electrolyzers

also referred to as: electrolyzer

15 statements across 6 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Mar 29, 2022 by Sheldon Kimber · across every show →

Everything said about electrolyzers, oldest first

Mar 29, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kimber: Electrolyzers will follow the same cost drop curve as solar and batteries
“It happened in solar. It then happened in wind. It's happening in batteries. It'll happen in electrolyzers.”
Sheldon Kimber Mar 29, 2022 ▶ 1:27 The ‘inevitable industries’ that will decarbonize the world [branded content]
Mar 29, 2022 positive
Insight
Kimber: Scaling hydrogen electrolyzers does not require radical scientific breakthroughs
“And so electrolyzers, for instance, while they're off, they're very clearly some great tech out there and there may be some breakthrough tech out there, it's not required, right? You can take technology that has been around for quite a while and with some incr…”
Sheldon Kimber Mar 29, 2022 ▶ 5:33 The ‘inevitable industries’ that will decarbonize the world [branded content]
Aug 3, 2023 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2050
Hydrogen electrolyzers could consume one-third of global power by 2050
“By twenty-fifty, under a net zero scenario, electrolyzers producing hydrogen take up a third of all electricity demand almost, just to power power themselves to produce hydrogen. So all of global, a third of all global electricity demand.”
Adi Basham Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 16:12 The high stakes debate over green hydrogen
Aug 3, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Largest operating electrolyzer outside China is only 20 megawatts
“The largest electrolyzer operating outside of China is just 20 megawatts in size.”
Adi Basham Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 17:39 The high stakes debate over green hydrogen
Aug 3, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hydrogen electrolyzers convert only around 70% of electricity input
“Electrolyzers are also not that efficient, only converting about 70% or so of the electricity that you supply into energy in the form of hydrogen.”
Adi Basham Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 15:40 The high stakes debate over green hydrogen
Aug 3, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Producing a kilogram of green hydrogen requires 50 kWh of power
“Each kilogram of hydrogen production today requires about 50 kilowatt hours of electricity to be supplied to that electrolyzer to produce that electricity.”
Adi Basham Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 15:32 The high stakes debate over green hydrogen
Aug 3, 2023 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Green hydrogen will become cheaper than blue hydrogen by 2030
“If we scaled it up to potentially hundreds of gigawatts by the end of the decade and going further, we expect the cost of that equipment to decline by 50, 60, or 70% or so, which really drives cost reductions of Green or renewable hydrogen below the cost of pr…”
Adi Basham Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 14:56 The high stakes debate over green hydrogen
Aug 3, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Global electrolyzer sales stand at one gigawatt annually, mostly in China
“We're selling about a gigawatt of them every year. Most of those are deployed in China.”
Adi Basham Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 17:34 The high stakes debate over green hydrogen
Aug 3, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Strict hydrogen rules could reduce emissions by 95% versus fossil fuels
“Stringent requirements, on the other hand, mean that your, that hydrogen production using electrolyzers is actually emissions reducing, potentially 95% lower than the fossil alternative that you have, and potentially even more if you consider all the positive …”
Adi Basham Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 10:07 The high stakes debate over green hydrogen
Mar 22, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
BNEF: Most Electrolyzers Lack Proven Capability for Hourly Matching
“Most electrolyzers on the market haven't proven that they can deal with the fluctuations needed for hourly matching, explained BNEF, hydrogen analyst, Pyle Core.”
Lisa Martine Jenkins Mar 22, 2024 ▶ 6:59 The Latitude: Could government rules hinder green hydrogen?
Apr 9, 2024 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
O'Donnell: Electrolyzers do not pencil below 50% capacity factor
“Electrolyzers that in principle can operate intermittently, but because of their capital costs, they don't pencil operating at capacity factors typically below 50%.”
John O'Donnell Apr 9, 2024 ▶ 24:24 The rise of heat batteries
Apr 9, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
O'Donnell: Rondo heat batteries cost $5/kW marginally at 98% efficiency
“A round of heat battery is not a 2000 dollar or 1000 dollar a kilowatt electrolyzer that delivers heat at 50% efficiency. It's about five dollars a kilowatt on a marginal basis for these electrical wire heaters, and it's 98% efficient at turning electricity in…”
John O'Donnell Apr 9, 2024 ▶ 14:59 The rise of heat batteries
Mar 12, 2025 bearish
Assertion Supported
Garabedian: Electrolyzers at $2,000/kW are unviable without massive subsidies
“Electrolyzers today in the 2000 dollars a kilowatt range, they're too expensive to produce economically viable Green hydrogen. And we're seeing this in projects all through the world. So where green hydrogen projects are being built, they're being built at pri…”
Rafi Garabedian Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 29:18 Electric Hydrogen’s bet on supersized electrolyzers
Mar 12, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Garabedian: Electric Hydrogen underestimated deep-tech customer acquisition challenges
“I think we underestimated the challenges of deploying and customer acquisition, as you say at the scale that we operate at. And in hindsight, I think we should have also been far more scrutinous. Is that a word? We should apply a lot more scrutiny to our custo…”
Rafi Garabedian Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 27:21 Electric Hydrogen’s bet on supersized electrolyzers
Aug 13, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Graphitic Energy produces clean hydrogen for $2 to $3 per kilogram
“You know, I thought that decarbonized hydrogen had to come from an electrolyzer and cost, you know, six or nine dollars a kilogram. You guys can do this for two to three?”
Zach Jones Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 33:01 The rogue idea that saved a hydrogen startup
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