Part Four / What We’ve Done About It

Fossil-free Energy Sources

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  1. 96 per cent of hydrogen is currently being made from fossil fuels Vaughan, A., ‘Europe wants to use hydrogen to slow climate change – will it work?’, New Scientist, 7 July 2020, https://www.newscientist.com/article/2248140-europe-wants-to-use-hydrogen-to-slow-climate-change-will-it-work/#:~:text=Globally%2C%20around%2096%20per%20cent,coal%20and%20gas%20power%20stations.

    emitting more greenhouse gases than it was capturing Global Witness, ‘Hydrogen’s hidden emissions’, 20 January 2022, https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-gas/shell-hydrogen-true-emissions/

  2. 17 per cent of the emissions of fossil gas Gonzales, V., ‘Geothermal energy 101’, Resources for the Future, 11 September 2020, https://www.rff.org/publications/explainers/geothermal-energy-101/#:~:text=For%20comparison%2C%20geothermal%20fields%20only,type%20of%20fossil%2Dfuel%20plant.