The government of US President Joe Biden is promoting the hydrogen economy with billions of dollars. In Europe, the implementation of a hydrogen strategy is still being debated.
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Coolidge, Rochester, Santa Fe They hover dark red over the city. Five giant letters at the top of an old skyscraper: Kodak. The film maker was an American icon. In 1988, Eastman Kodak employed 145,000 people and controlled two-thirds of the world camera market. The headquarters were in Rochester, the industrial city on Lake Ontario that became rich with Kodak. Then came the 90s, digital cameras and the decline. In 2012 Kodak went bankrupt. Rochester fell into disrepair.
“That’s over now,” says Daniel O’Connell, Innovation Center Manager at Plug Power. “We are the heart that revitalizes this region. With hydrogen.” He guides us through the group’s gigafactory, which produces fuel cells and electrolysers, building blocks of the hydrogen economy. In a hall there is a machine the size of a coach. It comes from Kodak, Plug modernized it. It used to be used in film production, now it prints on the membranes of fuel cells.
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