SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (June 16, 2023) — NewHydrogen, Inc. (OTC:NEWH), the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce low-cost green hydrogen, today announced that Steven Hill has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Hill has been serving as Vice President. Dr. David Lee, the Company’s founder, will continue to serve as the Chairman of the Board and President.
In his new role, Hill will champion the company's mission and technologies to investors, media, the public, and potential partners. With over two decades of senior-level experience in sales, marketing, and business development within the pharmaceutical industry, Hill brings extensive business knowledge to NewHydrogen.
"We believe that Hill's executive sales experience will immediately enhance the Company's market presence and visibility," stated Lee. "His unique vantage point will provide valuable insights as NewHydrogen progresses towards achieving its corporate objectives."
Hill said, “I am passionate about developing technology to solve global problems. I believe our hydrogen production technology has the potential to reduce the world's dependence on expensive rare-earth materials and dirty hydrocarbons. I look forward to working with other innovative technology partners to make this a reality.”
NewHydrogen is currently funding a sponsored research program at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), aimed squarely at developing technologies to lower the cost of green hydrogen. The goal of NewHydrogen’s technology development is to lower the cost of green hydrogen by eliminating or drastically reducing the use of precious metals in electrolyzers. Electrolyzers currently rely on rare materials such as iridium and platinum. These materials often account for a substantial portion of the cost of electrolyzers.
NewHydrogen is developing ThermoLoop™ – a breakthrough technology that uses water and heat rather than electricity to produce the world’s lowest cost green hydrogen. Hydrogen is the cleanest and most abundant element in the universe, and we can’t live without it. Hydrogen is the key ingredient in making fertilizers needed to grow food for the world. It is also used for transportation, refining oil and making steel, glass, pharmaceuticals and more. Nearly all the hydrogen today is made from hydrocarbons like coal, oil, and natural gas, which are dirty and limited resources. Water, on the other hand, is an infinite and renewable worldwide resource.
Currently, the most common method of making green hydrogen is to split water into oxygen and hydrogen with an electrolyzer using green electricity produced from solar or wind. However, green electricity is and always will be very expensive. It currently accounts for 73% of the cost of green hydrogen. By using heat directly, we can skip the expensive process of making electricity, and fundamentally lower the cost of green hydrogen. Inexpensive heat can be obtained from concentrated solar, geothermal, nuclear reactors and industrial waste heat for use in our novel low-cost thermochemical water splitting process. Working with a world class research team at UC Santa Barbara, our goal is to help usher in the green hydrogen economy that Goldman Sachs estimated to have a future market value of $12 trillion.
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