Nova Scotia researchers helping to fill in pieces of green-hydrogen puzzle

In a laboratory tucked away on the fourth floor of the chemistry building at Dalhousie University, associate professor Mita Dasog points to an illuminated tube containing a brown liquid, which researchers hope will help shift society off fossil fuels.The tube represents one part of the lab’s work on producing green hydrogen through artificial photosynthesis. “We’re essentially trying to mimic what plants do,” Dasog says. It’s part of a range of research the lab is undertaking that also includes investigating ways to bring costs down, as well as working with “alternative technologies.” Both the provincial and federal governments have set ambitious targets for green hydrogen production. The federal government plans to start shipments of green hydrogen to Germany by 2025. Nova Scotia aims to begin granting leases in 2030 for offshore wind that would support green hydrogen…

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