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Hydrogen could help China’s heavy industry to get greener

Providing the clean fuel to manufacturing plants would be a cost-effective way to tackle the country’s climate goals.
Abandoned apartment buildings stand in front of a cooling tower.

A factory cooling tower in the steelmaking city of Tonghua, China. Clean hydrogen fuel could eventually supply almost 30% of the energy needs of Chinese steel mills. Credit: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg/Getty

China is the world’s largest producer of cement, steel and other building materials, whose manufacture emits huge amounts of carbon dioxide. But an analysis now suggests that powering heavy industries with hydrogen could be a cost-effective way to reduce China’s carbon emissions — and its contribution to climate change1.

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Nature 610, 234 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03084-x

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  1. Yang, X., Nielsen, C. P., Song, S. & McElroy, M. B. Nature Energy https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01114-6 (2022).

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