The world has depended on fossil fuels for more than 150 years creating short-term benefits to civilization with unintended long term detriment to our natural environment. Today, humanity relies on fossil fuels for more than 80% of our energy needs, a pattern that must be reversed if we are to sustain life on this planet.
Hydrogen is the solution to the current energy crisis. Hydrogen shares all the same benefits and conveniences of traditional fossil fuels, from energy density and efficiency to availability and ease of production.
By ensuring that this zero-emission energy source is globally affordable and accessible, we're doing our part to repower the world on clean energy. H2C is our response to ending fossil fuel induced climate change.
To accelerate the hydrogen economy worldwide through the rapid, cost-efficient transport of green hydrogen and other forms of freight; and provide a practical solution to the safe “last-mile” delivery of pure hydrogen to end-users.
In 1987 the World Business Academy, a nonprofit think tank and action incubator that explores the role of business in relation to critical moral, environmental, and social issues of our time, was founded by Rinaldo Brutoco. The Academy's focal point is the role business can and should play in solving humanity's largest challenges with a focus on climate change and energy security as one of the most important threats to human survival. The work being done in the think tank led Rinaldo to co-author a book published in 2007— ‘Freedom from Mideast Oil’. Its final chapter Rinaldo lays out the case for why Hydrogen is the only possible carbon free replacement for fossil fuel.
Within the next year the Academy included in its research analysis of the biggest bottlenecks to realizing the Hydrogen Economy. The research yielded a clear answer: Transportation. Out of that clarity H2C (H2Clipper, Inc) was born.
The company was incorporated on June 10, 2011, and was granted the first patent December 25, 2012, for “System, method, and apparatus for widespread commercialization of hydrogen as a carbon free alternative fuel source”
H2C is committed to accelerating the hydrogen economy by providing a breakthrough in the transportation and infrastructure required to bring green hydrogen to market now at a price that is competitive with fossil fuel.
H2C provides the only integrated solution for both long-haul transportation of vast quantities of energy dense liquid hydrogen and last-mile distribution of gaseous hydrogen.
This is an imperative for all humanity.
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For almost forty years, as an entrepreneur and executive, my focus has been on exploring how business can best serve the common good. I think that business is the most important and most powerful institution on the planet. And we should use business to solve humanity's largest challenges.
Of all the challenges I have worked on during the past four decades, the threat that climate change poses to human survival is the biggest. We can only mitigate the effects of climate change by rapidly discarding fossil fuels as the base of our energy infrastructure. I believe that sustainably produced—green—hydrogen is the best, and likely only, solution we can implement to replace fossil fuels and to reverse global warming. Only hydrogen can produce and store electricity as well as power heavy industry and transportation. However, green hydrogen faces a challenge: It can be produced at competitive prices where solar, wind and other renewables are cheap. But many of these places are far away from where energy is consumed.
We started H2C to solve that problem. Our airships—in combination with our last mile ‘Pipe-within-a-Pipe’ distribution—can bring green hydrogen quickly and efficiently where we need it now. Therefore, H2C is an essential contribution to the biggest crisis of our times.
We can only succeed in reversing global warming when humanity is willing and able to work together. H2C is committed to be part of that collaborative effort. We hope you will join us in that effort.
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