CAPILLARY ELECTROLYSIS ??? IS IT A LOT BETTER THAN ALKALINE AND PEM (PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES) ??? WHAT ???

With this new technology, green hydrogen could soon be produced just as cheaply as natural gas. This is the claim made by a company in Australia, and a professor in Germany with whom I spoke also sees this potential: 98 percent efficiency in the laboratory, 95 percent in industrial systems – that corresponds to onlyonly 41.5 kilowatt hours of electricity per kilogram of hydrogen. These are performance values that classic electrolysis plants can only dream of. This very technology is now on leap from research to industrial reality. And a large pilot project is already underway, with Australia, but also Germany and the US and many others on board. So today we're taking a look at what these promises really mean. We're talking to an expert from Fraunhofer IKTS who is researching the technology and assessing the claims: why capillary electrolysis is supposed to be so much cheaper and more efficient than previous electrolysis techniques, and what's happening in the field RIGHT NOW.

Special thanks to Dr. rer. nat. Karl Skadell from the Fraunhofer IKTS!

Responsible from the editorial team: Nina Bürger, Tabea Desch, Jacob Beautomps; Editing: Richard Senkleiter, Neo Sanjuan Thiele & Maximilian Latz.