Seawater to Hydrogen Tech Makes a New, Blue H2 Tapping the oceans deep for a world of thirsty fuel cells.
Using renewable electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen is considered by experts the cleanest route to producing hydrogen fuel. But we live in a world where clean water is a precious commodity to which a third of the world lacks easy access. Researchers in China have now made a device that can directly split seawater to make hydrogen fuel.
The device, reported in the journal Nature, could offer a sustainable, practical route to making hydrogen, its developers say. “
Zongping Shao, a chemical engineering professor at Nanjing Tech University in China, said:
Our strategy realizes efficient, size-flexible and scalable direct seawater electrolysis in a way similar to freshwater splitting without a notable increase in operation…