1. THREAD: This http://energyoptionsnetwork.org  report explores the key role zero-carbon hydrogen production will likely play in decarbonizing the global energy system & the significant role nuclear energy (*among other zero-carbon techs*) can potentially play.

https://energyoptionsnetwork.org/assets/uploads/Hydrogen%20Report_final_long_072420.pdf

2. To displace future carbon emissions from oil, natural gas and coal, hydrogen production will need to grow more than 15 times beyond today’s production, providing direct hydrogen fuel or liquid fuel feedstock – primarily ammonia.

3. The good news is a wide range of energy techs can potentially produce economically competitive, zero-carbon hydrogen including photovoltaics (PV), wind, natural gas with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), nuclear fission, fusion energy and SuperHot geothermal energy.

4. Moving to extensive production of zero-carbon hydrogen will take decades to pull off at scale, requiring public policies and market development, but there are clear examples of progress to build from today.

5. Japan is the clear leader, having committed significant resources to support developing the technology and infrastructure needed to broadly enable the production of zero-carbon, hydrogen-based energy (specifically, hydrogen gas and ammonia).

6. And there are more examples of useful hydrogen energy activity throughout the world, including the UK, EU, China, South Korea and California.

7. Because nuclear energy produces both electricity and heat--an inherent advantage over technologies that only produce electricity, like PV and wind--and can operate close to its maximum capacity, it is well suited to produce large-scale, low-cost, zero-carbon hydrogen.

8. Large hydrogen markets could bring about optimal nuclear designs, scale deployment to minimize costs, provide global export markets for nuclear hydrogen fuels & facilitate large-scale nuc developm't–well beyond power needs–in countries w adequate nuc regulatory infrastructure

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10. SUMMARY: The large future hydrogen fuels markets-combined w the opportunity to globally export hydrogen fuels-can potentially transform the future of nuclear fission techs. This will occur by dramatically expanding markets, leading to larger, lower-cost nuclear energy systems

11. This market opportunity can help address the ‘chicken or the egg’ investment problem for advanced reactors. If nuclear plants cannot be made cheaply (today’s reality), a large market – or any market – will not exist…

12. And without a large market, investment in production processes and large-scale deployment that drastically lower costs cannot be justified. END.

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