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Jannik Haas, Senior Lecturer of Sustainable Systems, University of Canterbury

Green hydrogen could decarbonise entire industries in NZ – but there’s a long way to go

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Hydrogen has been called the “Swiss army knife” of decarbonisation because it can do many things. But not all of them make sense.

Today, the world uses about 100 megatonnes of hydrogen per year (MT/y), but this is produced almost entirely from fossil fuels. To use hydrogen for decarbonisation, we must shift to emissions-free forms.

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