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Hydrogen vehicles face price and safety hurdles

Energy & Environment, Science & TechnologyJuly 1, 2020

H2X to produce 20,000 hydrogen vehicles in Port Kembla Hydrogen vehicles and hydrogen fuel currently very expensive Key to success is price parity with conventional vehicles and dispelling safety fears With media reports touting the return of automotive manufacturing in Australia through “clean, green” hydrogen-powered cars, one has to ask, is it all just hot air? Hydrogen is produced from natural gas reforming (a thermal process), and electrolysis, in which the hydrogen is produced when water is broken down. Other methods include solar-driven and biological processes. In hydrogen-fuelled cars, hydrogen gas and oxygen are drawn from the atmosphere into the…

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Beijing steps up repression in Hong Kong

Cover Story, Foreign AffairsJuly 1, 2020

by Peter Westmore Following months of unrest in Hong Kong over the refusal of the Beijing-nominated Government to protect human rights and the rule of law, the communist-controlled National People’s Congress in Beijing has adopted a security law which will be enforced in Hong Kong. This is contrary to the Sino-British Treaty signed in 1984. The new law has the following elements: Beijing will establish a national security office, staffed by mainland security services, to supervise local authorities in policing the law. Hong Kong’s top official will pick which judges hear national security cases, overriding the independence of Hong Kong’s…

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