Ambient Fuels’ Post

I went into the hydrogen business to help our heavy industries with their carbon footprint. CO2 emissions are still climbing, and the U.S. still isn’t doing enough to turn the tide. The Global Carbon Budget is a framework that tracks how much CO2 humanity emits and compares it to the amount the planet can absorb without causing dangerous warming. It’s like a financial budget, but instead of money, it’s about how much carbon we can “spend” before we exceed key temperature thresholds, like the 1.5°C goal. Right now, we’re burning through our Carbon Budget faster than ever, with no peak in sight. Global CO2 emissions are expected to reach 37.4 billion metric tons for 2024, once again breaking the record. For the U.S., this means we have a shrinking window to make big changes. If we don’t slash emissions quickly, we’ll blow our carbon budget and face devastating consequences from extreme weather, rising sea levels, and economic instability. As “once in 1,000 years” disasters become more common, we’ll end up paying heavy costs for recovery and mitigation. Every ton of CO2 emitted puts us closer to overspending — and the consequences of overdrawing this “account” are irreversible. A third of U.S. carbon emissions come from processes that can’t be decarbonized with renewable electricity on its own — like ammonia, the basis for crop fertilizers worldwide, or generating high-temperature industrial heat. We need clean molecules like green hydrogen, made by electrolyzers from wind and solar power and water, to take on the toughest decarbonization challenges we face. We can even make renewable liquid fuels from these molecules, energy-dense enough to power jet planes. The technology is commercially ready to make big cuts to our economy-wide carbon footprint and the urgency to act has never been higher. #ActOnClimate #CarbonBudget #Decarbonization #GreenHydrogen