Green Hydrogen – the fuel of the future!

by Vera Gamini Samarasinghe

What is Green Hydrogen and how come the energy world is presently all talking about it? Green hydrogen is simply plain hydrogen H2 made through the electrolysis of water using clean electricity from a patented method harnessing the breaking waves or surf of the sea giving very large quantities of electricity at an economical price (WIPO PCT Patent FO3B 13/18 Application no.39440/95).

This method of developing electricity gives enormous amounts of electricity at a very reasonable cost and is thus the way forward in the field of renewable energy in the future, far exceeding both wind based and solar powered electricity. Since breaking waves occur both day and night and since the method of storage of the collected energy is compressed air, no battery type storage or pump storage is required plus it is mainly a shore based machine (for those interested in the technology please read patent details from the accessed site on the internet).

This patented form of electricity generation is shared by two companies in the world, one American and the other Chinese. These two companies WILL in the near future and up to the year 2060 DOMINATE the world market in the production of clean energy giving thousands of terrawatts of electricity and thousands of tons of green hydrogen to power existing coal and LNG power plants the world over.

Green compressed hydrogen can be transported much like LNG, burnt as LNG and since burning hydrogen gives only heat energy and water and no carbon residues it is the cleanest and purest fuel. Why the companies are turning to electrolysis and producing green hydrogen in the main is that no coal or LNG fired power stations need be dismantled as the hydrogen can replace the coal or LNG to fire the steam boilers.

In the next 20 years as huge quantities of electricity and hydrogen can be produced by this method a completely carbon free world can be a reality. Even Sri Lanka which has planned to produce 70% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030 will, I believe, very easily meet its target as it has already started the ball rolling. China too could reach its goal of a carbon free society by the year 2060 by eliminating its coal and LNG plants by that year.

Hydrogen turns into a liquid when it is cooled to a temperature below minus 253 degrees Celcius and 1.013 bar. Liquid hydrogen has a density of 71kg/M3. At this pressure five kg of hydrogen can be stored in a 75 liter tank. Already in the world shipyards there are many tankers being built to carry the liquid hydrogen in the near future. These two companies will be the companies bringing about the greatest and historic changes to the world’s electricity and energy supply.

Here below I give some statistics of the coal fired power stations of the world and the amount of electricity developed by these stations.

Electricity by coal powered stations year 2020:

China 4631 Twh

India 947 Twh

USA 774 Twh

Japan 274 Twh

South Korea 192 Twh

Number of coal fired power stations in the three largest electricity producing countries:

China 1084 power stations

India 281 power stations

USA 252 power stations

Be prepared for a clean world by 2060!