Climate Change and Renewable Energy News and Discussion
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This is basically a modular reactor design. Each module has 250 MWt heating power. The two modules produce heated steam which is then fed to a common gas turbine to generate 210 MWe electricity. There are plans to use six modules with one common gas turbine of 650 MWe. If this is like other HTR designs I read before the reactor core, unlike other nuclear reactors, produces high temperature steam which is appropriate for certain industrial processes like hydrogen splitting from water with high temperature electrolysis method.
The Europeans are already freaking out about China destroying their green hydrogen industry even though transporting electrolysers will be really costly and not worth it based on this article.
Imo, that new sea water splitting procedure is the real game changer. China is just putting so much resources in this sector also. I do get the sense that the European companies don't want to scare their government at home into putting tariffs. But here is the most important part. China's market is already ahead and it will just push further ahead if Europe and America continues to be stuck in the mud.
China is looking to export its green hydrogen technology imo. However, that probably won't be Europe. There is vast amount of market in places like Middle East that have depended on hydrocarbon and have tremendous amount solar energy potential that could benefit from green hydrogen. There are plenty of places China can sell its systems to. European sanctions will not stop China from dominating the rest of the world. But it looks to me that green hydrogen is still quite under developed. China produces 33 million ton a year, but only plan to do 100 to 200k ton a year by green energy. That's very small portion.
Imo, that new sea water splitting procedure is the real game changer. China is just putting so much resources in this sector also. I do get the sense that the European companies don't want to scare their government at home into putting tariffs. But here is the most important part. China's market is already ahead and it will just push further ahead if Europe and America continues to be stuck in the mud.
China is looking to export its green hydrogen technology imo. However, that probably won't be Europe. There is vast amount of market in places like Middle East that have depended on hydrocarbon and have tremendous amount solar energy potential that could benefit from green hydrogen. There are plenty of places China can sell its systems to. European sanctions will not stop China from dominating the rest of the world. But it looks to me that green hydrogen is still quite under developed. China produces 33 million ton a year, but only plan to do 100 to 200k ton a year by green energy. That's very small portion.