NATIONAL HYDROGEN MISSION
TOPIC: Govt. Initiative
Finance Minister in the union budget for 2020-21 formally announced the NHM which aims for the generation of hydrogen from green power resources.
CHALLENGES FOR INDIA
- Economic sustainability of extracting green or blue hydrogen.
- Hydrogen fuel cell technology is at nascent stage and is expensive which increases the cost of production of hydrogen.
- The maintainance costs for fuel cells post-completion of a plant can be costly like in South Korea.
- The commercial usuage of hydrogen as a fuel and in industries requires mammoth investmentin R & D of such technology and infrastructure for production, storage, transportation and demand creation for hydrogen..
WHAT IS HYDROGEN FUEL?
Hydrogen is the lightest and first element on the periodic table. Since the weight of hydrogen is less than air, it rises in the atmosphere and is therefore rarely found in its pure form, H2.