SunHydrogen Inc (HYSR)

[Consiglieri]

AUSTRALIA: WILL RUN H2GENERATOR'S FOR JAPAN

H2 TRANSPORT WILL BE VIA
THE CHEAPEST MOST COST EFFECTIVE METHOD
IF IT IS NOT LOCALIZED ON SITE PRODUCTION
CARGO SLOW SHIPS ARE VERY, VERY, CHEAP!

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In response, these economies have dramatically increased investment in domestic renewable energy generation. For example Japan, in 2011, introduced some of the most aggressive solar, wind and other renewable energy support subsidies in the world. This has rapidly accelerated domestic solar photovoltaic production.

However this acceleration of domestic renewable energy production has come a huge (and, arguably, unsustainable) cost.

The harsh reality for Japan and Korea is that, as with oil, gas and coal, they are renewable resource poor. The average solar resource in Japan and Korea is half that in the Pilbara. Wind resources are a fraction of those in southern Australia or the North Sea. Geothermal and hydro resources are largely exploited already. Their small land area and population density mean that land costs are prohibitive for renewable energy development on the industrial scale needed to ‘move the needle’ in these huge economies.

The PRHEP is a plan to:

generate renewable (solar) energy in the Pilbara on a major industrial scale at a world-leading low cost
store this energy as the world’s lowest cost renewable hydrogen,
ship this low-cost renewable hydrogen to Japan, Korea and Asia in the form of ammonia and LNG - using export infrastructure already existing and planned.



This plan can embed Northern Australia, and the Pilbara, firmly in the heart of Asian economic growth in the 21st century as the principal provider of low-cost, renewable hydrogen.

The PRHEP has the support of leading corporations – global, household names - in Japan, Europe and the US. The PRHEP has been developed since 2011, and is now the subject of a major feasibility study intended to lead to construction of a pilot project in 2015-16; the precursor to large-scale commercial roll-out.

The solar, electrolysis and hydrogen conversion and transport technologies to begin this new export trade with Asia exist today. They are neither novel nor untried; costs of these technologies are plummeting as global investment in renewable energy increases.

Beyond the proven technologies available today, massive investments are underway (in Asia, Europe and the US) to deliver and commercialise new technologies that will continue to drive costs down and to increase efficiencies in renewable hydrogen production, and in its conversion to ammonia and LNG for transportation in bulk.

Once intermittent solar energy has been turned into renewable H2 this gas can then be further processed into readily storable and transportable energy “vectors” for export - ammonia (NH3), liquid Hydrogen, and synthetic methane (CH4), all of which can be transported in bulk by ships to Japan, are methods available today.