Everything About Hydrogen

The globe is awash in waste materials and trash. The detritus of everyday life, much of it in the form of plastics, piles up and has dramatically detrimental effects on the environment if not properly disposed of and managed. Some of these discarded materials are reusable and recyclable, but a significant percentage is comprised of non-recyclable plastics that are relegated to landfills.There are, however, a number of innovative companies and initiatives aimed at extracting energy from the otherwise non-recyclable plastic waste. Powerhouse Energy Plc is one of the companies leading the charge in the waste-to-energy sector, and they have some proprietary technologies that allow them to produce hydrogen from these plastics.On this episode of EAH, the team is joined by Tim Yeo, Chairman of Powerhouse Energy, to talk about the work they are doing in the waste-to-energy space and how they see the sector evolving in the coming years.Sponsor materials:This episode is brought to you by BayoTech On-Site Hydrogen. Visit www.bayotech.us to learn more about the modular low-carbon hydrogen production solutions that BayoTech offers.Links:Powerhouse Energy website: https://www.powerhouseenergy.net/Wired article about waste-to-hydrogen: https://www.wired.com/story/will-the-hydrogen-revolution-start-in-a-garbage-dump/Parliament site for Tim Yeo: https://members.parliament.uk/member/136/careerRenewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews paper on WtH applications: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032120306535#:~:text=Waste%2Dto%2DHydrogen%20(WtH,fuel%20to%20replace%20fossil%20fuels

When the pandemic recedes, lockdowns and restrictions are relaxed and eventually eliminated, and millions of residents in cities across the world begin to return to their offices and workplaces, public transit systems will once again be at the core of billions of commuters' daily activities. Urban transit systems are designed to move huge volumes of people through cities and communities quickly, reliably, and cost-efficiently (some systems accomplish these goals better than others!). The energy needed to run these networks of cars, trains, and buses, is enormous and today most of it comes from fossil fuels. How can communities - both large and small - redesign their transit systems to eliminate operational carbon emissions in the future?Josipa Petrunic, President & CEO of CUTRIC (Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium), spoke with the EAH hosts about the challenge of decarbonizing urban transit at the Hydrogen Decade Virtual Event on February 17, 2021. This episode features a recording of that interview. In the 30-minute conversation with Josipa, the discussion ranged from the advantages of FCEBs over battery-electric buses, FCEB demonstration and pilot projects in Canadian cities, how the Canadian government's national hydrogen strategy stacks up against other such strategies, the implications of the new US administration for the future of climate policy in North America, and much much more.Sponsor materials:This episode is brought to you by BayoTech On-Site Hydrogen. Visit www.bayotech.us to learn more about the modular low-carbon hydrogen production solutions that BayoTech offers.Links:CUTRIC website: https://cutric-crituc.org/Mississauga FCEB pilot project announcement: https://cutric-crituc.org/cutric-playing-central-role-in-groundbreaking-hydrogen-transit-study/CHFCA paper on Canadian leadership in H2 tech: http://www.chfca.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/GOC-CDA-Leadership-HFC_en_4pager_WEB1.pdfFCEBs in Canada: http://www.chfca.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/GOC-Buses_Train_en_WEB1.pdfAir Liquide announcement of Becancour PEM electrolysis plant: https://energies.airliquide.com/air-liquide-inaugurates-worlds-largest-low-carbon-hydrogen-membrane-based-production-unit-canadaEnbridge materials regarding H2 generation and blending: https://www.enbridgegas.com/Natural-Gas-and-the-Environment/Enbridge-A-Green-Future/Renewable-hydrogen

How do we get green hydrogen (and green ammonia) production to scale and make it cost competitive? It's a great question and we ask it all the time on the show. Well, Alicia Eastman, Co-founder & Managing Director, of InterContinental Energy (ICE) may be one of the best authorities in the world on this topic and she joins us on this episode of EAH to tell the team all about her and ICE's work developing the Asian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH). Located in Western Australia, the AREH when completed, will be the largest renewable energy project by total generation capacity on the planet. At 26 GW, it surpasses even the likes of the Three Gorges Dam and will act as a central production and distribution point for huge quantities of clean hydrogen and ammonia for offtakers and customers across APAC and beyond. The AREH is a truly massive project that has global implications for the global energy landscape of the future.Links:InterContinental website: https://intercontinentalenergy.com/AREH website: https://asianrehub.com/AEA article about AREH: https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/articles/green-ammonia-at-oil-and-gas-scale/Short piece on green ammonia: https://www.cleantech.com/green-ammonia-potential-as-an-energy-carrier-and-beyond/

Decarbonizing aviation is a big challenge. It is one of the most carbon intensive business sectors in the modern world and change comes slowly to the aviation industry. Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies offer a pathway to decarbonize regional flights in the not-so-distant future and big names are looking at potential solutions for long-haul flights in the longer term. But even if we build the aircraft that can use hydrogen as a fuel, how do we get the fuel to them in a timely, reliable, and cost-efficient way?Fortunately, some of the brightest people in the room are working on this problem. Paul Eremenko, CEO of Universal Hydrogen, and his team are building a capsule-based hydrogen transport and storage solution for both gaseous and liquid hydrogen that they say can make hydrogen-powered flight possible by 2025. Paul comes on the show to tell the EAH team how aviation is the "killer app for hydrogen" and what he means when he says Universal Hydrogen is building the "Nespresso(™) of aviation fueling." THIS IS AN AWESOME CONVERSATION, PEOPLE! DON'T MISS IT!Links:Universal Hydrogen website: https://www.hydrogen.aero/Bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-23/universal-hydrogen-wants-to-get-fuel-cell-planes-ready-to-fly-by-2024Aviation Today: https://www.aviationtoday.com/2020/09/23/universal-hydrogen-secures-electric-propulsion-supplier-magnix/Plug Power PR re partnership: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/09/23/2097971/0/en/Plug-Power-Partners-with-Universal-Hydrogen-on-Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell-Propulsion-System-for-Regional-Turboprop-Aircraft.html

Anglo American is the world's largest platinum mining company. Their core mining operations produce copper, diamonds and platinum group metals, as well as iron ore, coal, polyhalite, and nickel and manganese. These minerals are essential inputs for a staggering variety of products today, and demand for them is continuing to grow.Anglo American (and the mining industry in general) is therefore confronting the monumental challenge of how to continue to meet increasing demand for metals and minerals while simultaneously reducing carbon emissions. In the case of Anglo American, the company has committed to making its operations carbon neutral by 2040.On this episode of Everything About Hydrogen, Jan Klawitter, Head of International Policy for Anglo American, speaks with Andrew, Chris, and Patrick about Anglo American's strategy for decarbonizing its mining operations and how they plan to use hydrogen and fuel cell technologies as a key part of their approach.Links:Anglo American website: https://www.angloamerican.com/Anglo American sustainability page: https://www.angloamerican.com/sustainability/our-sustainable-mining-planCSIRO "Moving to Hydrogen" article: https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/MRF/Areas/Resourceful-magazine/Issue-21/Moving-to-hydrogenHatch press release re: Green Hydrogen Consortium: https://www.hatch.com/en/About-Us/News-And-Media/2020/03/Industry-comes-together-to-form-Green-Hydrogen-ConsortiumGTM article re decarbonization of mining operations: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/mining-giants-embrace-renewables-but-decarbonization-remains-a-steep-climbEvents:inspiratia will be hosting the "Hydrogen Decade" virtual event on Feb 17, 2021. EAH hosts will be in attendance and we will be recording a segment for the podcast during the event. For updates and more information about the Hydrogen Decade virtual event, visit:https://www.inspiratia.com/welcome/eventsTickets are free for inspiratia subscribers, but non-subscriber tickets are also available. If you or your company are interested in attending the Hydrogen Decade virtual event, or if you are interested in potential speaking and/or sponsorship opportunities, drop the inspiratia team an email at conferences@inspiratia.com

This is the last episode of the EAH podcast for 2020. It's been quite an interesting past 12 months and the EAH team has decided to close out this roller coaster year by heading "down under" to discuss the surge in investment in low- and zero-carbon hydrogen going on in Australia. Australia's hydrogen strategy is amongst the most ambitious of the national plans to develop a regional hydrogen economy in the coming decades.On today's show, the EAH team will be joined by Brendan Norman to talk about deployment of sustainable FCEV technologies across many different segments of the transport sector and utility vehicles. Brendan is the CEO of H2X, a new vehicle manufacturing company based in Sydney with a manufacturing facility in Port Kembla, will deliver its first hydrogen FCEVs to market beginning in 2022 before expanding its vehicle offerings in subsequent years. Brendan joined the EAH team via SquadCast from Kuala Lumpur to talk fuel cells with us and you don't want to miss the excellent discussion that we had on this week's episode.Links:H2X website: https://www.h2x.earth/InsideEVs article about H2X (June 6, 2020): https://insideevs.com/news/428416/h2x-australia-car-producing-fcevs/H2X will face competition in Australia in the FCEV markets from the likes of Hyundai & Toyota: https://thedriven.io/2020/06/18/hyundai-australia-lands-first-20-hydrogen-powered-nexo-suvs-for-act-fleet/Australia's National Hydrogen Strategy overview: https://www.industry.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/australias-national-hydrogen-strategy.pdf

2020 has been a year for the history books! Some good, most of it not so good; but 2020 has been a boom year for the future of hydrogen technologies. Patrick, Chris, and Andrew do their level best on this episode to talk about all the stories and the highlights of 2020 in under 50 minutes. Have a listen and let us know if we missed anything in our penultimate episode of 2020!

We spend a lot of time on the show talking about the interesting use cases and potential applications of hydrogen technologies as a means to decarbonize high-emissions sectors, and that is the point! However, moving hydrogen around the world (e.g., to remote areas without the capacity to produce it locally) presents a number of complexities and challenges that are unique to hydrogen itself, or for which there are no traditionally established technologies to do so. On this episode, the EAH team has a fascinating chat with Dr. Daniel Teichmann, CEO and founder of Hydrogenious, to learn more about liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) and how they can help companies overcome some of the major hurdles that moving hydrogen around the globe presents.Links:Hydrogenious website: https://www.hydrogenious.net/index.php/en/hydrogen-2-2/IJHE article on LOHCs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360319919303581

We talk a lot on the EAH podcast series about where hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) fit into the overall zero emission vehicle (ZEV) ecosystem. From personal passenger vehicles and the family car to commercial trucking and public transportation fleets and everything in between. Different vehicles and different use cases call for different capabilities, and that is what makes the future of decarbonized transportation co interesting. Rob Del Core is one of the individuals working to deploy the best zero emission drive system solutions for large scale transportation systems, and he has been working with hydrogen fuel cell solutions for more than two decades. Now AVP for Advanced Technology Strategy at Ricardo plc, he joins the EAH team on this episode to discuss why hydrogen fuel cells are the best solution for decarbonizing most commercial and public fleets as well as his firsthand experience deploying HFC buses on the streets of London.Links:Ricardo plc website: https://ricardo.com/TfL FC bus program case study from Ballard Power Systems: https://www.ballard.com/docs/default-source/motive-modules-documents/transport-for-london-case-study-website.pdf?sfvrsn=9f51c280_2California Governor's ZEV executive order announcement from Sept. 23, 2020: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/23/governor-newsom-announces-california-will-phase-out-gasoline-powered-cars-drastically-reduce-demand-for-fossil-fuel-in-californias-fight-against-climate-change/ Text of actual EO available here: https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/9.23.20-EO-N-79-20-Climate.pdfForbes article about NextEra Energy: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2020/10/03/how-nextera-overtook-exxonmobil-as-the-largest-us-energy-company/#790fcdfa7349

On this week's episode, the EAH team catches up with Mark Selby, Chief Technology Officer at Ceres Power, to dive into the world of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and solid oxide electrolyzer (SOE) technologies. Ceres Power specializes in the design of SOFCs for applications in a diverse range of energy intensive sectors. Mark takes the time in this episode to walk the team through the details, advantages, and challenges of deploying SOFCs and low-carbon hydrogen solutions more broadly and discusses how consumer and customer awareness of these technologies varies widely across international markets. We cover a lot of ground this week, so be sure not to miss out on our conversation with Mark!Links:Ceres website: https://www.ceres.tech/US DoE article on SOFC tech: https://www.energy.gov/fe/why-sofc-technologyCeres SteelCell video: https://youtu.be/9INwSdMOsNA