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Keith D. Patch
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@mitcheme.bsky.social‬ with 40+ years leading green hydrogen #H2 & #decarbonization technology/business/innovation. Posts/Links/QPs mine, not my clients', & ≠ endorsements.
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Quick recap of my 2019 consulting travels:
1 Emissions Reduction Alberta
2 Carbon Engineering @CarbonEngineer
3 BHP Spence copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert
4 Chilean Ministry of Energy @gobiernodechile.bsky.social #MinEnergia
#hydrogen #H2 #fuelcell
Norma Jeen ‪@normajeen.bsky.social ‬, thank you so much for including me with these worthy resistors!

And you are right, without these insane US tariffs, China would still be buying our soybeans, etc. And there would be no need to bailout our hard-working farmers! And inflation would be far lower!!
December 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
NOTE, besides Gates' 10-year old Modern Hydrogen pyrolysis firm shutting down, US' Monolith Materials shut down this summer.⬇️

NB: €30MM Series A Spark @spark_cleantech claims their magic nanopulsed plasma is their secret sauce for turquoise H2. IMO balance-of-plant is the key!
#hydrogen #H2
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Agami Zero wins seed funding at @rasei.bsky.social

1-Agami claims magnetic fields improve water electrolysis to make cheap green hydrogen
2-Agami website doesn't mention hydrogen⬇️
3-20yr ago while at Giner Inc we looked at magnetism: no better than placebo
#H2 #hydrogen #GreenHydrogen #electrolysis
December 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Keith D. Patch
When you need maximum uptime with the fewest number of vehicles hydrogen wins hands down.
December 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Reposted by Keith D. Patch
L.A. Kicks Coal As It Fires Up The World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Power Plant

www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
L.A. Kicks Coal As It Fires Up The World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Power Plant
The city starts getting electricity next month from hydrogen made at a Utah plant – and stored beneath it in a vast salt cavern – to help get to 100% carbon-free power.
www.forbes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
How can you say that a hydrogen train will not be built? There is a Calgary Region Hydrogen Hub @calgaryhydrogen.ca, and plenty of provincial & federal support for low-carbon solutions!
bsky.app/profile/keit...
#hydrogen #H2 #GreenHydrogen
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
#Hydrogen101 #H2Safety
In Oman, Netherlands' H2-Fuel & HydroFlexx ↙️lie about their "new" powdered sodium borohydride hydrogen carrier:
-NaBH4→H2 not a new idea (ca. 1950s)
-High #hydrogen density-NO (lower than 700Bar gaseous #H2 )↘️
-Non-flammable-NO↘️↘️
-Non-toxic-NO↘️↘️
December 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
#SystemsEngineering101
Systems Engineering, meet Industrial Policy⬇️

UCSD Barry Naughton's pastiche of #TRL #MRL #IRL #SRL #CRL #ARL is used to describe China's government intervention in their industrial economy as the Innovation Chain.

URL & acronyms in reply
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reposted by Keith D. Patch
Walmart helps create Chile's first green-hydrogen long-haul truck

www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...
Walmart helps create Chile’s first green-hydrogen long-haul truck - UPI.com
After a $15 million investment, Chile has built the first long-haul truck designed to run on green hydrogen, meaning it emits no carbon dioxide.
www.upi.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
#Safety101
Naysayers focus on the few hydrogen fires, ignoring all the lithium ion battery #LIB fires:

Grid-scale
EV cars/bikes/scooters
Vapes
Ship & air battery transport
Battery manufacturing

Ryan Fogelman in #Waste360 highlights the record number of #LIB fires in waste and recycling plants!
December 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“The energy crisis we face today is unlike the crisis that gave rise to NREL,” said Assistant Secretary of Energy (EERE) Audrey Robertson.

Oh sure, as promised, gasoline is $2 per gallon and dropping, electricity prices haven't been going up twice as fast as inflation, etc...
Guess this was inevitable:
An administration that doesn't believe in renewable energy has renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), its moniker for +50 years, the National Laboratory of the Rockies www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
December 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Another hydrogen-related industrial accident: at an edible oil factory in Paraguay; 3 injured.↙️

It was similar to the 2025Sep21 Louisville, Kentucky explosion that killed 1.↘️

The "tanks" were hi-pressure, hi-temperature #H2 chemical reactors making hydrogenated vegetable oil #HVO #transfats
December 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This post buries the lede: besides helium, these old bore holes have +1,000ppm (limit of their handheld instruments) of natural hydrogen!!
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
So sad that #climatechange is forcing changes to growing coffee beans, with the wonderful arabica being hurt by warmer, dryer, conditions that bring more disease.

The result, switching to more robusta beans, a more bitter bean that can tolerate higher temperatures and is more resistant to diseases.
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
1) NovaSpark Energy lies: no patent, only a patent app on an atmospheric water generator supplying water to an electrolyzer to make hydrogen in the field↙️
2) They claim "portable" MW-class systems. 1MW requires a 5acre / 2hectare PV array, which would take much effort to disassemble-move-reassemble!
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
#H2Safety101 A thread 1/2
Helium is expensive to fill balloons, so some vendors are using cheaper, home-made hydrogen gas mixes, despite the major safety risks.
BUT, they don't make pure #H2 from water (H2O), but a mixture of #hydrogen & #oxygen. All you need is a tiny spark & boom💥
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Reposted by Keith D. Patch
Exciting times ahead! 🌱 This research highlights the paths to a greener future with hydrogen. Let’s harness this potential for real climate impact! 💚

#cleanenergy #hydrogenrevolution
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Reposted by Keith D. Patch
"The Aerojet LR87 was the only engine known in the world that was operated (with modifications) using all three major propellant combinations: kerosene RP-1 and liquid oxygen; storable hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide; and liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen." www.astronautix.com/l/lr87.html
LR87
LR87
www.astronautix.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Reposted by Keith D. Patch
Please check out and share this amazing
Friendsgiving pack
Done up by
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November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Reposted by Keith D. Patch
Please check out and share this amazing
Friendsgiving pack
Done up by
@bluthrunthru.bsky.social

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November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Reposted by Keith D. Patch
🥳Welcome to the🥳
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Lets celebrate our amazing
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November 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Howdy Cheryl!

And thank you so much for including me with all these Fighters for Democracy!

Looks like some nice new friends to follow (and on List #21 as well!💙💙💙
#StrongerTogether
This pack is a celebration of me reaching 75K (1 of 2).

Fighters of Democracy, Keep Resisting!

Please Follow and Repost.

Even if you're not on the list, Reposting help give you exposure and gives your account a boost.

We are #StrongerTogether

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November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
#hydrogen101
Orkney's Kirkwall Airport @KOIAirport demos 100% hydrogen internal combustion engine #ICE combined heat & power #CHP

2G Energy @2GEnergy #greenhydrogen CHP system specs: 115 kWe / 129kW thermal.

Note: KOI could have used a 244kWe #H2 fuel cell & also done summertime cooling!
#hydrogen
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM