Using Heat and Water to Produce
Industrial-scale Clean Hydrogen

Short Explainer Video

The Problem

The primary way of making clean hydrogen today is to split water using clean electricity (solar and wind) and electrolyzers.

Clean electricity is expensive!
Electrolyzers are also expensive!
Today 73% of the cost of clean hydrogen is electricity.
Electrolyzers are based on a 200-year-old technology.
Now there is a better way!

Heat is cheap!

Heat can be available everywhere!
- Concentrated solar
- Nuclear reactors
- Waste heat from industrial plants (oil refinery, cement, etc.)
Heat based systems are more scalable and have the potential to be cheaper than electrolyzer systems.
But using heat to split water has been very difficult and very inefficient.

The Solution

When Temp 1 is close to Temp 2 , system downtime is minimized, and hydrogen production “loops” continuously.

ThermoLoop® is a breakthrough technology that allows all reactions to happen at nearly the same temperature!
These reactions are called near isothermal reactions.
The process is called thermochemical water-splitting.
Easy to say, hard to do. That is why all other thermochemical approaches have fallen short.
Heat based systems are more scalable and have the potential to be cheaper than electrolyzer systems.
To achieve this “holy grail” of isothermal reactions, we are developing novel materials and chemical reactions from the ground up.

When Temp 1 is close to Temp 2 , system downtime is minimized, and hydrogen production “loops” continuously.

Novel Material

Using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, we have engineered a novel material with just the right “goldilocks” attributes to enable scalable isothermal reactions.
We combined materials from different parts of the periodic table to create this “goldilocks” novel material.

Novel Material

We Designed a Set of Novel Chemical Reactions

We Designed a Set of Novel Chemical Reactions

We used a new paradigm that exploits the phase change properties of our Novel Material, as it cycles from solid to liquid to gas, and back to solid.

It is this phase change that allows us to reduce the temperature difference between the reactions.
This is the magic trick that we believe will allow us to achieve highly efficient isothermal reactions to enable continuous production of hydrogen from water.

A Highly Scalable Thermochemical Water-Splitting System

We combine all these innovations to create ThermoLoop®, a highly scalable thermochemical water-splitting system that we believe will produce the world’s cheapest clean hydrogen!

ThermoLoop® is agnostic to the source of heat or water.
Couple ThermoLoop® with any available source of heat, and we will have a low-cost clean hydrogen production machine – anywhere, anytime!

Using Heat and Water to ProduceIndustrial-scale Clean Hydrogen

The Problem

Heat is cheap!

Heat is cheap!

The Solution

Novel Material

Novel Material

We Designed a Set of Novel Chemical Reactions

We Designed a Set of Novel Chemical Reactions

A Highly Scalable Thermochemical Water-Splitting System

A Highly Scalable Thermochemical Water-Splitting System

Using Heat and Water to Produce
Industrial-scale Clean Hydrogen