Coal from Victoria‘s Latrobe Valley in Australia, is going to be turned into “clean hydrogen” by Japan using carbon capture and storage technology. This is the start of the “commercial demonstration phase” of the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain(HESC) project which last year delivered a world-first cargo of liquefied hydrogen to Japan on a purpose-built ship. The project will be funded  by the Japanese government’s Green Innovation Fund through one of its partners, Japan Suiso Energy, that will own and operate a liquefaction and shipping facility at the Port of Hastings.  The chief executive of Japan Suiso Energy, Eiichy Harada, said : After a decade … Continue reading Japan to Produce “Clean Hydrogen” from Dirty Coal in Australia’s Latrobe Valley