{"id":3477,"date":"2023-05-26T11:01:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T09:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2023-05-26T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T09:01:04","slug":"imagine-these-green-hydrogen-plants-next-to-green-steel-mills-to-increase-efficiency-and-kick-start-both-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/26\/imagine-these-green-hydrogen-plants-next-to-green-steel-mills-to-increase-efficiency-and-kick-start-both-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine this: green hydrogen plants next to green steel mills to increase efficiency and jump-start both industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The race to net zero is accelerating. Just last week, United States President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled the Climate Pact<\/span><span>\u00a0to support cooperation. The move sees Australia become a global leader in renewable energy deployment and critical mineral supply.\u00a0<\/span><span>Australia&#039;s rich iron ore deposits and cheap solar energy offer another avenue for us to lead. By placing green hydrogen plants near green steel facilities, we can move the highly polluting steel industry away from fossil fuels.\u00a0<\/span><span>Our new research at<\/span><span>shows that co-locating plants in sun- and iron-rich places like Western Australia&#039;s Pilbara and South Australia&#039;s Eyre Peninsula can help overcome the &quot;first mover problem&quot; for green hydrogen: you can&#039;t have a hydrogen industry without buyers, and it can&#039;t have buyers without hydrogen. <\/span><span>How would that work? Cheap solar energy would be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. This green hydrogen would be piped a short distance to a green steel plant, which uses hydrogen and electricity to make iron from ore, and then to an electric arc furnace to melt the steel. As we grapple with ways to decarbonise the steel sector, which uses 8 % of the world&#039;s energy and produces 7 % of all energy-related carbon emissions, we should urgently seek opportunities like this. As a bonus, cheap solar and wind power could make Australian iron and steel more competitive on a global scale. <em>(The Conversation)\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&quot;by clicking on the title of the article, you will be redirected to the entire article&quot;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race to net zero is accelerating. Just last week, US President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled a climate pact to promote cooperation. The move sees Australia becoming a global leader in the deployment of renewable energy and critical mineral supplies. Australia\u2019s rich iron ore deposits and cheap solar power offer another path we can lead. If [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}