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Southern California Gas Co. announced Tuesday that it would provide $ 200,000 to a project to develop a zero-emission solution for small commercial ocean-going vessels by modifying a commercial boat with a hydrogen fuel cell instead of an internal combustion engine. Fuel cell technology developed by Zero Emission Industries, formerly Golden Gate Zero Emission Marine, has the potential to "significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution from thousands of small commercial boats across California, including patrol, fishing, fire, rescue, ferry and taxi "Leisure and other ships", depending on the utility company. "SoCalGas is committed to helping California meet its climate goals and we are exploring how we can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in each sector," said Neil Navin, vice president of clean energy innovation for SoCalGas. "We recently announced our commitment to net zero greenhouse gas emissions from our ope

Green hydrogen is seen as a beacon of hope for the energy and mobility transition, but it is not yet suitable for the masses. There are mutliple reasons for this. Hydrogen is currently mainly produced centrally from fossil raw materials. It then has to be compressed or liquefied in an expensive and energy-intensive process in order to be delivered to petrol stations, for example. There, an expensive infrastructure with high investment costs is required to store large amounts of hydrogen. For a nationwide hydrogen supply, decentralized production will therefore be indispensable in the future, ideally climate-neutral from locally available renewable energy sources. In 2020, researchers at the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) led by process engineer Viktor Hacker and the Graz start-up Rouge H2 Engineering presented a sustainable process for decentralized hydrogen production, the so-called "chemical looping hydrogen method". The research results, which have re