NewHydrogen CEO Steve Hill Discusses Sustainability with a UC Davis Expert - Seite 2

As for the potential of hydrogen in their plan, referencing his work on lab-scale hydrogen research and reforming, Dr. Kornbluth highlighted Danish demonstration projects involving hydrogen, and explored the concept of using hydrogen as an intermediate storage technology or fuel, referencing projects in Denmark and Sweden. Dr. Kornbluth said, “It is important to figure out where hydrogen fits best, noting its potential in areas with renewable energy that are not immediately used.”

Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Hill discussed the development of hydrogen as a ubiquitous and cost-effective resource. Dr. Kornbluth emphasized the importance of identifying and supporting the development of various technologies that could enhance each other as they mature. Mr. Hill briefly introduced NewHydrogen’s work on developing thermochemical approaches to affordable green hydrogen.

Dr. Kurt Kornbluthreceived a PhD in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from UC Davis and is a Graduate School of Management Business Development fellow. After working for the MIT D-Lab he founded a similar program at UC Davis in 2008. In 2016 Kornbluth received the University of California President’s Office Faculty Climate Champion award for his novel client-focused, project–based courses and Sustainable Campus, Sustainable Cities applied research initiative. In 2017, Dr. Kornbluth received the UC Davis Chancellors Global Engagement Award for his efforts to connect students with real projects abroad. In 2019 he was appointed the Academic Director of the new $24M UC Davis Engineering Student Design Center with the charge of incorporating more active learning curricula for Engineering students. Dr. Kornbluth is listed as a Google Scholar at https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Kurt+K ...

Watch the full discussion on the NewHydrogen Podcast featuring Dr. Kornbluth at
https://staging.newhydrogen.com/videos/ceo-podcast/dr-kurt-kornbluth-u ....

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About NewHydrogen, Inc.

NewHydrogen is developing ThermoLoop – a breakthrough technology that uses water and heat rather than electricity to produce the world’s cheapest green hydrogen. Hydrogen is the cleanest and most abundant element in the universe, and we can’t live without it. Hydrogen is the key ingredient in making fertilizers needed to grow food for the world. It is also used for transportation, refining oil and making steel, glass, pharmaceuticals and more. Nearly all the hydrogen today is made from hydrocarbons like coal, oil, and natural gas, which are dirty and limited resources. Water, on the other hand, is an infinite and renewable worldwide resource. Currently, the most common method of making green hydrogen is to split water into oxygen and hydrogen with an electrolyzer using green electricity produced from solar or wind. However, green electricity is and always will be very expensive. It currently accounts for 73% of the cost of green hydrogen. By using heat directly, we can skip the expensive process of making electricity, and fundamentally lower the cost of green hydrogen. Inexpensive heat can be obtained from concentrated solar, geothermal, nuclear reactors and industrial waste heat for use in our novel low-cost thermochemical water splitting process. Working with a world class research team at UC Santa Barbara, our goal is to help usher in the green hydrogen economy that Goldman Sachs estimated to have a future market value of $12 trillion.