• Green Hydrogen: The production of green hydrogen is expected to increase significantly as governments and industries seek to reduce their carbon footprint. New projects and investments are being announced globally, and improvements in technology are likely to reduce the cost of producing green hydrogen.
• National Green Hydrogen Mission: India’s National Green Hydrogen Mission is a government initiative aimed at promoting the use of hydrogen as a clean and renewable energy source in the country, and it has just received INR 19,700 crore rupees as a part of the national budget 2023. This is to help facilitate the transition of the economy to low carbon intensity and reduce dependence on fossil fuel imports. This mission has the potential to transform the energy sector in India, reducing the country’s dependence on fossil fuels and contributing to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
• Nuclear Fusion:
The breakthrough technology
The technology is based on the fundamentals that power the sun. More so it can produce much more energy than current nuclear fission technology which is prevalent worldwide.
Researchers at NIF initiated this experiment by putting two isotopes of Hydrogen, Deuterium (D) and Tritium (T), in a tiny capsule at a scaled wheat grain size. Then, they projected a high-intensity light beam from 192 lasers. As a result, the electrons come out from their parent atom of the two isotopes, and along with their nuclei, they floated in another state of matter called plasma, which is the fourth state of matter like solid, liquid and gas.
While they are in the plasma state, which is a soup of positive (ions) and negatively charged particles (electrons), the bombarding of light continues, resulting in the combination of nuclei. When two nuclei combine or fuse, they release tremendous energy, which is the basis of nuclear fusion.
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