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Now playing Next Home Europe’s energy crisis is boosting green hydrogen. Is it the future? The challenge of making hydrogen using only clean energies has long been to get the costs down to compete with fossil-based hydrogen. Then came the Ukraine war. 24/11/2022
Now playing Next Europe News Spain and France announce new deal to build underwater gas pipeline The leaders said the previous MidCat pipeline project across the Pyrenees would be abandoned. 20/10/2022