The race for clean, sustainable energy is heating up, and green hydrogen is poised to take center stage. This versatile fuel has the potential to replace fossil fuels in everything from transportation to heavy industry.
There’s just one catch — producing green hydrogen in the massive quantities we need has seemed impossible due to its reliance on a super-rare metal: iridium.
But a breakthrough from the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan could be about to change everything.
Their new technique reduces the amount of iridium needed in green hydrogen production by a whopping 95% – a game-changer for scaling up this transformative technology.
Green hydrogen
Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, can be extracted from water through electrolysis, a process that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. When used as fuel, hydrogen emits only water vapor, making it a zero-emissions energy…
