The first ever liquid hydrogen shipment promises a new era of fuel exports for a world that’s curbing emissions, though huge challenges remain to deliver a rival to established clean energy sources.
“The opportunity is enormous,” Angus Taylor, Australia’s energy minister, said Friday as workers prepared to load a vessel with gas chilled to -253 degrees Celsius on a jetty south of Melbourne. “This is no fantasy -- there’s a ship here that will be leaving port and going to Japan to provide a product to customers.”
