WALKERTON, ON—The future has arrived in clean energy. Hydrogen technology promises to be a new energy source and an integral part of the climate change solution, said Mathew Fairlie a spokesperson for the Hydrogen Business Council.
“Climate change is at the heart of our initiative. We see the potential of hydrogen enabled energy to be an integral part of a climate change solution if it is supported by a robust infrastructure,” he told members of Bruce County’s planning and development committee on October 18.
Fairlie describes the Hydrogen Business Council as a community of like-minded companies trying to develop the hydrogen economy in Ontario.
He said Bruce Power, with its abundance of electricity, is an excellent source for the conversion of clean electrical energy into hydrogen energy.
“There’s extra energy inside the Bruce Power fence,” Fairlie “Bruce County has the largest clean energy source in the world ... we have a significant clean energy source that we could use.”
The process of making hydrogen energy relies on the use of a rather simple procedure called electrolysis involving the decomposition of water into hydrogen and oxygen due to the passage of a current of electricity.
The creation of hydrogen as a fuel would result in the production of a number of clean products including fuel for cars and in the trucking industry, home heating as well as feedstocks. The feedstock is a raw material supplied to a machine in a processing plant. Fairlie referred to the recent U.N. report at the world economic forum in Davos Switzerland which calls for drastic changes in the reduction of greenhouse gases and identifies how hydrogen energy could lead to large-scale de-carbonization of the industry providing energy services currently not delivered by electricity.
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