The Dirtiest Power Project in the World

And why it’s a good idea

An old coal gasification plant (Canva)

Could you come up with a more emissions-intensive way to generate electricity than the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC)’s newly operating pilot plant? Situated in Australia’s Latrobe Valley in Victoria, they take brown coal, gasify it to make hydrogen, and release the CO2* into the atmosphere without carbon capture. Then they truck the hydrogen gas to…