Critical Raw Materials for the Hydrogen Industry

If you analyze the “old world” from a chemical elements perspective you will discover that it was mainly made of very common elements such as Iron, Aluminum, Carbon, etc.

The “new world” dominated by renewable energy needs many other elements, too, for solar cells, glass fiber for wind turbines, magnets for electric motors, batteries and special catalysts for all kinds of chemical reactions. These elements are called Gallium, Yttrium, Neodymium, Iridium, Ytterbium or Dysprosium, and most of us only know them if we really paid attention in the chemistry class.

If you are about to develop such a product and your supply chain is not stable in terms of quantity and price – forget it. You can give up today. The risk is too high that you are going to fail.

The good news is that just yesterday, a very good review article on “Critical and strategic raw materials for electrolysers, fuel cells, metal hydrides and hydrogen separation technologies” was published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

I highly recommend to read it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S036031992401783X

The even better news is that you don’t have to read it if you don’t have time.

On June 5, we’ll host a Panel Discussion on “How to Improve Electrolyzers” during the #HydrogenOnlineWorkshop. Prof. Dr. Bruno G. Pollet , one of the authors of the paper, is a panelist, and you can ask him anything regarding electrolyzers and critical raw materials.

For those of you who don’t know Bruno:

He is one of the most distinguished scientists in the field of electrochemistry, and he knows everything (ok…almost) about electrolyzers. According to Google Scholar, his h-index is 58, which is a very high value.

To put this into perspective: Albert Einstein had an h-index of 41, so by today’s standards, Bruno is 41.5% more successful as a scientist than Einstein. ;-) ;-) ;-)

You have three options now:

1.????? Procrastinate

2.????? Get the paper, read and understand what it means for you

3.????? Join www.hydrogen-online-workshop.com, attend the panel (there’s a “Add to Calendar” button next to it in the program) and learn from the best

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The second panelist is Professor Pierre Millet from the Université Paris-Saclay . Pierre brings the experience of another 150+ scientific publications and 10,000+ citations to the table – almost all of them in the field of electrochemistry e.g. for electrolyzers.

The third panelist is Art Shirley , Chief Commercial Officer of EVOLOH , a startup based in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley). I had a videoconference with him this week, and he says things like “We only provide stacks, and we will build the largest and most productive factories in the world. Our stacks only use low cost materials, and we will beat any price.” Wow.

I don’t know if this is true, and I don’t know how Evoloh wants to do that in detail.

But what I do know is that you have to join. It’s the best and most efficient way to learn what you need to know about electrolyzers. And the best way to find out what the plans of Evoloh are. Seriously. No travel, no management approval, no nothing. Just skip your Netflix routine and be productive:

www.hydrogen-online-workshop.com

Think about it.

David