'A Resurgence of Hydrogen-Based Activity'

February 21, 2018

Adam Weber, leader of the Energy Conversion Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was quoted in a Vox story about efforts at commercial-scale hydrogen production.Screenshot of Vox story

There's currently “a resurgence of hydrogen-based activity around the world,” Weber says in the Feb. 16 story, "This company may have solved one of the hardest problems in clean energy."  

Weber refers to the pursuit of cost-effective hydrogen technologies, which he works on at Berkeley Lab. Such technologies could open up the market for hydrogen, or "the Swiss Army knife for energy," as the story calls it. Hydrogen can power fuel cells, for example, or it might be extracted from surplus power on the grid and then used to create other liquid fuels, for example. “Hydrogen is probably the simplest thing you can make when electricity prices are depressed,” Weber says.