Andrew Forrest, aka Twiggy Forrest, Australia’s third-favorite billionaire and inveterate promoter of the delusion of hydrogen for energy, recently provided the perfect example of a new trend: hydrogen climate harm denial. It’s something I’ve been watching grow for perhaps a year, just as I’ve been watching the increasing anger of hydrogen for energy advocates as they are confronted time and again with evidence that it’s not going to happen.
The occasion was his appearance on the Cleaning Up podcast, created by BNEF founder Michael Liebreich during the early days of COVID-19, and now featuring long-term UK climate policy driver Baroness Bryony Worthington as a co-host. It was Worthington who had the conversation with Forrest, and this exchange was part of their discussion.
Bryony Worthington: But it’s a fuel that happens to be a greenhouse gas that likes to escape and that essentially is hard to move around.
Andrew…
