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Inside the global race to turn water into fuel

By Max Bearak
New York Times·
11 mins to read
Inside the global race to turn water into fuel
Inside the global race to turn water into fuel

Hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in a high-tech gamble to make hydrogen clean, cheap and widely available. In Australia’s Outback, that starts with 10 million new solar panels.

For eons, this has been a quiet, unremarkable place — thousands of square kilometres of flat land covered in

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