Carlsbad Current-Argus
November 4, 2021
New Mexico leaders hope state can be leader in emerging fuel source

New Mexico’s two Democrat U.S. Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan continued their pursuit of hydrogen to curb carbon emissions from energy generation, joining in the introduction of a package of bills to support the implementation of hydrogen power in the U.S.

The three bills would create grant funding for hydrogen power projects throughout the U.S. to support development of technology to generate “clean” hydrogen, needed infrastructure and research.

The bills were introduced by Heinrich and Lujan, along with a bipartisan group of U.S. Sens. including Chris Coons (D-Del), John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Bill Cassidy (R-La).

The bills were introduced by Heinrich and Lujan, along with a bipartisan group of U.S. Sens. including Chris Coons (D-Del), John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Bill Cassidy (R-La).

The most common method of producing hydrogen, per the DOE, through a thermal natural gas reforming when steam and hydrocarbons like natural gas react under pressure to form hydrogen.

This process accounts for about 95 percent of hydrogen production, per the DOE report. Hydrogen can also be produced using solar, electrical and biological methods which use these different avenues to generate heat to interact which cells to form the hydrogen…

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