Here’s a good idea… A hydrogen industry, it's good. But a sector for produce green hydrogen thanks to the gasification of agricultural biomass, it's better.
First of all : why hydrogen interests governments ? Because hydrogen can be produced here. Not like the oil that comes from afar and that we don't control.
in addition, hydrogen creates jobs that cannot be relocated. This is the hydrogen revolution : we produce and consume energy in the same place.
But the hydrogen problem, it's that you don't find it like that. It happens.
In everyday language, the way to produce hydrogen gives it a color : gris, it is with fossil fuels, vert, if it is renewable energy.
We agree : hydrogen is useless if it is made with fossil fuels. It is to shift the problem of pollution. So the goal, is to produce green hydrogen.
For the moment, when you are told about green hydrogen on TV, it is hydrogen produced by electrolysis of water. Therefore, green hydrogen by electrolysis only occurs where there are wind turbines, solar panels and nuclear power plants.
Producing green hydrogen with agricultural biomass
Moi, I prefer an alternative: green hydrogen from agricultural biomass.
It's common sense: France is covered with fields. So agricultural biomass is available everywhere.
And the agricultural biomass that we will use to produce hydrogen, it's a head of rotation.
We will use a plant that regenerates the soil between two food crops, and we avoid phytosanitary products.
This plant, it could be hemp. It is grown by farmers around the green hydrogen production unit.
And we harvest it to create gas: it is gasification that makes it possible to obtain either green methane, either green hydrogen.
The advantage of agricultural biomass gasification over electrolysis, is that it really is THE process of the energy transition.
eh yes. As gasification produces two different gases on demand, we can supply green methane now for the gas network. Ensuite, with the same setup, we produce energy for trains, trucks then cars and planes that use hydrogen.
Successful energy transition thanks to agricultural biomass
The other advantage, it's just one green hydrogen production unit of agricultural biomass adapts above all to the local energy needs of industrialists, communities, farmers and people within a radius of about 35 kilometers.
It is very efficient: a single production unit of green hydrogen from agricultural biomass can provide as much energy as the annual consumption of 10,000 homes. Or the fuel equivalent for 12,700 diesel cars for a year.
And like the green hydrogen production units of agricultural biomass are adaptable and duplicable, it suffices to deploy them on demand to meet the needs of the energy transition in the territories.