Turquoise hydrogen still too expensive at $9.6/kg

This article will go into a detailed price calculation for turquoise hydrogen – but first, we need to ask where turquoise hydrogen ranks on the greenwashing spectrum. The short answer is, not as bad as blue hydrogen, but still relatively high up due to fugitive emissions from methane (CH4) extraction. Finnish developer Hycamite doesn’t seem to be deterred by that, as it has commenced construction of Europe’s largest turquoise hydrogen facility, located in Kokkola Industrial Park, central Finland. The project aims to produce 2,000 tons of turquoise hydrogen annually through methane pyrolysis, which involves heating natural gas in the absence of air inside a pyrolysis oven. This results in the formation of hydrogen and solid carbon, known as carbon black,…