Are we heading towards a hydrogen powered world?

Ten times the energy density of a lithium battery, in a simple magnesium-based paste that can be refilled at a pump or changed out in cartridges. Fraunhofer’s Powerpaste offers a safe, convenient, high-density way to store, transport and use H2 energy.   Read more

Where will hydrogen fit in the clean transport mix? Not in trucking, says one of the world’s largest heavy duty vehicle manufacturers, which is scaling back its fuel cell big-rig research and development operations in favor of battery-electric power.   Read more

Australian company Lavo has debuted a hydrogen production, storage and conversion system for the home. It stores up to two days’ worth of energy from your rooftop solar – and should outlast a lithium battery by many years. So what’s the catch?   Read more

German multinational Thysenkrupp has won the contract to build and operate a huge hydro-electrolysis facility in Quebec, which will use one of the world’s most powerful electrolyzers to produce some 11,100 metric tons of green hydrogen annually.   Read more

Blending renewably-generated hydrogen gas into existing natural gas pipelines could quickly and easily transport hydrogen across cities. SoCalGas is testing a system that can separate the H2 back out and compress it for use in fuel-cell vehicles.   Read more

With the move towards electric aviation comes new opportunities to explore what a powertrain looks like, and Airbus is experimenting with a new design that builds entire hydrogen propulsion units, tanks and all, into detachable pods along the wings.   Read more

NuScale Power has released the results of a new evaluation that indicates that a single small nuclear NuScale Power Module (NPM) reactor could economically produce almost 50 tonnes of hydrogen fuel per day by breaking apart water molecules.   Read more

Oil giant Shell is planning the biggest wind-to-hydrogen project in Europe, a colossal 10-gigawatt offshore wind farm in the North Sea feeding a massive electrolysis plant on dry land that’ll pump out a million tonnes of clean H2 a year by 2040.   Read more

UK gas distributor SGN has been given approval to supply hydrogen produced using renewables to around 300 Scottish homes. Participating households should be able to start heating their homes and cooking their meals with the gas from the end of 2022.   Read more

A team from Australia’s RMIT University says it’s figured out a cost-effective way to produce hydrogen using wastewater and sewage. The process not only produces clean H2 gas, it also captures all the carbon in human poop and puts it to valuable use.   Read more

A team of researchers has made a discovery that could help our clean energy efforts along, demonstrating how algal cells can be turned into tiny hydrogen-producing factories by immersing them in sugary droplets.   Read more