Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Electrical Energy from Hydrogen

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BUENOS AIRES, Oct 17 2005 (IPS) - With support from the Argentine government, experts at an experimental hydrogen factory are studying the technical-economic possibilities of producing large quantities of electrical energy through turbines fed by this clean fuel. This according to Horacio Canestro, head of planning at the Experimental Plan for Hydrogen Generation, located in Pico Truncado, in Santa Cruz province, 2,000 km south of Buenos Aires.

Hydrogen is abundant in nature and its combustion is clean, but this element is not found in an isolated state. To produce it on a small scale, the Pico Truncado plant uses wind energy.

The electricity to be generated by the factory will be sent to the Argentine mixed enterprise Enarsa, created in 2004 at the government's behest to produce, industrialize, transport and market petroleum, natural gas and other fuels.