Claims

Green hydrogen is promoted as a 'smoke screen' because the renewable electricity required for large-scale green hydrogen production is economically and practically not viable, and every unit of renewable electricity used for hydrogen is electricity not available for direct electrification, making green hydrogen marketing primarily a delay tactic.

Electrification is the one clear solution that works across sectors (transport, heating, industrial processes where feasible) and should be prioritized absolutely, with hydrogen reserved only for specific chemical applications where no electrification alternative exists.

For shipping, a pragmatic decarbonization strategy would use all global biofuel production for shipping (rather than cars), hybrid sailing with sails plus biofuel, and if shipping is left at 0.5-1% residual emissions after electrifying all other sectors, that is an acceptable endpoint.

Government clean hydrogen standards that define hydrogen as 'clean' based on current electricity grid emissions will become outdated quickly as the grid decarbonizes, making hydrogen plants built today to meet current standards dirty within years, locking in decades of high-carbon operations for 30-year industrial facilities.

Hydrogen blending into gas infrastructure is marketed as a bridge solution but is actually a stalling tactic: even at maximum feasible 20% concentration, it only yields 6% emissions reductions, whereas simpler efficiency measures (operating boilers at condensing temperature) achieve greater reductions without capital expense.