La Secretaria de Energía Jennifer Granholm explica qué es el Hidrógeno Limpio

What's in this glass right here can be an incredibly powerful tool for us to decarbonize our economy and tackle the climate crisis and create a ton of good-paying jobs. So let me explain. This is water, by the way. So hydrogen is a fuel that can be produced using, yes, water, from energy sources like wind, solar, natural gas, and other methods. Clean hydrogen emits zero carbon emissions when it's used like, for example, fuel in a fuel cell to produce electricity or as a way to store energy for long periods of time. Hydrogen can also be carbon neutral when it's produced from natural gas resources that use carbon capture and storage technologies and address methane leaks, avoiding harmful greenhouse gas emissions in the process. I'm super excited about clean hydrogen because of this reason, the potential to remove carbon emissions from very difficult to decarbonize sectors of our economy like steel and metals manufacturing and heavy transportation like trucks. And it's going to be a crucial clean energy source that it will help us to realize President Biden's goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Clean hydrogen can also play a huge role when it comes to energy storage. Hydrogen can be stored for long periods of time. So if all other energy sources fail, hydrogen can be a clean, reliable backup source ready to keep the lights on and power the grid. That is a phenomenal question. At the moment, clean hydrogen is quite expensive, especially when it comes to production or storage or deploying it at scale. So in order for clean hydrogen to become a widely used fuel and help us to tackle the climate crisis, we have to lower the cost to make it competitive. And once we do, clean hydrogen, that economy will create a ton of good paying jobs all over the country. And it's going to help us reach the president's goal of net zero emissions by 2050. The Department of Energy has just launched our hydrogen shot as part of our energy earth shots initiative, which is to reduce the cost of clean hydrogen by 80 percent to one dollar per one kilogram in one decade, our one for one in one goal. And achieving that hydrogen shot is going to allow us to produce and store and transport and use abundant hydrogen. And the bipartisan infrastructure deal and the president's build back better agenda also call for clean hydrogen demonstration projects across the country. And those demonstration projects have the potential of creating hydrogen deployments in key areas that are transitioning away from fossil fuels and create good paying jobs in the process. So the hydrogen shot is a big, hairy, audacious goal. But at the Department of Energy or the Solutions Department, as I like to call it, we're working with our national labs and industry and states to get this done. Clean hydrogen is the future.