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Seawater Electrolysis One of 10 Hydrogen Projects Funded to 'Accelerate Net Zero'
Seawater Electrolysis One of 10 Hydrogen Projects Funded to 'Accelerate Net Zero'
FCW Team | January 18, 2025
Seawater electrolysis, repurposing of offshore oil and gas assets for hydrogen production and storage, and decarbonised steel production will all be explored as part of 10 new hydrogen-focused projects.
The UK Hub for Research Challenges in Hydrogen and Alternative Liquid Fuels (UK HyRES) awarded a total of £3m to researchers working on the schemes today (17 January). Based at the University of Bath, HyRES is aimed at accelerating the net zero transition.
“We are delighted to welcome 10 new research projects to UK HyRES. The projects cover all our hub themes – hydrogen production, storage and end use and alternative carriers – and join the 14 core projects already underway in the hub,” said Professor Tim Mays, leader of the initiative.
“This gives UK HyRES a comprehensive base of top-tier research expertise to help answer the key questions around how we can use hydrogen and zero-carbon alternative liquid fuels to help reach net zero.”
The projects will seek to “address obstacles that currently stand in the way of greater adoption of hydrogen and low-carbon liquid fuels and seek to better understand ways to efficiently produce and use, and safely store and transport them,” an announcement said.
The schemes include:
Decoupled electrolysis of seawater...more
https://fuelcellsworks.com/2025/01/18/clean-hydrogen/seawater-electrolysis-one-of-10-hydrogen-projects-funded-to-accelerate-net-zero
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...degraded form of energy. The fossil fuel industries' efforts to greenwash themselves by claiming that filthy hydrogen is "green" is dishonest in the extreme.
On this planet, very little hydrogen is made - a trivial amount - by electrolysis, and that which is so made depends on electricity overwhelmingly produced using the combustion of dangerous fossil fuels and the dumping of the waste directly into the planetary atmosphere where it is killing it.
The caption:
Figure 1. Global current sources of H2 production (a), and H2 consumption sectors (b).
Progress on Catalyst Development for the Steam Reforming of Biomass and Waste Plastics Pyrolysis Volatiles: A Review Laura Santamaria, Gartzen Lopez, Enara Fernandez, Maria Cortazar, Aitor Arregi, Martin Olazar, and Javier Bilbao, Energy & Fuels 2021 35 (21), 17051-17084]
I referred to this graphic, and reproduced it, discussing a paper in the journal I discussed above here: The current sources and uses of hydrogen.
Happily the in the long history of hydrogen bullshit, now having extended over a period of half a century, has failed to make this scam viable, although the bullshit has never stopped, waned from time to time, but never stopped.
