Star Scientific has only a handful of employees and is decades away from having a commercially viable product. Yet it’s the Coalition’s energy hero.
The poster child for the government’s “technology over taxes” climate policy is Star Scientific, a small hydrogen company based on the NSW Central Coast. But what exactly is it, and what does it do?
It has only a handful of employees and by its own admission is years away from having a commercially viable product. But that hasn’t stopped the prime minister from holding it up as symbolic of its commitment to address climate change — even as his government piles money into fossil fuels.
Hydrogen hype
Scott Morrison used Star Scientific’s headquarters as the site of a press conference and photo-op last week where he talked up the prospects of new hydrogen technologies to help lower emissions.
We’ll let you keep reading about the government’s hydrogen push in one moment…
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