Energy & Science
Japan Eyes Replacing Oil With Hydrogen Amid Carbon Neutral Push
- Clean-burning fuel may represent 40% of Japan’s energy by 2050
- Japan needs to build infrastructure, ships to import hydrogen
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Tucked into a port in western Japan sits a spherical tank that may soon hold the country’s energy future.
The import terminal in the city of Kobe, is slated to get its debut hydrogen shipment in March. Over the next 30 years deliveries of the zero-emission fuel are expected to ramp up exponentially as the world’s fifth-biggest polluter seeks ways to replace its heavy fossil fuel use and meet a pledge to become greenhouse gas neutral by 2050.