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Negative-emissions hydrogen energy

The race against time to mitigate climate change has increasingly focused on the development and deployment of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. New research shows that negative-emissions hydrogen production is potentially a cost-effective alternative.

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Fig. 1: NETs and global CO2 emission trajectories.

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Yan, J. Negative-emissions hydrogen energy. Nature Clim Change 8, 560–561 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0215-9

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