{"id":134988,"date":"2022-01-31T05:24:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/game-changing-anode-exchange-membrane-promises-cheaper-green-hydrogen"},"modified":"2022-01-31T05:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:24:20","slug":"game-changing-anode-exchange-membrane-promises-cheaper-green-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/game-changing-anode-exchange-membrane-promises-cheaper-green-hydrogen","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGame-changing\u201d anode exchange membrane promises cheaper green hydrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/game-changing-anode-exchange-membrane-promises-cheaper-green-hydrogen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electrolysis is a key component of the cost of green hydrogen, and a Korean team says it\u2019s made a huge breakthrough with an anion exchange membrane that\u2019s not only much cheaper than current proton exchange tech, but offers some 20 percent better performance.<\/p>\n<p>Electrolysis is the process of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, and when powered by renewable energy, it\u2019s shaping up to be a key step in the production of green hydrogen. Green hydrogen is set to play a substantial role in the race to zero emissions, offering a high energy density that makes it an attractive option in several hard-to-decarbonize activities where batteries just don\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, electrolyzers use proton exchange membranes (PEMs), in which an anode and a cathode in an electrolyte material are separated by a membrane designed to allow positively-charged hydrogen ions to pass through as they\u2019re attracted by the cathode. Here they combine with electrons to form hydrogen gas, which is collected, and oxygen is released at the anode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrolysis is a key component of the cost of green hydrogen, and a Korean team says it\u2019s made a huge breakthrough with an anion exchange membrane that\u2019s not only much cheaper than current proton exchange tech, but offers some 20 percent better performance. Electrolysis is the process of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}