydrogen won’t decarbonise energy products with Paul Martin

Episode 46 – My Favourite Martin: Wright’s Law, scaling up and why hydrogen won’t decarbonise energy products with Paul Martin

In this extended episode we had our first three-peat, with Paul Martin from Spitfire Research rejoining the podcast. When he first joined us in February and April of 2023, we had a terrific discussion on the diseconomies of scale, hydrogen and hopium, and it seemed timely to revisit the outlook for scale and technology transfer in the hydrogen market.

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Episode 20 – Hopium, Hydrogen & Scale with Paul Martin – Part 2

Episode 20 – Hopium, Hydrogen & Scale with Paul Martin – Part 2

In this episode we continue our discussions with Paul Martin exploring the challenges of clean hydrogen scale up, the market forces and Hopium driving current government and industry activity. We discuss distributed production of ammonia and urea and the impact of diseconomies of scale and consequences of parallelisation. We reflect on alternative feedstocks, such as lignocellulose, with a passing nod to our mutual colleague Paul Bryan, and how Wright’s Law of the cost benefits arising from increasing scale and experience may not apply as anticipated by many in the race to scale green hydrogen production.

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Episode 20 – Hopium, Hydrogen & Scale with Paul Martin – Part 2

Episode 18 – Hydrogen, Hopium & Scale with Paul Martin – Part 1

In this episode we explore with Paul Martin, the challenges of clean hydrogen scale up, the market forces, and Hopium driving current government and industry activity. In Part 1 of our discussions with Paul, we reflect on the history of hydrogen as a fuel, which traces it way back to the 1990s, the rise of Hopium and the associated belief systems that don’t pay the attention to thermodynamics that they should!

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