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Porsche just found a way to make cars generate their own fuel while they drive, and it's part of a global shift that's fundamentally changing how we power hospitals and even how we feed the planet. Hi, I'm Steve Hill, CEO of NewHydrogen, with this week's top hydrogen news. Can you imagine a high-performance engine that actually produces its own fuel? A new patent from Porsche suggests they are working on exactly that.
According to reports from CarBuzz, Porsche has designed a system that carries specialized water-splitting hardware right on the chassis to generate hydrogen gas on demand. The water can even come from the car's windshield washer reservoir. Now, this isn't about replacing the gas tank. Porsche's goal is to solve the cold start problem. By injecting hydrogen during startup, they can preheat the catalytic converter instantly, eliminating the dirtiest part of the combustion cycle.
While this onboard approach works for a single car, it highlights a bigger truth. The future of combustion depends on having hydrogen available whenever and wherever you need it. It's a brilliant example of a legendary brand using hydrogen as a high-tech tool to keep the soul of the internal combustion engine alive. Porsche is joining a massive wave of hydrogen engine development from the world's most iconic brands.
Toyota is currently testing a 400 horsepower hydrogen-capable engine, and they've teamed up with Yamaha, Kawasaki, Subaru, and Mazda to ensure the roar of the internal combustion engine has a place in a zero-emission future.
Ferrari has also joined the race, recently patenting a radical upside-down hydrogen engine designed to maximize space for fuel storage. And Hyundai, already a global leader with nearly 30 years of hydrogen fuel cell experience, is now expanding its dominance into hydrogen combustion engines for heavy-duty equipment and commercial vehicles. It's a brilliant collective effort to use hydrogen as a high-tech tool to keep the soul of the performance car alive.
When lives are on the line in a hospital, power failure is not an option. That's why the healthcare industry is looking at a revolutionary way to store energy. Hydroxya has just secured a major contract to bring their solid-state hydrogen storage to Clickitat Valley Health, a hospital and clinic in Washington state. Unlike traditional tanks that store hydrogen as a high-pressure gas, Hydroxya's technology stores hydrogen inside a magnesium-based metal alloy.
It's safer, more stable, and doesn't leak or boil off like liquid hydrogen. For a hospital, this means a reliable, long-term backup power source that's more compact and easier to permit than traditional fuels. It's hydrogen being deployed where reliability is the only thing that matters. We often talk about hydrogen as a fuel for cars, but its most important role might actually be on your dinner plate. A massive project in Paraguay just took a huge step forward with the company Atome securing $420 million in financing for a landmark clean hydrogen and fertilizer plant.
To understand why this matters, you have to look at how we feed the world. Right now, 50% of the world's population relies on food grown with synthetic fertilizers. To make that fertilizer, you first have to make ammonia. And to make ammonia, you need massive amounts of hydrogen. Today, that hydrogen almost always comes from fossil fuels. This project in Paraguay changes the game. It will use 145 MW of renewable hydropower to produce clean hydrogen, which is then converted into clean fertilizer.
By replacing fossil fuels with clean hydrogen at this scale, we can decarbonize global agriculture and ensure food security for millions without the carbon footprint. Whether it's a Porsche engine, a hospital's backup power, or the fertilizer that feeds the planet, all of these applications share one absolute requirement. They need a reliable source of clean hydrogen that is cost-competitive with fossil fuels. Today, most clean hydrogen is made with expensive electricity and intermittent renewables. That's the bottleneck. We're breaking at NewHydrogen.
Our patent-pending ThermoLoop technology is being designed to use inexpensive heat and water to produce the world's cheapest clean hydrogen. We believe that by lowering the cost of the fuel, we accelerate the adoption of every technology we talked about today.
To learn more about our progress and how ThermoLoop works, visit us at newhydrogen.com and watch our short explainer video. NewHydrogen is a publicly traded company under the ticker NEUH. Thanks for watching and we'll see you again next week.