This week’s hydrogen announcement! Israeli start-up H2Pro has developed a potentially game-changing technology for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen that can reach 95% efficiency and costs significantly less than a conventional electrolyser.
They say this will allow them to make hydrogen for the magic US$1/kg by the second half of this decade. ($1/kg is far cheaper than the current BNEF projections, which don’t predict such a low price until 2050.)
The H2Pro approach separates the electrolysis into two steps and removes the need for the membrane, which is the most expensive and delicate part of an electrolyser. Their devices “are therefore much simpler and cheaper to make, and by producing hydrogen and oxygen in two consecutive steps, it is also much safer.”
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