Hydrogen

The UK's Reaction Engines has announced the details of a joint venture to create its compact, lightweight ammonia reactor intended to decarbonize difficult sectors like shipping and off-grid energy generation – and surprisingly, also aviation.

Green City Ferries is wasting no time exploring hydrogen-powered marine transport possibilities, placing an order for what's billed as the world's first high-speed, emission-free catamaran with an integrated battery and hydrogen fuel cell system.

Ineos is gearing up for a hydrogen revolution, and its work will include testing a fuel cell Grenadier 4x4 alongside an electric version. It hopes to offer the driving range necessary for an old-school 4x4 while cutting emissions down to water vapor.

The US Department of Energy has committed US$20 million to an Arizona-based project that will use nuclear energy to create green hydrogen, testing its capability as a liquid backup battery and as a secondary product for nuclear power installations.

A milestone in decarbonization today as Sweden's SSAB made the world's very first "fossil-free" steel delivery, created with green hydrogen instead of coal and coke, to a customer, Volvo, where it will be used in electric trucks.

Blue hydrogen isn't a step forward for the climate, says a new report out of Cornell and Stanford Universities. Indeed, it's worse than simply burning gas or coal in many applications – so it's not an acceptable transition phase in the race to zero.

Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus wants Tesla to bring the Cybertruck down to the Baja 1000 to race against a new hydrogen-powered, zero-emissions desert racer. SCG says it's also considering building a "plug and play" hydrogen conversion kit for pickups.

The world produces more than 1.8 billion tons of steel a year, releasing nearly twice that weight in carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It's a huge decarbonization challenge, but steel giant ArcelorMittal is starting on a new green plant in Spain.

Western Australia could soon be home to the world's biggest green hydrogen project. The Western Green Energy Hub wants to deploy 50 GW of solar and wind generation to produce up to 3.5 million tons of green hydrogen or 20 million tons of ammonia a year.

Well-respected Austrian solar energy company Fronius has broken ground on its first customer green hydrogen hub, giving us a good look at what it'll take to run a fleet of vehicles on green hydrogen produced entirely on-site using solar panels.

Germany's Svevind has announced plans for a colossal green hydrogen project that will place some 45 gigawatts of wind and solar energy generation on the vast steppes of Kazakhstan to produce around three million tonnes of green hydrogen annually.

Through trials and teasers from big names like Hyundai and Toyota, we are seeing how hydrogen could play a big role in sustainable trucking, and French outfit Gaussin has introduced a versatile skateboard platform it plans on riding into that future.