Israel approves national hydrogen pipeline to boost clean energy

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Israel approves national hydrogen pipeline to boost clean energy

Hydrogen-central.com | May 10, 2025

JERUSALEM, May 6 (Xinhua) — Israel’s National Planning and Building Council has approved the construction of a 400-kilometer national hydrogen pipeline, the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure announced on Tuesday.

The pipeline is slated to extend from the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel to the village of Eilot, near the Red Sea port city of Eilat in the far south.

The ministry stated the project aims to cut emissions and boost the proportion of clean energy in Israel’s power generation mix. Designed to traverse industrial zones, the pipeline will offer factories currently reliant on polluting fuels a cleaner alternative in hydrogen...more
https://hydrogen-central.com/israel-approves-national-hydrogen-pipeline-to-boost-clean-energy/

Apparently hydrogen bashers haven't told Israel that "hydrogen cannot be piped because of embrittlement"!!!

Imagine the embarrassment!

Hydrogen, a Pipeline to the Future | The Pipeline Industries Guild

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1. Apparently fossil fuel sales people haven't confessed that hydrogen is made from fossil fuels.

It's pretty fucking amusing that liars trying to greenwash fossil fuels as "hydrogen" put up a slick video with a featuring a map of Scotland when talking about building a risky hydrogen pipeline in Isreal.

I don't watch slick propaganda marketing videos put out by the fossil fuel industry to greenwash their product as "hydrogen," of course, since I'm a scientist and not a credulous rube, but it's possible that the video has something to do with Israel but who the fuck cares.

Hydrogen is made by the reformation of fossil fuels.

I certainly wouldn't want to live near a pipeline pumping filthy hydrogen, since for a trivial and useless industry hyped decade after decade for no practical result other than waste, hydrogen systems blow up regularly, because of the poor physical properties of the gas.

Here's a nice video, not a slick but dishonest and stupid marketing funded by the fossil fuel industry about a consumer hydrogen explosion:

Of course, there's science and scientists and there's marketing and marketeers from the rah, rah, rah fossil fuels advertised as "hydrogen" scam.

From the scientists, materials scientists:

Zahreddine Hafsi, Manoranjan Mishra, Sami Elaoud, Hydrogen embrittlement of steel pipelines during transients, Procedia Structural Integrity, Volume 13, 2018, Pages 210-217.

Note that the authors are referring to mixing hydrogen with its source material, natural gas and still it's a risk. It's beyond stupid to convert methane with an exergy loss to hydrogen, a gas with far worse physical properties, and it's simply a bald faced evil to pretend that the practice is either clean or green.

We expect contempt for science from the Trump people; it's bothersome, but not entirely unexpected to have contempt for science on DU. We do have cheap marketing here.