Producer: Lu Guozhen Writer: Huang Huiqun
“After 10 years of continuous development of electric vehicles and rapid expansion, the next trend will be taken over by ‘hydrogen.’ BMW President Oliver Zipse said in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg this year: ‘Hydrogen will become the Hottest Car Power!”
Not just cars. Hydrogen – from TSMC to Sinosteel, from driving a car to heating hot water, it’s all needed. It will replace oil and natural gas and its application is better than nuclear energy; it will subvert the rules of international trade, change the production methods of the semiconductor, steel and petrochemical industries, and enter human life.
Hydrogen trains run, hydrogen water heaters enter homes
Lead Germany to end the diesel era
In August this year, the world’s first hydrogen train rolled through the German countryside at a speed of 140 kilometers per hour in Lower Saxony in northern Germany. It looks like a regular train, but it actually uses hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity and drive the motors. Each time hydrogen is added, it can travel 1,000 kilometers, which is comparable to a diesel train, but the by-products are only steam and water; excess energy can also be recycled back to the train’s air conditioning system. Not only that, hydrogen heating and hydrogen water heaters are also entering German homes to replace expensive natural gas.
“Double Brand Scissors” will be a carbon-free product
Without transformation, the entire steel industry will disappear
Georgios Giovanakis, CEO of ThyssenKrupp, a German steel giant, stated bluntly that hydrogen steelmaking technology is not new, but no one would have considered this method of production before, “cheap coke, almost free energy , plus nobody cared before carbon dioxide, but now it’s different.” War has fueled energy shortages and climate change, Yowanakis said: “If we don’t do it now, there will be no industry in the next ten years iron and steel!”
The Germans have decided
In a few years, we must get rid of Russia
The Russo-Ukrainian war has begun, and since September, Nord Streams 1 and 2, which Russia supplies Germany with natural gas, have been “cut off”. The Germans were forced to restart disused coal-fired power generation, were forced to accept negative economic growth, and were forced to bear the consequences of war. Many companies need a fixed price to predict costs, and now the price of natural gas is high and fluctuating rapidly, pushing up many energy-intensive industries and using hydrogen as an incentive.
What about Taiwan, which is also heavily dependent on imported energy?
Where does hydrogen come from? Is it safe, will it explode with hydrogen? Is it more efficient and reliable than nuclear energy?
Without hydrogen, can’t TSMC produce chips with advanced processes?
Without zero carbon steel, will our 3C products exported to Europe have to pay a lot of carbon taxes?
The German Mercedes-Benz kitchen knife is carbon neutral, how to do it?
Does Taiwan also have a hydrogen factory? Will there be hydrogen trucks on the streets of Taiwan next year?
How does the EU enable businesses to update seamlessly? How can a city reduce its carbon emissions by 50% in 10 years?
In addition to Europe and the United States, China, Japan and South Korea also have leaders in hydrogen technology. What about Taiwan?
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