The global potential for converting renewable electricity to negative-CO2-emissions hydrogen

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 621-625

  Rau, Greg H ^a   Willauer, Heather D ^b   Ren, Zhiyong Jason ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROKINESIS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HYDROGEN; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 85049014216     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-018-0203-0     Document Type: Review

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