A Nigerian firm , Buserve Limited , has announced plans to introduce hydrogen -powered generators into the
country to enable businesses to reduce their electricity costs.
The Chief Executive Officer , Buserve Limited, Mr Laitan Aderinto, who disclosed this at a press briefing in
Lagos , said the technology was being deployed in Europe .
He said, “ We are partnering with a German company. We are starting with the bigger generators with capacity of 500KVA and above. Our plan is to ensure that factories are back to normal ; the price of diesel is killing them.
“ If the government is ready , we are ready to work with them. For instance, there a independent power plants in
Lagos that are being powered by gas . We can have IPPs powered by water instead of having to look for gas before
you can power your generators.” He explained that water -to -hydrogen gas mass production technology represented a major scientific breakthrough of the utmost importance .
According to him , the patented technology is based on an advanced proprietary scientific process , which
includes the invention of using thermoplasma to convert water into hydrogen gas in high volume for power
generation and at much lower cost than any other hydrogen production technology .
Aderinto said, “ Furthermore, since H 2 production is done in real time according to actual power production
requirements, there is no requirement for hydrogen storage, which is one of the greatest challenges in using
hydrogen gas as a renewable fuel source, not to mention avoiding a storage model is also much safer.
“ On average , with this technology, power is generated at about 10 per cent of the cost of diesel and very
importantly , no fossil fuel component is required to mix with the H 2 when using this technology .
He added , “ Water is the input and less than 10 per cent of the gross energy production is required to power
the equipment . For each litre of water fed into the retrofit system, the net output exceeds 1m 3 of H 2 gas .
“ This is a no -pollution technology designed to shift existing and future industrial power production away
from fossil fuels and , therefore, reduce the world’ s harmful emissions. Currently , approximately 25 per cent of
the world ’s harmful emissions is caused by industrial power production .”
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