It seems that I am the only one who has discovered, except those in
the oil Industry, & who took notice of what the oil companies said !
As announced at the AGM of Royal Dutch Shell at the Hague the CEO
said that the company had formed a group to study how the company
can best exit the oil industry.
The reason given is the cost of finding new oil fields and developing
them has become too costly.
A year or two later the company was restructured from separate companies
in each country to just one company registered in the UK.
That I think was related to their reconstruction program.
Peak CRUDE OIL occurred in 2005. Note not oil peaked. There is a difference.
Fracking is a temporary measure.
The motor companies got the message, did you ?

If we are to have green hydrogen that we can afford, we need affordable energy to create it! And that is not coal, gas, or battery backed renewables!

What remains is nuclear, but not just any nuclear, but MSR thorium, which despite a few solvable issues, has none of the major issues of conventional light water reactors!

And allows seawater to be considered as the source of green hydrogen. Which has several advantages over battery electrics, one and the most glaring is the fact that like thorium, we can never run out of it, any more than we can run out of seawater!

And brings in mum and dad refilling stations into the picture along with almost limitless range.

If you heat water high enough it will instantly decompose to its constituent properties, namely hydrogen and oxygen. the trick here is to just as immediately to cool and separate them.

The first may be possible with triangulated laser technology, the second through fractional distillation?

Other than that, we have electrolysis, which using an appropriate catalyst, can double production without any increase in the current, ampage or voltage.
Alan B.

If we are to have green hydrogen that any can afford, we need affordable energy to create it! And that is not coal, oil, gas, or battery backed renewables!

What remains is nuclear, but not just any nuclear, but MSR thorium, which despite a few now solved issues, has none of the major issues of conventional light water reactors!

And allows seawater to be considered as the source of green hydrogen. Which has several advantages over batteries, one and the most glaring is the fact that like thorium, we can never run out of it, any more than we can run out of seawater!

And brings in mum and dad refilling stations into the picture along with almost limitless range.

If you heat water high enough it will instantly decompose to its constituent properties, namely hydrogen and oxygen. the trick here is to just as immediately to cool and separate them.

The first may be possible with triangulated laser technology, the second through fractional distillation?

Other than that, we have electrolysis, which using an appropriate catalyst, can double production without any increase in the current, ampage or voltage.
Alan B.

The whole thing is stupid.
We close down one coal-fired power station, and China opens three.
They give their people cheap energy and industry, and we give our people a service job or welfare.

Heads need to be knocked together.
This whole 'international diplomacy brown-nosing' needs to stop.
More and more decisions in this country are dictated by foreigners and big business for their own interests.

Unelected bearucrats have weaponised the game and have become more powerful than the voice of a nations people, which has been disunified - by them and for them.

AC; yes the people are disunited due to government acceptance of the
global warming theory. I do not know what the ratio is for AGW but
I suspect the the majority believe we are heading for a melt down of
the planet. It is surprising how this is so because these imminent
climate disasters have been predicted for 30 years or more.
They talk about the rise in temperature since the "Little Ice Age"
minimum around 1800 known as the Maunder Minimum as the Global Warming.
The temperature will peak in the next 50 years if this the 8th known
cycle follows form.

New Info; Heard today that Shell has sold its UK and German operations
to another company. The name was something like Otis, I missed hearing
it properly and it was not repeated.
However, it looks like another step on the way out of the oil industry.