HyperSolar, Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.), the developer of a technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, announced that it is prepared to begin manufacturing the first series of its GEN 1 hydrogen panels for demonstration, as the last necessary tests on essential components have been completed.
The Company’s tech team has completed the translation of lab-based design on membrane and catalysts components into manufacturable design and parameters.
“Our biggest challenge for manufacturing was to replicate what we built in the lab in full scale manufacturing,” said Tim Young, CEO of HyperSolar. “Our device is now fully tested and ready for production. We are working closely with our manufacturers to meet our milestone to produce 100 demonstration units.”
Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Joun Lee, said, “Our team is very pleased to have reached this crucial crossroad that puts us in a position to do what has not been done before—to venture out from the lab and put the hydrogen production panel into manufacturing. We are also very much looking forward to increasing our research effort on our Gen 2 panel, which will be three times more efficient.”
As the team approaches larger-scale manufacturing of Gen 1, it will begin to funnel greater resources to the development of Gen 2, a nanotechnology solution to hydrogen production that management believes can completely change the economics of hydrogen production and thus the global energy playing field.
As the demand for hydrogen increases worldwide, renewable hydrogen companies are coming into the favor of investors, and chemical manufacturing is one of the main industrial sectors driving the growth of green hydrogen.