[Tech1] German hydrogen strategy

[Bernard Newnham]

It's all very well having a strategy, but as the Queen said - "Don't 
just talk - act".

For a while at the BBC, just before I escaped, I was attached to an 
admin department that had a budget for training, and as a working 
producer (when I could), my job was to advise on where to funnel the 
money they had. It was a sensible thing to do on the part of the woman 
who ran the department, as she acknowledged that she had no idea about 
tv or radio.   What it did for me was to expose me to a part of the BBC 
that I knew about but had never been near. An area that produced 
strategy documents and had lots of meetings with croissants and coffee 
but never quite did anything.

There wasn't much friction between me and them - I spent a good bit of 
that time making my bomb disposal film in muddy fields - but there was a 
moment....   The office secretary, young and not knowing the ways of BBC 
admin, suggested that we run a day in a studio where people who never 
got near the sharp end could try out being a camera person, or 
whatever.  It seemed like a good idea to me, so I chatted up lots of 
people and we ran it in TC3 for a day.  In the run up though, one of my 
HR colleagues in the office, during a meeting, said "You're in our world 
now Bernie".   I said "No, you're in my world, because if I don't make 
this happen, it won't".   Two completely different cultures in one office.

So - you can write all the strategy documents you want - it's cheap and 
people think your doing something - but someone has to actually do.

B




On 28/10/2021 22:44, Alan Taylor via Tech1 wrote:
> Further to the recent discussion about hydrogen power, some might be 
> interested in this fairly lengthy but detailed report about how a 
> Germany is approaching it.
>
> https://www.csis.org/analysis/germanys-hydrogen-industrial-strategy
>
> Alan Taylor
>
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