"Australia is sending the world’s first liquified hydrogen shipment to Japan via the Suiso Frontier, the world’s first LH2 carrier"

This braunkohle/biomass feedstock is not a very green process much less an eventually-cost-competitive way to move sunshine* to Japan but maybe the plan will pan out.

From OffshoreEnergy.biz, February 14:

World’s 1st LH2 shipment exported via Suiso Frontier

At the end of January, Victoria’s Port of Hastings marked the Suiso Frontier‘s arrival from Japan to Australia. Before that, in December, the world’s first liquid hydrogen carrier left Japan to pick up its first cargo in Australia.

This is a major milestone in the A$500 million ($355 million) Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) pilot project. The project is the first in the world to extract, liquefy and transport LH2  by sea to an international market.

The Suiso Frontier will transport the super-cooled LH2 from Port Hastings to Kobe, Japan.

Australia is investing around $1 billion into the development of its hydrogen industry. This also includes $329.5 million to develop clean hydrogen industrial hubs in regional Australia....

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Last month: 

World's First Liquified Hydrogen Carrier Departs Japan To Pick Up First Load In Australia

*If interested see also:

• Heads-Up Yara, CF: "Green ammonia electrolysis breakthrough could finally kill Haber-Bosch"
• Woodside To Spend Over $745 Million On Hydrogen, Ammonia Plant
• Australian Mining Billionaire Andrew Forrest Plans Green Energy Factory to Rival China
• Solar Power Export Cable From Australia to Singapore Gets Indonesia's Okay
• "Japan’s Big Bet On Hydrogen Could Revolutionize The Energy Market"
• Japan's Strategic Hydrogen Roadmap
• The First International Hydrogen Supply Chain Is a Big Deal

"Solar-to-Hydrogen Tech Sees "Remarkable" Efficiency Jump"

The Holy Grail is cost-competitive "green hydrogen" with "blue hydrogen", produced with natural gas via steam reformation and carbon capture being the second choice and "gray hydrogen" fossil fuel reformation without capturing the CO2 not making a lot of sense at this point.

There is still a long way to go on this quest for the green. The European majors are focusing on the "blue" as a stepping stone and as a reason to build out the hydrogen infrastructure while awaiting some fancy materials science to manifest in somebody's lab.

"Controversial Aussie gas-to-hydrogen power plant gets the green light"
An awkward headline and some awkward physics, what with the molar mass of the two gasses.
Yo, Avogadro, I got your number

• "Australia Accelerates Gigantic Green Hydrogen Export Project"
• This Could Be A Big Deal: Norway's Yara and the Australian Nitrogen Economy
• BP Smacks Exxon Upside Head With New Green Hydrogen Scheme (can SunCable to Singapore be far behind?)

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