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Tuesday, December 30, 2025
CRT is inevitable to achieve Net Zero, baseload power with zero fossil fuel,except for the start-up.
The CRT Master Narrative:
Why Deep Decarbonisation Needs Hydrogen and Carbon**
The global energy debate is often framed as a choice: electrons or molecules, batteries or hydrogen. This framing is incomplete — and it is the root of much confusion.
Deep decarbonisation is not about choosing a favourite technology.
It is about designing an energy system that adheres to physical laws.
The hydrogen misunderstanding
Critiques of hydrogen — including those famously voiced by Elon Musk — are not entirely wrong. They are simply conditional.
Hydrogen looks inefficient only if carbon-free, dispatchable baseload electricity already exists.
That system does not exist today.
As long as the electricity supply remains intermittent, seasonal, and grid-constrained, hydrogen cannot be evaluated merely as a round-trip storage medium. That framing ignores the real challenge.
The real challenge: energy continuity
Deep decarbonisation is not an energy efficiency problem.
It is an energy continuity problem.
The question is not:
How efficiently can we store electricity?
The question is:
How do we deliver zero-emission energy continuously, at scale, when nature is intermittent?
Batteries solve short-duration balancing.
They do not solve long-duration, industrial, or baseload energy needs.
When continuity is required, chemical energy carriers become unavoidable.
Why SpaceX quietly proves the point
There is a powerful, rarely acknowledged truth embedded in modern aerospace engineering.
When performance, density, reliability, and continuity are non-negotiable, even SpaceX does not use hydrogen as the primary fuel.
They use methane.
This is not ideology. It is physics.
Hydrogen is an excellent energy source,
but carbon-based molecules are superior energy carriers.
The real problem is not carbon itself —
it is fossil carbon that is not recycled.
Carbon is not the enemy — fossil extraction is
Carbon has always been nature’s preferred carrier of energy:
• Dense
• Stable
• Transportable
• Recyclable
The climate crisis did not arise because carbon exists.
It arose because humanity broke the carbon loop.
What CRT changes
Carbon Recycling Technology (CRT) restores that loop.
CRT:
• uses renewable hydrogen as the true energy input,
• recycles captured CO₂ into renewable methane,
• delivers high-density, dispatchable, baseload power, and
• eliminates the need for new fossil extraction.
In CRT, carbon is no longer an emission.
It is a reusable carrier that cycles endlessly.
Hydrogen supplies the energy.
Carbon carries it.
The corrected energy hierarchy
When the system boundary is drawn correctly, the hierarchy becomes clear:
• Electrons → best for short-range, instant use
• Batteries → best for short-duration storage
• Hydrogen → best renewable energy source
• Carbon molecules → best large-scale energy carriers
CRT integrates all four — without contradiction.
The inevitable conclusion
Hydrogen is not a waste of time.
Carbon is not the enemy.
Batteries are not enough.
Deep decarbonisation requires a closed carbon loop powered by renewable hydrogen.
That is not a belief.
It is a system solution dictated by thermodynamics.
CRT is simply the architecture that makes it possible.
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