Hydrogen has been getting a fair bit of press recently with Resources Minister Madeleine King flagging the potential for the large-scale storage of hydrogen in salt caverns across Australia.
More companies such as Frontier Energy and Infinite Green Energy are also talking up their green hydrogen plans while others are spruiking “turquoise hydrogen”. This uses a process called methane pyrolysis to produce hydrogen from natural gas while producing carbon as a solid by-product rather than carbon dioxide.
Over in the west, the proposed HyEnergy project which could export some 200,000t of green hydrogen per annum has been found to be feasible.
However, the Western Australian state government’s decision to award a $10m grant to Woodside for the development of a renewable hydrogen production, storage and refuelling station in the…
Got Gas: Just how green is this hydrogen project anyway?
