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Starting a new industry

As a business prospect, producing hydrogen via sustainable means remains in its infancy. However, analysts appear increasingly certain that we are seeing the dawn of a vital new industry. In Europe, some countries (such as Germany and Portugal) have already adopted national strategies for the production and use of the fuel. And in July, the European Union also published a comprehensive hydrogen strategy as a central part of a climate-neutral Europe.

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Ilias Tsagas

03 Aug 2020

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Frans Timmermans, executive vice-president of the European Commission in charge of the European Green Deal, and Kadri Simson, the European commissioner for energy | Image: European Union 2020/EC Audiovisual Service/Claudio Centonze

Greener methods of producing hydrogen are relatively novel, but of course it is not a new fuel. It can be the product of coal or gas gasification, or steam methane reformation, which usually uses natural gas as the feedstock. Hydrogen is also derived from the breaking of methane into hydrogen and carbon using pyrolysis, and …

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