The race against time to mitigate climate change has increasingly focused on the development and deployment of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. New research shows that negative-emissions hydrogen production is potentially a cost-effective alternative.
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Yan, J. Negative-emissions hydrogen energy. Nature Clim Change 8, 560–561 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0215-9
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