D-8 will cooperate with UNIDO-ICHET on learning and developing Hydrogen Energy Technologies
Istanbul, Turkey | September 09, 2008 by
The developing world will soon catch up and overtake the developed world in terms of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions because of higher rates of increase of energy demand. If the developing world is to follow the example of the developed world in terms of using coal, oil and natural gas to satisfy its energy needs, this will exacerbate energy security and environmental problems. It is thus imperative that developing countries "leap frog" over the conventional energy consumption path straight to the cleanest possible energy technologies, including renewables and hydrogen energy technologies. It would be ideal if, for example, the car industries of the developing Asian countries would avoid designing conventional cars that would compete with established companies and brands, but would instead focus on hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles. UNIDO-ICHET could help in this transition by supporting the funding and realisation of pilot projects.
For this reason, last week, Secretary General of D-8, Dipo Alam paid a courtesy visit to UNIDO-ICHET as a reciprocal response to previous visit to D-8 Secretariat by UNIDO-ICHET. Numerous issues were discussed during the meeting, such as potential cooperation in the future, technology development in hydrogen energy technologies, as well as further introduction on the both organization to both sides. During the meeting, among topic that was touched were the concern of D-8 head of states that was expressed during the previous D-8 KL summit. "This meeting is in line with the result of talks during the 4th WG on energy in Cairo earlier this year," said Alam. He underlined the need for technology development and cooperation with relevant parties in order to face energy crisis to find renewable energy through new innovation.
The meeting also talked about recent issue, where scientists from Australia and the United States reported to have replicated a process found in plants, which uses sunlight to make hydrogen from water. The process poses a potentially cleaner and more efficient method of producing energy for use in fuel cells. By replicating aspects of photosynthesis, the breakthrough could "revolutionize" the renewable energy industry by making hydrogen, touted as the clean, green fuel of the future, cheaper and easier to produce on a commercial scale.
Fuel cells, currently used as alternatives to gasoline-powered engines in vehicles, run on hydrogen that is mostly produced from refining fossil fuels. The new process would rely on renewable sources, rather than oil or natural gas, and use no electricity, said the scientists.
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