据能源转型4月22日消息称，澳大利亚总理已提议在氢和碳封存项目上额外投资5.39亿澳元（合4.17亿美元。
澳大利亚总理斯科特·莫里森表示，用于建设新的氢生产中心和碳捕获技术的资金将创造2500多个就业岗位，同时减少澳大利亚的温室气体排放。
莫里森在一份声明中说:“我们现在投资于将支持我们行业未来发展的技术，以及能够支持澳大利亚就业的低排放能源，这对澳大利亚的成功至关重要。”
他补充说：“我们不能假装世界没有改变。如果我们这样做，我们就会面临失业的风险，尤其是在一些地区。”
政府将于5月11日公布下一财政年度的经济蓝图，详细说明这笔资金。这项开支需要议会的批准。
一半多一点的资金将用于将澳大利亚地区的氢生产中心从1个增加到5个。中心是氢生产商、用户和出口商集中在一起的地区。
澳大利亚已经是世界上最大的液化天然气和煤炭出口国之一，这两种化石燃料都具有污染性。政府希望澳大利亚在2030年前成为全球主要的氢供应国，目标是将生产成本降低到每公斤(2.2磅)不到2澳元(1.54美元)。
澳大利亚拥有世界上最大的碳捕获和储存设施，位于西北海岸巴罗岛的雪佛龙Gorgon天然气项目。自2019年开始运营以来，该项目已储存了400多万吨(440万美国吨)的碳排放。新的资金将用于加速新的碳捕获中心和技术的开发。
朱佳妮 摘译自 能源转型
原文如下：
Australia plans to spend $417 M on hydrogen, carbon capture
Australia's prime minister has proposed spending an extra 539 million Australian dollars ($417 million) on hydrogen and carbon sequestration projects.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the money to be spent on building new hydrogen-producing hubs and carbon capture technologies would create more than 2,500 jobs while reducing Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.
"It is essential we position Australia to succeed by investing now in the technologies that will support our industries into the future, with lower emissions energy that can support Australian jobs," Morrison said in a statement.
"We cannot pretend the world is not changing. If we do, we run the risk of stranding jobs in this country, especially in regional areas," he added.
The funding will be detailed in the government's economic blueprint for the next fiscal year which will be made public on May 11. The spending requires Parliament's approval.
A little over half the money would be spent on increasing the number of hydrogen-producing hubs in regional Australia from one to five. A hub is a region where hydrogen producers, users and exporters are located together.
Australia is already one of the world's largest exporters of liquified natural gas and coal, both polluting fossil fuels. The government wants Australia to become a major global hydrogen supplier by 2030, aiming to reduce production costs to less than AU$2 ($1.54) a kilogram (2.2 pounds).
Australia is home to the world's largest carbon capture and storage facility at Chevron's Gorgon natural gas project on Barrow Island off its northwest coast. The project has stored more than 4 million metric tons (4.4 million U.S. tons) of carbon emissions since it started operating in 2019. New money would be spent on accelerating development of a new carbon capture hub and technologies.
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