Today 10/8- Celebrate National Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Day with the Department of Energy

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Celebrate National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day with the Department of Energy

What do hydrogen's atomic weight and October 8 have in common? The answer is in the numbers: 1.008 is the atomic weight of hydrogen, which can be shortened to 10/08 as a calendar date.

That's why October 8 is designated as National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day—an annual opportunity to celebrate hydrogen and its role in the transition to a cleaner and more equitable energy future.

Clean hydrogen—which is produced with zero or near-zero emissions from renewables, nuclear energy, or natural gas with carbon sequestration—has tremendous potential in this energy future. It can function as an energy-storage medium and as fuel for many transportation applications that are difficult to decarbonize and where battery electric approaches may be impractical. Clean hydrogen can also help to decarbonize high-emissions industrial processes that currently use fossil fuels directly or hydrogen produced from natural gas without carbon sequestration.

Today, hydrogen is used for producing fertilizer, refining petroleum, steelmaking, and processing foods—it's even used in the makeup industry. In the United States, we produce approximately 10 million metric tons of hydrogen annually for use in such processes, but most of that hydrogen comes from natural gas, resulting in substantial CO2 emissions. Using clean hydrogen instead can dramatically reduce environmental impacts while helping to grow clean-hydrogen production capacity and expand the necessary infrastructure, which will reduce costs across the value chain and enable additional applications...more
https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/articles/celebrate-national-hydrogen-and-fuel-cell-day-department-energy

8th Annual National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day Saturday October 8, 2022

National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day was created to help raise awareness of a clean energy technology that is here now. October 8th (10.08) was chosen in reference to the atomic weight of hydrogen (1.008)

The Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA), its members, industry organizations, and state and federal governments are commemorating National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day with a variety of activities and events across the country. https://www.fchea.org/h2-day-2022

Happy National Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Day!