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Hydrogen, water and
the Energy Transition: a case
study by Cannon Artes
Marcello Zelioli, Business Development length of 15 football pitches.
The importance of optimized Manager, Energy Transition Reaching Net Zero will require nothing
water treatment plants Serena De Maria, R&D Engineer short of a total transformation of the ener-
Cannon Artes
gy system that underpins our economies:
and water reuse for Green a paradigm shift, the so-called Energy
Transition.
Hydrogen production Although fossil fuel will continue to play an
his is a decisive moment important role in our energy mix in most
in the effort to tackle the of the Net Zero scenarios, the level of
climate crisis, dubbed by urgency towards identifi cation, research
many the greatest challen- and development of alternative renewable
ge of our time: reaching Net sources is unprecedented.
T Zero carbon emissions and The goal is the research and the deve-
limiting the rise in global temperature to lopment at scale of clean, renewable
1.5°C. energy sources that allows the world to
The Energy sector accounts for more gradually phase out fossil fuels while gua-
than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas ranteeing sustainable and inclusive energy
emissions, around 34 billion tons of CO stability.
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equivalent per year: to visualize what this Some of the tools needed in the path to
astounding number means, imagine that Net Zero for the Energy sector are already
it is the weight of a solid steel cube with a well established and developed at scale,
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