Michael Barnard

Toyota keeps appearing behind hydrogen transport deals as supplier, customer, fuel backstop and station supporter. That is not market pull.

Toyota's latest hydrogen truck move is not interesting because it is large. Forty trucks is not a large order in a global transport market.

The only circular economy many opponents of climate action seem to have mastered is that of bad arguments. That doesn't mean the rest of us have to be surprised each time.

CEE Bankwatch's May 2026 report, Hydrogen buses in Poland: Where did it all go wrong?, is useful because it moves the hydrogen bus debate out of the brochure and into the depot.

A new Bankwatch report shows Poland’s hydrogen buses facing high fuel costs, fragile supply chains and cities shifting back to battery-electric buses.

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Hydrostor’s Quinte project targets a real Ontario grid need, but the outside view suggests higher cost, longer schedules, and deeper risk than BESS.

Ontario does not need another storage technology startup searching for a problem today.

Africa added 4.5 GW of solar in 2025 but imported 18.2 GW of modules, meaning a larger hidden market in mines, rooftops, mini-grids and diesel displacement.

At the start of 2026, I predicted that Africa would surprise a lot of observers with solar deployment this year.