Daesan H2GT Power Plant
Hydrogen is thought by some to be the great energy savior, able to fill an important gap in liquid fuels that batteries and electricity cannot. Hydrogen, a very flammable and ignitable substance (and the most common molecule in the universe), burns clean when it burns, producing only water as a byproduct. A major area of focus for those pushing hydrogen energy is using it to generate electricity. Wouldn't it be great, they say, if we could swap out hydrogen for nasty old methane? The problem has been nobody has figured out how to mix more than perhaps 40% hydrogen with 60% methane in a standard gas-burning turbine. A company with operations in the U.S. and South Korea has just announced it has successfully performed a test of burning 60% hydrogen in a standard (refitted) gas turbine. That's a really important breakthrough.
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