Green hydrogen can help save the world, and the MENA region is primed to make it happen

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NEOM Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC) is building the world’s largest green hydrogen plant in Oxagon, NEOM

Green hydrogen can help save the world, and the MENA region is primed to make it happen

Green hydrogen will help drive economic diversification, creating opportunities to develop and grow talent from KSA and beyond, while applying industry-leading technology to kickstart a worldwide hydrogen economy

David R. Edmondson | Arabian Business | 18 Jul 2023

Carbon emissions have been rising unchecked for the last 80 years, and according to the Environmental Protection Agency, they have increased 90 percent since 1970.

At the same time, we are adding approximately 80 million people to the planet every year. That’s roughly the combined population of the GCC countries.

These two facts should alarm you because they present the most significant challenge humanity has ever faced. How can we reduce carbon emissions within a short timeframe to meet essential Net Zero targets while providing enough energy to support a rapidly increasing global population?

...The region already possesses significant advantages for enabling world-scale green hydrogen production, with proven project development capabilities, available land and abundant access to wind and solar resources. Through national strategies, regulations, as well as a commitment to invest in wind and solar PV plants, electrolysers, pipelines, storage systems with complimentary education and training programmes, the wider region is very well positioned to scale up green hydrogen production and assume global leadership in this market...more
https://www.arabianbusiness.com/opinion/green-hydrogen-can-help-save-the-world-and-the-mena-region-is-primed-to-make-it-happen

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Adnoc begins construction of Middle East’s first high-speed hydrogen refuelling station

Abu Dhabi-based energy company has entered into a partnership with Toyota and Al-Futtaim Motors

John Benny | Jul 18, 2023

The station, which is being built in Masdar City by the state-owned energy company, will create clean hydrogen from water, using an electrolyser powered by clean grid electricity, Adnoc said on Tuesday.

Adnoc has also entered into a partnership with Japanese car maker Toyota and Al-Futtaim Motors to test the refuelling station using a fleet of clean hydrogen-powered vehicles.

“The need to reduce carbon emissions to address climate change is clear and urgent,” said Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and Cop28 President-designate.

“Adnoc is placing sustainability and decarbonisation at the heart of its strategy and, while we decarbonise our operations today, we are making robust investments to be a supplier of choice for the clean energies of tomorrow,” said Dr Al Jaber, also Adnoc managing director and group chief executive...more
https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/energy/2023/07/18/adnoc-begins-construction-of-middle-easts-first-high-speed-hydrogen-refuelling-station/


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An Economy Powered by Hydrogen: How the Middle East Is Leading the Chase in Game-Changing Clean Energy Technologies?

Menafn.com | 7/17/2023

Middle Eastern nations have abundant reserves of oil and gas. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries possess approximately 25% of the world's oil reserves and around 18% of the global natural gas reserves.

However, leaders across the region are aware that oil and gas will not be the main economic drivers forever, and many are now attempting to diversify their economies and expand their non-oil sectors.

Green hydrogen production is one of the areas the region is starting to heavily invest in. The process uses renewable energy to produce the element through electrolysis where water molecules are split into hydrogen and oxygen, capturing, and storing the hydrogen for use as fuel.

Hydrogen, the lightest and most abundant element in the universe, can be used for a wide range of applications, including power generation, energy storage, and transportation (particularly heavy transportation such as shipping and trucking). It can also be used to make sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and most crucially, it offers a way to decarbonise “hard-to-abate” industries such as steel, aluminium, and cement, where using renewable energy alone is not possible, as well as other high-carbon industries such as fertiliser...more
https://menafn.com/1106612211/An-Economy-Powered-by-Hydrogen-How-the-Middle-East-Is-Leading-the-Chase-in-Game-Changing-Clean-Energy-Technologies

7-18-2023: MENA embraces the Hydrogen Energy Revolution

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1. The only problem is that "green hydrogen" doesn't exist on any scale...

...worth discussing. It's bait and switch. All of the hydrogen salespeople and sales bots here are selling fossil fuels, because that's how hydrogen is made at a vast and unsustainable cost in exergy destruction.

[Think. Again.]

2. Correct, green hydrogen needs to be increased tremendously...

As you mentioned, we must stop making hydrogen from fossil fuels and dramatically increase Green Hydrogen which is made from ANY non-CO2 electric source and is being developed and implemented using solar, wind, hydro and nuclear plants on an increasingly large scale.

This is past being worth discussing.

This is being done.