All manner of industries are piling into the hydrogen rush
Including some grubby ones
“WE ARE BUILDING the energy company of the future…like Tesla did,” declares Seifi Ghasemi, chairman of Air Products. Comparing yourself to the electric-car darling may seem Napoleonic for a purveyor of industrial gases. But Mr Ghasemi, who has thought about one gas in particular, hydrogen, for 30 years, insists the comparison is apt.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “The hydrogen rush”
Business October 23rd 2021
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- Facebook’s rumoured name-change reflects ambition—and weakness
- The meaning of mission statements
- All manner of industries are piling into the hydrogen rush
- Zhongwang, a Chinese aluminium giant, resists American pressure
- Huawei should dissolve, disperse and seed China’s high-tech future
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