Clean hydrogen, which South Africa is ideally placed to produce because of its superior sunshine and platinum abundance, is earmarked to replace oil in a world anxious to mitigate climate change, the planet’s most pressing current problem. New liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) technology has made it possible for hydrogen to be handled in the same way as oil is, using conventional oil tankers and road tankers for transport and traditional underground tanks for storage, in ambient conditions, with platinum group metals (PGMs) potentially prominent throughout.
