{"id":136987,"date":"2022-03-17T11:22:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/australian-researchers-claim-giant-leap-in-technology-to-produce-affordable-renewable-hydrogen"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:22:31","slug":"australian-researchers-claim-giant-leap-in-technology-to-produce-affordable-renewable-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/australian-researchers-claim-giant-leap-in-technology-to-produce-affordable-renewable-hydrogen","title":{"rendered":"Australian researchers claim \u2018giant leap\u2019 in technology to produce affordable renewable hydrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australian-researchers-claim-giant-leap-in-technology-to-produce-affordable-renewable-hydrogen2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The achievement, published in the peer-reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-022-28953-x\">Nature Communication journal today<\/a>, could see the Morrison government\u2019s so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.industry.gov.au\/policies-and-initiatives\/growing-australias-hydrogen-industry#:~:text=National%20Hydrogen%20Strategy.-, Prioritising%20hydrogen%20to%20reduce%20emissions, the%20government%27s%20Technology%20Investment%20Roadmap.\">hydrogen stretch goal<\/a> of $2 a kilogram to make the fuel competitive reached as soon as 2025, the Hysata chief executive, Paul Barrett, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve gone from 75% [efficiency] to 95% \u2013 it\u2019s really a giant leap for the electrolysis industry,\u201d Barrett said.<\/p>\n<p>Renewable energy from sources such as wind and solar is making big inroads into the power sector, supplying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/jan\/28\/higher-cost-of-fossil-fuels-drives-wholesale-power-prices-up-despite-falling-market-share\">more than a third of eastern Australia\u2019s electricity<\/a> in the final three months of 2021. However, decarbonising industry and some transport, such as trucking, is likely to be tougher unless fuels such as hydrogen become much cheaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The achievement, published in the peer-reviewed Nature Communication journal today, could see the Morrison government\u2019s so-called hydrogen stretch goal of $2 a kilogram to make the fuel competitive reached as soon as 2025, the Hysata chief executive, Paul Barrett, said. \u201cWe\u2019ve gone from 75% [efficiency] to 95% \u2013 it\u2019s really a giant leap for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1490,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-government","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136987","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}