RE: Green Hydrogen17 Dec 2021 12:01
Thanks Scutzy, thats an interesting article and one I needed to read as doubt about Hydrogen technologies abound.
Im topping up sub £10 today.
Here is the cut and paste text from Edinburgh Wordwide Technologies (which I may look at buying also!)
The trust also has a longstanding holding in Ceres Power, whose solid oxide fuel cell technology Brodie considers to be both efficient and flexible. Ceres has also established useful technology-sharing partnerships with global industrial and transportation giants such as Bosch, Doosan and Weichai.
“Ceres has found a way to run solid oxide fuel cells at a substantially lower temperature of some 550C (1,022F) as opposed to the more usual 800C (1,472F). Because they can operate at lower temperatures, they can use lower-cost materials, such as steel and ceramics, which simplifies the manufacturing process and offers scalability potential to both fuel cells and electrolysers based on this technology,” Brodie notes.
In addition, Ceres’ technology is among the most efficient ways to generate power from any fuel, whether low or zero carbon, and its method of depositing the functional aspects of the cells through ceramic ‘ink’ in its SteelCell stacks is near-impossible to reverse-engineer after manufacture. “Trying to do so would be like trying to extract flour from a loaf of bread, so Ceres has a robust intellectual property advantage,” Brodie adds.
Even if the outlines of the hydrogen economy are still unclear, Brodie expects it to be shaped by companies such as Ceres that focus on valuable knowledge-sharing partnerships and alliances, as well as by new investment and business models.
“We’re at the start of an energy transition that will last for the next 20 to 30 years,” Brodie says. “Once established, the hydrogen economy will be here to stay.” Even if there’s uncertainty about how and when the transition to hydrogen power will happen, there’s already good reason to believe that Jules Verne got it right.