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As part of the Green-QUEST project, University of Cape Town (UCT) students Carla Mathyse and Candace Eslick are investigating ways to harness green hydrogen to provide cleaner cooking fuel for low-income homes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

According to the Energy Transitions Commission, primary steel projects with almost zero emissions are within reach in both Europe and North America. By 2030, the organisation says, the sector may be on a path that is compliant with the Paris Agreement.

Over the next three decades, from 2025 to 2050, investments in green hydrogen could total between 6 and 12 billion USD globally.

According to a recent North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) research, the only long-term zero-emissions technology appropriate for long-haul trucks is hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles.

Researchers at SFedU developed novel nanoscale catalysts that can split water in the presence of sunshine to produce “green hydrogen.”

Applications like affordable and effective hydrogen fuel cells could benefit from an enzyme that catalytically transforms the hydrogen found in air into energy.

Researchers have been looking for effective and affordable ways to use aluminum’s strong reactivity to create clean hydrogen fuel for many years.

Germany will need to buy green hydrogen from other nations in the future energy grid. The Research Center Jülich (FZJ) has constructed an African hydrogen atlas and investigated the possibilities of the African republics south of the Sahara.

Alparslan Bayraktar, the Turkish Deputy Energy Minister, recently attended the ninth Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, where he announced Turkey’s detailed plan to reduce its CO2 emissions by 2053.

The country is set to become the first in Europe to extract natural hydrogen, an element that accumulates in the depths of the Earth, which could position Spain as a major European supplier of sustainable hydrogen.