VARENNES, CANADA — The Daniel-Johnson hydroelectric dam in Canada's Quebec province will soon be one of the dams powering one of the biggest green hydrogen plants in the world. Here are the details:<br /><br />The dream of a world running on a fuel that leaves only water vapor when it is burned, is becoming reality. <br /><br />CNBC reports that German industrial conglomerate Thyssenkrupp has won a contract to build a huge hydrogen plant in Varennes, in one of Canada's biggest hydroelectric power grids. <br /><br />The biggest problem with hydrogen fuel is that it takes a lot of water and electricity to sustain the electrolysis process that produces the hydrogen, so it makes a lot of sense to use nearby dams to deliver water and sustained green energy for the electrolysis process. <br /><br />The huge new plant will use a whopping 88 megawatts of electrical energy, that's 88 million joules per second, to produce 11,000 tons of hydrogen per year. <br /><br />The company says one of the advantages of being located in Varennes, is that the plant can run on 88 megawatts of green hydro power without interruptions. <br /><br />This is ideal, as hydrogen is cheaper to produce when electrolysers are working around the clock. <br /><br />Another by-product of the electrolysis process is oxygen, which will be used in a biofuel plant to produce biofuels from residual waste.
