DO YOU HAVE ANY OF THESE 20 SOURCES IN YOUR STATE? IF SO, WE CAN CREATE HYDROGEN FROM IT!

This fact sheet from the Environmental and Energy Study Institute outlines various feedstocks and production processes used to create hydrogen, ranging from fossil fuels and biomass to renewable energy sources and naturally occurring geological deposits.

• Steam Methane Reformation (SMR) is the most common hydrogen production method because of its high efficiency and low cost; it separates hydrogen from carbon atoms in methane by reacting natural gas with high-temperature steam. SMR can utilize natural gas, renewable natural gas, and municipal waste.
• Electrolysis uses an electric current to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. When powered by renewable sources like wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal, or hydropower, the resulting hydrogen is considered renewable. This process is used in 'power-to-hydrogen' projects that utilize excess renewable electricity.
• Other hydrogen production methods include gasification (reacting coal or biomass with steam and oxygen), biomass-derived liquid reforming (reacting renewable liquid fuels like ethanol and methanol with steam), microbial biomass conversion (fermenting sugar-rich feedstocks), and photobiological water splitting (using microbes like green algae). Additionally, hydrogen can be produced via photoelectrochemical water splitting using semiconductors and sunlight, partial oxidation of oil, or extracted from naturally occurring geological sources in the earth's crust and oceanic crust.

APA

Environmental and Energy Study Institute (n.d.). DO YOU HAVE ANY OF THESE 20 SOURCES IN YOUR STATE? IF SO, WE CAN CREATE HYDROGEN FROM IT! https://www.eesi.org/files/Feedstocks.pdf

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Environmental and Energy Study Institute. DO YOU HAVE ANY OF THESE 20 SOURCES IN YOUR STATE? IF SO, WE CAN CREATE HYDROGEN FROM IT! n.d. https://www.eesi.org/files/Feedstocks.pdf.

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@techreport{environmentalandenergystudyinstitutendyou, author = {{Environmental and Energy Study Institute}}, title = {{DO YOU HAVE ANY OF THESE 20 SOURCES IN YOUR STATE? IF SO, WE CAN CREATE HYDROGEN FROM IT!}}, institution = {Environmental and Energy Study Institute}, url = {https://www.eesi.org/files/Feedstocks.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }