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The Power of Hydrogen: The emergent eco-social relations of the capitalist hydrogen economy

Arsenault, Dominique Félix LU (2023) HEKM51 20231
Human Geography
Department of Human Geography
Human Ecology
Abstract
The production, use and trade of hydrogen fuels as an energy medium across different sectors – the hydrogen economy – is being articulated as a vision of the future by various global energy actors. Hydrogen’s spatio-temporal profile makes it suitable to integrate into the fossil fuel landscape and reproducing the economic power embedded within it. Through a thematic analysis of documents shaping the emergent hydrogen economy, we can see the integration of fossil fuels and their infrastructure into this economy, producing a dynamic of mitigation deterrence, as well as an entrenchment of relations of ecologically unequal exchange in the global distribution of the economy. Ultimately, the hydrogen economy is understood to embody extractivist... (More)
The production, use and trade of hydrogen fuels as an energy medium across different sectors – the hydrogen economy – is being articulated as a vision of the future by various global energy actors. Hydrogen’s spatio-temporal profile makes it suitable to integrate into the fossil fuel landscape and reproducing the economic power embedded within it. Through a thematic analysis of documents shaping the emergent hydrogen economy, we can see the integration of fossil fuels and their infrastructure into this economy, producing a dynamic of mitigation deterrence, as well as an entrenchment of relations of ecologically unequal exchange in the global distribution of the economy. Ultimately, the hydrogen economy is understood to embody extractivist eco-social relations. Building a political movement and alternative economic vision through ecosocialism is argued as key to challenging the power of this emergent economy. (Less)
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Arsenault, Dominique Félix LU
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HEKM51 20231
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H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
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English
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9114713
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  abstract     = {{The production, use and trade of hydrogen fuels as an energy medium across different sectors – the hydrogen economy – is being articulated as a vision of the future by various global energy actors. Hydrogen’s spatio-temporal profile makes it suitable to integrate into the fossil fuel landscape and reproducing the economic power embedded within it. Through a thematic analysis of documents shaping the emergent hydrogen economy, we can see the integration of fossil fuels and their infrastructure into this economy, producing a dynamic of mitigation deterrence, as well as an entrenchment of relations of ecologically unequal exchange in the global distribution of the economy. Ultimately, the hydrogen economy is understood to embody extractivist eco-social relations. Building a political movement and alternative economic vision through ecosocialism is argued as key to challenging the power of this emergent economy.}},
  author       = {{Arsenault, Dominique Félix}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Power of Hydrogen: The emergent eco-social relations of the capitalist hydrogen economy}},
  year         = {{2023}},
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