Inner Mongolian authorities have approved construction of an 85-kilometer hydrogen pipeline which is to run from the Aohan Banner Industrial Park to the Yuanbaoshan Industrial Park, both in the Chifeng City municipality, transmitting 210,000 tons of hydrogen annually, with an investment cost of $59 million. Hydrogen pipelines are not often built yet – so we should use this example to give ourselves an appreciation for the cost such a project has in general. Rounding up the numbers, we find that a 100-kilometer, 300,000-tons-annual pipeline would cost $100 million, in northern China, which would equate to around $300 million if built in the West. This is only the second hydrogen pipeline project in Inner Mongolia at this scale, with others running…