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Hydrogen march
Engineers are working on new methods with which to produce hydrogen economically and environmentally friendly.
Who's going to René Müller on the premises of Linde AG, gets a feel for how the balance of power could shift in the future. The first view is of a giant oven, large as an office building, entwined by innumerable tubes and valves. "Our steam reformer," says Müller. "The plant makes 35,000 cubic meters of hydrogen - an hour." The disadvantage: The raw material for the system is natural gas, which is a fossil fuel. Then the manager reveals three nondescript container next to the colossus. "Our pilot plant creates only about 50 cubic meters of hydrogen. But this hydrogen is green." For feedstock is vegetable glycerin, which falls in the production of biodiesel. The new technique, developed by Linde in Leuna, could one day provide hundreds of thousands of fuel cell vehicles with environmentally-friendly fuel.
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