Former astronaut Franklin Chang is confident that in 10 years Costa Rica, his country, will be different. He aspires to make it much richer and cleaner, thanks to the green hydrogen he has been researching and developing since 2011.
“We can transform ourselves in five or ten years. A disruptor is needed and green hydrogen can be it. It happened with airplanes, computers, cell phones…. In a few years everything changed,” he said from his company, Ad Astra Rocket, in Liberia, Guanacaste, where he installed a system that already produces green hydrogen but on a reduced scale.
Chang learned about the benefits of green hydrogen on one of his seven trips to space (between 1986 and 2002), as a member of NASA crews. Today he is immersed in the development of this technology, not for space shuttles, but for its industrialization.
According to AFP, one of its main applications would…
Green Hydrogen Technology could change Costa Rica’s Future :
