Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy Podcast
Welcome to Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, a podcast dedicated to unveiling the stories, insights, and strategies of the most influential leaders in the renewable energy sector. Our mission is to offer a platform where the voices of innovators, pioneers, and visionaries in renewable energy are amplified, sharing their journey, challenges, and triumphs with a global audience.
Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy Podcast
Building the Hydrogen Economy: Brian DeBruine on Breaking the Clean Energy Logjam
Why is hydrogen still missing from most clean energy conversations and what will finally unleash its full potential?
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, we sit down with Brian DeBruine, founder of the Colorado Hydrogen Network and host of the Hydrogen NowCast podcast. After a 36-year career at Honeywell Aerospace, Brian stepped out of retirement to help solve one of the energy transition’s most overlooked bottlenecks: the absence of a hydrogen market.
From building out infrastructure and educating fleets, to winning major federal grants and advocating for naturally occurring hydrogen, Brian is on a mission to accelerate what he calls the "molecular economy," a necessary complement to the electrify-everything narrative.
We cover a wide range of essential insights, including:
- Why hydrogen is uniquely suited for heavy-duty transport, industry, and chemical processes
- The surprising promise of natural hydrogen as a low-cost, renewable energy source
- What most clean energy advocates get wrong about adoption, infrastructure, and performance parity
- Why hydrogen is a business problem more than a technical one and how to break the stalemate
- How Brian’s nonprofit is aligning fleets, fuel stations, and producers to jumpstart the market
- Lessons from aerospace that now drive his work in clean energy systems and policy
- The pushback hydrogen often gets and why it’s time to move past all-or-nothing thinking
This episode is a masterclass in systems-level problem solving, delivered by someone turning ideas into real infrastructure. Whether you're deep in the energy sector or just curious about what comes next, this conversation will reframe how you think about the future of fuels.
🎧 Listen now to learn how we can build a hydrogen economy: faster, smarter, and together.
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