All about Hydrogen

Woodside is serious about hydrogen, and we announced plans in April 2018 to develop export markets and Australian refuelling infrastructure.

Why are we getting into hydrogen?

Watch this to find out how hydrogen can be made, transported and stored, how it can be used, and why hydrogen is future energy, here today.

[RonieNerbes-mtko]

I Love Jonna Napire 💚💛❤️ MAY 18, 2024

[arielshikoba]

Came here to learn about "Hydrogen" and got a Commercial about the business of Hydrogen 😒

[danwiddon]

Add the data on your offset products to the video or its description.

The nod to electrolysis of water betrays that you rely exclusively on high energy splitting of methane molecules to liberate the hydrogen, all while claiming moral and commercial superiority if we trust the carbon-pricing market.

The carbon price needs to be well over $25AUS a tonne for it to serve its purpose of driving investment in green energy supplies. How much does Woodside pay to greenwash its methane cracking (carbon-intensive) profiteering?

[claudearchibald]

So offsets are your answer to making hydrogen "clean"?

[mihaleben]

Anyone forgot about hydrogen s chemical properties?

[mattdorsey]

Our planet is currently in a Co2 drought but as Co2 levels rise our planet will become greener. I do my part to increase Co2 levels and you should also.

[cmw]

The thing that confuses me is, that fuel, (wood, or anything organic such as plantmatter or coal) has energy. And all that energy came from stars right? And water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen. So, Why does water have energy? (Hydrogen)

[prezx.vspx]

i’m watching this to make an hydrogen edit

[sandrorein-hagen]

how is there so little comments on q 13k view video

[klosmaximus]

So....why are we still using gasoline?

[vanesaastore]

#SOSCondorSomuncura
Dear Sirs:
We write to you regarding an initiative of the government of Rio Negro province that may severely
affect the natural and cultural patrimony of the iconic Protected Natural Area (PNA) “Meseta del
Somuncura” and could lead to the extinction of the Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) in the Atlantic
coast of Patagonia. As is publicly known, the government of Río Negro is promoting the Green
Hydrogen industry, which could be considered an interesting initiative; however, we are extremely
concerned about the impact that the energy source that the firm Fortescue Future Industries S.A. is
proposing to use, based on the creation of a Mega Windfarm, may cause in the Somuncura
Protected Natural Area.
This important protected natural area, created in 1986, constitutes a well-defined landscape and
biogeographical unit in Northern Patagonia. The ecosystemic, geomorphologic, palaeontologic, and
archaeologic features of this plateau, as well as the endemisms found in the area, are the basis of
its extraordinary conservation value. Indeed, in Somuncura may be found numerous endemic
species, both of wild flora and of wild fauna, such as Lecanophora ruizleali (Malvaceae) and the
composite Grindelia pygmaea, fish like the naked characin Gymnocharacinus bergii, amphibians
such as the Somuncurian frog (Pleurodema somuncurense) and the spotted frog (Atelognathus
reverberii), lizards (Liolaemus petrophilus, L. somuncurae and Phymaturus somuncurensis), snails
like Potamolithus valchetensis and even an endemic viscacha (Lagidium viscacia somuncurensis). It
is worth noting that the site was declared an Area of Importance for Bird Conservation (AICA) by
BirdLife international, strengthening the character of key area for biodiversity conservation,
especially as regards the endemic bird species of the Monte ecoregion, in itself an endemic
ecoregion of Argentina.
As a result of a huge conservation effort, an initiative that was declared of cultural, scientific,
environmental, ecological, social and educational interest by the legislature of Río Negro province
(Declaration 586/2020), the Andean condor, a species that had been extinct in the Plateau for over
a century, has once again flown and reproduced in the Somuncura Plateau. This species was
declared protected and a Natural Monument by the province of Río Negro, because of its
endangered status and in support of the re-introduction activities in Somuncura (Law 5121/2016).
Additionally, the Honorable National Senate declared the Program for the Conservation of the
Andean Condor and its chapter The Return of the Condor to the Sea (VSP-1177/80) of scientific,
ecological and educational interest, which illustrates that the program has been widely valued both
by the Provincial and by the National governments.
The condor has no natural enemies, its life span is 75 years, individuals reach sexual maturity at the
age of 9 years and the breeding rate is one of the lowest among birds. Each couple raises one chick
every two or three years. The species is considered Vulnerable at the global level (BirdLife
International, IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020) and is protected under the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), of which Argentina is a
Party. Any factor of human origin that could increase its mortality could bring about a dramatic
population decline. For this reason, its future depends on our actions.
The species has a wingspan of approximately 3 meters. Its flight capacity depends on the thermal
and slope currents, which results in a poor flight maneuverability. As a consequence, condors have
great difficulty in eluding human made structures, such as the blades of wind turbines. For all of
these reasons, the species has been considered a high priority in Argentina, since the potential risks
associated to windfarms are significant (Interactions between Wildlife and Wind Energy in
Argentina: Conocimiento Científico y Prioridades para el Futuro. Palmer, Gordon and Petracci,
2017).
Based on the data collected in the framework of the Program for the Conservation of the Andean
Condor in Argentina, it can be asserted that this species uses the area proposed for the development
of the Mega Windfarm in Somuncura very intensively. Information from the Program is based on
field monitoring of 64 specimens liberated in Sierra Paileman during the last 20 years, on studies of
10 chicks born in the wild, the observation of wild specimens that have gone back to the area of
Somuncura Plateau and on data of satellite tracking of 40 condors of different ages, equipped with
satellite tracking devices, in the Atlantic coast of Patagonia, of which hundreds of thousands of data
on geopositioning were obtained.
Unfortunately, the lands that the province has selected to allow Fortescue to establish the
windfarms are located in areas that are intensively used by condors. In these areas the condors
concentrate their flights, roosting areas, feeding zones, and breeding sites, and therefore the impact
on these populations will be inevitable.
As emphasized in all the international guidelines (IFC of the World Bank, BID, European Union,
BirdLife) as well as in national ones (Good Practices for the Development of Wind Farms in
Argentina), the development of windfarms is a good option for the generation of “clean energies”,
as long as their establishment does not imply impacts on protected natural areas of importance or
on populations of wild species which could collide with the windmills.
The lack of baseline information forces us to act with caution in the face of the potential impact of
a Mega Windfarm in Somuncura could produce not only on condors but also on critically
endangered species like the Ruddy-headed Goose, shorebirds, raptors or bat species that inhabit
the area.
We know that windfarms are rapidly expanding in Argentina, but if their development is not
adequately planned, they can have a devastating effect on populations of birds and bats, especially
on critically endangered specieslike the Andean condor. This has been recently noted in Biodiversity
and Conservation (2021) 30:3305– 3307, in the article “Wind energy could be a threat to Andean
wildlife in Europe and North America (Guidelines for Impact Assessment of Windfarms on Birds and
Bats. BirdLife International; Renewables in Spain threaten biodiversity. Science, 11 Dec. 2020, Vol
Various factors are vital, like the number of windmills, their height, the distance among them, the
electric lines that could cause collision of wildlife with wires, the cumulative effect with other similar
initiatives and the impact of these developments on protected natural areas, flight routes and
nesting areas of birds and bats.
In Argentina we still need to achieve some urgent goals. On the one hand, the wildlife authorities
do not receive periodic reports on accident rates in windfarms that are already functioning in their
jurisdiction. This needs to be urgently changed, since this is the only reliable information to assess
the impact of windfarms on wildlife. And on the other hand, Environmental Impact Assessments
should take into account the cumulative impact, since a specimen of a species like the condor during
its long flights will eventually have to cross the windfarms established in several provinces and even
in other countries.
For all of the above reasons, we request: that the location of windfarms and the energy source to
be used by Fortescue Future Industries in Río Negro be urgently reassessed; that the wind farm be
not located within the Somuncura PNA, nor in other protected areas, nor in areas that are
intensively used by sensitive birds like the Andean Condor, and flying mammals, that the eventual
location of the windfarms be assessed following the guidelines for Good Practices for the
Development of Wind Energy in Argentina. On the other hand, should the province agree to identify
other sources of clean energy, such as the use of vectorial windmills with no blades, we note that
these models would not affect the flight of birds and bats.
For the last 20 years, we have been working successfully on the re-introduction of the Condor in the
Atlantic Coast of Patagonia. We have accomplished something awesome, an achievement that has
become a conservation reference worldwide. Should this initiative of establishing huge windfarms
in the Meseta de Somuncura Protected Natural Area thrive, this effort would have been in vain, and
we would no longer be able to liberate condors in Sierra Paileman, the only site in the country where
it is possible to reintroduce condors that have no flying experience in the wild.
We trust that you will weigh the antecedents, consider the environments and species that will be
gravely affected should this initiative progress and we hope that you will intervene to stop it, and
avoid that the windfarm be built in the Meseta del Somuncura PNA. As mentioned above, this would
represent a serious threat to several sensitive species and particularly to a species protected by
national laws, declared as endangered in Argentina, a natural monument in the province of Río
Negro and in various other provinces of Argentina, a cultural symbol in four South American
countries, and a key species on account of its ecological role and its unique relevance in all the
indigenous Andean cultures.
Thanking you for your attention and hoping to have a prompt and favorable response, we remain,
Sincerely yours

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Bloody music is at wrong, and volume is stupidly loud