{"id":212810,"date":"2025-04-29T22:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/japanese-scientists-approach-can-enable-cheap-hydrogen-fuel-production"},"modified":"2025-04-29T22:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:03:57","slug":"japanese-scientists-approach-can-enable-cheap-hydrogen-fuel-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/japanese-scientists-approach-can-enable-cheap-hydrogen-fuel-production","title":{"rendered":"Japanese scientists\u2019 approach can enable cheap hydrogen fuel production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-scientists-approach-can-enable-cheap-hydrogen-fuel-production.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have demonstrated that a surface reconstruction strategy can enable affordable hydrogen fuel production. The hydrogen fuel is created using The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). However, scaling this process from a lab experiment to large-scale commercial production has been challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists in Japan have showcased that a surface reconstruction pathway can produce durable, non-noble metal-based cathodes that speed up the HER reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers highlighted that they can maintain their performance for more than 300 hours and are calculated to cost very close to the US Department of Energy\u2019s 2026 H2 production target ($2.00 per kgH2-1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have demonstrated that a surface reconstruction strategy can enable affordable hydrogen fuel production. The hydrogen fuel is created using The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). However, scaling this process from a lab experiment to large-scale commercial production has been challenging. Now, scientists in Japan have showcased that a surface reconstruction pathway can produce durable, non-noble [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212810","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}