Fossil Capitalism's Lock-ins
The Natural Gas-Hydrogen Nexus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4736029 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Szabó (0000-0002-8224-1013, Central European University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 91-110 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Capitalism Nature Socialism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5752 • E-ISSN: 1548-3290 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10455752.2020.1843186 |
| OpenAlex | W3105515477 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 37 |
This paper investigates the hypothesis that power relations in the current, fossil fuel-based capitalist system allow the natural gas industry to appropriate the notion of a hydrogen energy utopia and substitute a natural gas-based vision for a renewable-based one. Although the uptake of hydrogen as a fuel is still in its infancy, the push to decarbonise natural gas-consuming regions has spurred action by natural gas industry actors to capture future markets. In doing so, they are able to maintain their capital accumulation practices based on unsustainable resource exploitation. This paper looks at how the domains of economic competitiveness, infrastructures, (geo)politics, and ideology all underpin the power of the natural gas industry to the detriment of their renewable competitors. The European Union is discussed in more detail, since this is the first region where ambitious climate policy targets and natural gas consumption collide
Competitor analysis · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Fossil fuel · Fuel cells · Hydrogen economy · Hydrogen fuel · Management · Market economy · Natural gas · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Nexus (standard · Political science · Renewable energy · Waste management · Engineering · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Global Energy Security and Policy · Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems · Law
Hydrogen Discourse in the Mena Region
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The (green) hydrogen hype
More of the same? The structural dimension of incumbency in the formation of hydrogen expectations in Chile and the UK
Energy transition or transformation? Power and politics in the European natural gas industry’s trasformismo
Repurposing the grid
Imagining a hydrogen economy
Between energy transition and industrial revival
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures
Geographies of hydrogen
The global politics of the renewable energy transition and the non-substitutability hypothesis
A trapped green industrial policy? The challenges to lithium and green hydrogen development in Chile
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels
Hedging energy transition
Place-based allocation of R&D funding
Risk on steroids
Ecosocialists and Degrowth Advocates Should Work Together
The Bridge
Energy Transitions
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Energy and the English Industrial Revolution
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
EU Leadership in International Climate Policy
Path dependence in energy systems and economic development
Understanding carbon lock-in
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Petrocultures
Back to the future
Sustainability transitions and the state
A History of the British Gas Industry
Energopower
Carbon democracy
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |