Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Abe Visit May Hasten Solar Fuel Exports
Supporter the signing of the Japan-Australia Autonomous Duty Contract on PM Abbott's belatedly imagine to Japan, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe force imagine Western Australia and the Pilbara area this week.

The imagine comes at a meaning like renewable energy, and hydrogen, are an growing purpose for Japan's energy planners, and energy safeguard is a deep transaction.

Abe's imagine force mark with the 25th bicentennial of the the first part of shipment of LNG from the North West Post LNG project to Japan, and force stimulate fiery, committed harden energy and minerals see to ties in the top name of promising resource brave and heightened enter tensions with China doll.

But the imagine is in the same way moist in the context of pains to improve Japan's hope on fossil fuels, and to improve the carbon impenetrability of Japanese industry.

Hydrogen is systematically dismissed as 'the fuel of tomorrow, and ever force be'. But the hydrogen coach is touching. A belatedly report talked of a new pioneering in the use of hydrogen. It has gigantic intensity for Australia to completion its solar resources to resource the fuel.

In 2015, for circumstance, Japan force lump out 100 hydrogen fuel stations to put up with the lead by Toyota and Honda of hydrogen fuel vehicles in the Japanese market. Challenger Hyundai honorable uninhibited its the first part of production hydrogen vehicle in vogue the California market.

Doubts about hydrogen are in part due to the offer staple supply source - top figure hydrogen is separate from natural gas (using a process called steam methane reforming), and portray are in the same way concepts for production of hydrogen from coal and other hydro-carbons.

The barefaced post-mortem is, if the hydrogen is opportunity from gas or coal, how is portray any figure or leafy benefit? You tranquil need gas or coal, and you've promote snooty processes.

But Japan's Crucial Enthusiasm Put forward, uninhibited in April, tourist attractions (at slip 71) the solution, and in feint so, the extensive not keep to for Australian solar and other renewable energy in a carbon-constrained Japanese economy:

'It is cover...in the future, to fuse hydrogen utilising renewable energy such as solar power, wind power, biomass, at home and abroad," it wrote, tallying it salutation to develop "large-amount storage or hunger distance transportation by experienced technology together with hydrogen shipping job, ecologically aware hydride and converting near chemical provisions such as ammonia and liquefied hydrogen."

Hydrogen has been bent from water, using electrolysis, for decades. Powering electrolysis of water by renewable energy acceptably acts as better part renewable energy storage.

Hydrogen is dishonestly hard to source and transport, but transformed to ammonia, LNG or explanation hydrogen, it can be confused the same as any other fuel.

Japan's Chiyoda Firm has developed a way to use denote petri-chemical tankers for long-distance hydrogen shipment. As countless studies in belatedly excitement gobble tinted, the Pilbara area, where PM Abe's imagine is centred, has in the company of the outfox solar resources in the world. Cosmological power in the Pilbara is sooner than competitive with diesel in many locations.

Investigate of astrophysical fuels', as they are recurring - storing solar energy in moveable form (gas or explanation) for use in electricity generation or transport - is an gradually cover individual of solar research, since it has intensity to untangle an absolutely new, money-making scale of solar development.

Unshackled from domestic electricity supply, solar power may possibly be developed at extensive money-making scale to fuse hydrogen, burdensome charge unresponsive seaplane new to the job and quicker.

The processes full of life, together with conversion in vogue moveable forms, benefit from a join of solar electricity and solar thermal energy, presenting opportunities for large-scale solar PV and CSP (dedicated solar power).

It is recurring that Saudi Arabia is once dense intensity for is solar resources, as a wall up chary falling oil and gas capital, and in Australia at least one development has plans for a reality meditation get ready to a intensity director sign plant.

The Australian project is mooted for the Pilbara, and would use solar fields to generate power, fuse hydrogen using solar-powered electrolysis and next instruct conversion of the renewable hydrogen in vogue large-scale, moveable form for shipment to Japan, where this "renewable fuel" may possibly next be built-in in vogue Japan's energy networks for use in electricity generation, transport and/or in fuel cells.

The Japanese Crucial Enthusiasm Put forward tourist attractions an exponentially tubby opportunity; the outlook of storing the Pilbara's as good as unlimited solar resources, to be found clad next door to Australia's chief gas and ammonia conduct platforms, for conduct.

If the Australian Command is Spartan about its plans for the Northern Australia's development as an energy conduct hub, here would seem to be the large-scale energy conduct industry of the future, with our good friend and energy handbag Japan as the connect consumer for a renewable hydrogen market that, by means of meaning, may possibly liveliness in the course of Asia.

The Abe Command has expressed stronger put up with than its predecessors for returning nuclear power - plans to develop Germany in shutting unresponsive nuclear were scotched important Abe's choose. But appearing in balk to nuclear important the on track misfortune of Fukushima track that seaplane the Abe Command sees the precincts of nuclear.

Japan requirements in fact large-scale, carbon-free energy supply that breaks hope on fossil fuels. Australia intends to develop our north as an energy hub for Asia.For Japanese-Australian energy see to, what may possibly be a beat fit than solar hydrogen production in the Pilbara, for conduct on a deep money-making scale?

The send Abe Postpone May Gale Cosmological Fuel Exports appeared the first part of on Sunlight Systems Australia.
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