FUEL OF THE FUTURE By Justin Jin

"Fuel of the Future", as hydrogen is often called, risked being forever a dream because the volatile gas is difficult and expensive to handle. But climate change and Russia's aggression are pushing many countries to speed up the transformative leap to renewables. H2, hitherto little talked about, has been catapulted to the forefront to replace fossil fuels. Justin is developing this story through 2023.

A worker refuels a hydrogen bus at the depot in the Netherlands. The process takes around 10 minutes, and the bus needs to be fuelled only once or twice a day.
Steel-making is one of the world's most pollutive industries, contributing to some 8 - 10 % of global emissions. One steel-maker aims to change that.
Vattenfall, Sweden's energy provider, joined forces with steel-maker SSAB and miner LKAB to launch HyBrit, the world's first fossil-free green steel.
At the HyBrit green steel plant in Arctic Sweden.
Decarbonising steel-making requires the cleaning up of the entire value-chain, starting with the iron-ore miner.
Here, in the world's deepest iron ore mine in Arctic Sweden, the miner is turning to hydrogen and electricity to excavate the ore.
Iron pellets produced by hydrogen DRI technique.
A boat carries wind-turbine blades into a North Sea port that supplies the construction of the world's biggest wind farms. Hydrogen offers a way to store excessive energy produced by the wind turbines when there is too much wind, and releasing it into the grid when the wind subsides.
The world's first H2 airplane, made in Germany, is now also re-fitted to become the world's first aircraft using liquified hydrogen, with the new technology allowing long-haul flights.
Europe cannot produce enough renewable energy. It needs Africa.
Women grow organic vegetables in an oasis in the Sahara desert in Mauritania using solar energy. The planned hydrogen production will require the building of desalination plants, from which some pure water will be diverted to the desert for agriculture
People look out at fishing boats docked on the Atlantic Ocean.