Saving the World with hydrogen just took a step closer

Another new 250 million pounds about to go into the hydrogen basket by the end of the Month. Australians cannot buy in directly sadly.

Home - HydrogenOne Capital

The US plans to have no carbon emitting power by 2035 is fascinating to consider. 75 billion in US Government funds is possibly two hundred forty billion in private investment. 75% of US power is private utilities.

"In 2020, about 4,009 billion kilowatthours (kWh) (or about were generated at utility-scale electricity generation facilities in the United States.¹ About 60% of this electricity generation was from fossil fuels—coal, natural gas, petroleum, and other gases. About 20% was from nuclear energy, and about 20% was from renewable energy sources. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that an additional 42 billion kWh of electricity generation was from small-scale solar photovoltaic systems in 2020.²

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Allowing for growth - moving 60% + of 4.01 trillion kWh of electricity to non C02 emitting sources in 14 years has a race on with the gun gone off already! This map show every power plant in every US state.

Wind growth is amazing yet not a hope of getting close the required replacement!

Nuclear is really the only option by 2035 I suspect! Wind would have to double just to catch up with Nuclear in the US. Large and small scale nuclear is my bet.

This sounds like a great project to produce green hydrogen.

Plan to build world’s biggest renewable energy hub in Western Australia | Renewable energy | The Guardian

15,000acres reflecting heat back up from
Massive solar arrays. Which also reduce light to the ground.

Hmm what could possibly be the next big issue?

Perhaps this plague of oversized house fans and aluminium framed silicon wafers [emoji56]

At Tokyo 2020, hydrogen shows promise of a carbon-free future - Olympic News (olympics.com)

The Olympic Hydrogen City- Athletes Village - "athlete buses and heat water in the cafeterias, dormitories and training facilities"

"Olympic Partner Toyota, which also produced the world’s first hydrogen-powered cars in 2014, will supply approximately 500 Mirai fuel cell vehicles to the Games to help transport staff and officials. Toyota will also deliver 100 hydrogen fuel cell buses (FCBs) to ferry athletes around. Each bus has 10 hydrogen tanks to carry a total of 600 litres"

And " this will be the first time in Olympic history that the Olympic cauldron will be powered with hydrogen"

Not at all sure the colour of the Hydrogen used is important in this case. Showing the world it does and can occur is a key starting point. All the possible negative comment if it is grey hydrogen is also fine with me. It is then we can ask or show a scalable Australian hydrogen/Graphite C02 Negative process which would fit in almost any location all over the world.

I think it might be "Hideki Matsuyama" making history. I wonder if its with a flaming golf ball? "It remains unclear how the torch will enter the stadium for the opening ceremony; the games are due to begin on 23 July."

I am guessing how the Hydrogen Olympic cauldron will be lit up in a few days time.


One of the first countries to adopt a national hydrogen strategy in 2017, it is giving hydrogen a starring role at Tokyo 2020.

"With their immense reach and visibility, the Olympic Games are a great opportunity to demonstrate technologies which can help tackle today's challenges, such as climate change," said Marie Sallois in a release, Director for Corporate and Sustainable Development at the International Olympic Committee. "Tokyo 2020's showcasing of hydrogen is just one example of h ..



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This sounds like a great project to produce green hydrogen.

Plan to build world’s biggest renewable energy hub in Western Australia | Renewable energy | The Guardian

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And no doubt Gladys will want her cut too just like she's been trying to pinch back the majority of our GST return from the feds

JLR is planning a hydrogen Defender.

Land Rover Defender to run on hydrogen - carsales.com.au

And think. At the Olympics they will only need one refuelling point location.

Regards PhilipA

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is that the ship from Western Port in Vic? [biggrin] just kidding that ship is still being built

WA targets 12% of global renewable hydrogen export market by 2030

The 2030 target was outlined in the McGowan government’s State Infrastructure Strategy, a 20-year blueprint for planning and investment decisions, and focuses on cheaper renewable generation technologies and the state’s target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

That is HUGE plus. [thumbsupbig] Given the forecast is to just replace existing dirty hydrogen (70 Mt per year )and new needs for shipping and heavy transport, green steel and .... likely to be multiples of that 70 million tonnes per year.

With the "Global electrolysis capacity becoming operational annually, 2014-2023, historical and announced " showing as a mere fraction and growth rates in fuel Cells at a CARG (Compound annual rate of growth) which make to recent space rockets look slow and low altitude flights [biggrin]

You might think WA is dreaming? I assume they are smarter than your average state myself[biggrin]

1- Alameda-Contra Cost Transit District (AC Transit) has unveiled the first iteration of its zero-emission transit bus technology analysis (ZETBTA) study with hydrogen fuel cell buses achieving the highest total mileage.

The study is a robust side-by-side evaluation of the predominant engine technologies in use at transit agencies worldwide comparing hydrogen fuel cell electric buses (FCEB), battery electric (BEB), diesel hybrid and conventional diesel bus propulsion systems.

The study, that ran from July 2020 to December 2020 in the San Francisco Bay area, found that the FCEB’s had the highest fleet mileage out of all other options at 112,233 miles. link

2- China getting its skates on "Great Wall Motor wants to be among the top three hydrogen powertrain suppliers by 2025

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re 1. Noticed the Toyota FCEV Olymic buses cost a stupid amount! That seemed odd to new the Purchase cost comparison between an ICE buss and a FCEV buss was getting very close.

Proof and studies like the ZETBTA study are needed.

"Hyundai: Nexo (SUV), Elec CityFuel CellBus (city bus), and Xcient hydrogen truck (large truck). Hyundai are preparing for three additional models: STARIA (7-11 seater van), Solati (15-16 seater van), and Universe (express intercity bus)."

add Hyzon Motors, Hyundai, Toyota, Cummings and others this space
Alstrom H trains are now operating in Germany since 2018 and will be rolling out in "Germany, France and Italy for 59 trains"

Really looking forward to "Hyundai has joined forces with POSCO to launch a new innovation initiative to identify the best entrepreneurial, academic and technological projects related to hydrogen applications and technologies across the globe.Organised and support by InnMind, H2 Challenge is designed to become an open innovation platform for start-ups, academia and SMEs to share solutions and establish collaboration opportunities with Hyundai or POSCO"

Real data not LOOK AT ME style is needed.