The World's Cheapest Green Hydrogen

NewHydrogen is developing - a breakthrough technology that uses water and heat instead of electricity to produce the world’s cheapest green hydrogen

Hydrogen is the cleanest and most abundant element in the universe, and we can’t live without it. Hydrogen is the key ingredient in making fertilizers needed to grow food for the world. It is also used for transportation, refining oil and making steel, glass, pharmaceuticals and more. Unfortunately, most of the hydrogen today is made from non-renewable dirty resources such as natural gas, coal and oil.

Currently, the most common method of making green hydrogen is to split water into oxygen and hydrogen with an electrolyzer using green electricity produced from solar or wind. However, green electricity is and always will be very expensive. It currently accounts for 73% of the cost of green hydrogen.

In most power plants, heat is generated first to run a steam turbine to produce electricity. Therefore, by using heat directly we can skip the expensive process of making electricity, and fundamentally lower the cost of green hydrogen. Inexpensive heat can be obtained from concentrated solar, geothermal, nuclear reactors and industrial waste heat. Working with a team of world-class chemical and materials engineers at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), we are developing a novel low-cost thermochemical process to split water using heat, instead of electricity.

Our mission is to help produce unlimited quantities of the world’s cheapest green hydrogen, and usher in the green hydrogen economy that Goldman Sachs estimated to be worth $12 trillion in the near future.

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