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High transportation costs could drive industries such as steel manufacturing to move to regions where hydrogen is produced, according to Saudi Aramco’s chief technology officer, Ahmad al-Khowaiter. Transportation costs for hydrogen are far higher than those for natural gas and oil because hydrogen molecules are volatile and difficult to liquefy. "There’s a big incentive for industries like steel to move to where the source of the blue and green hydrogen is" Khowaiter, Aramco “There’s a big incentive for industries like steel to move to where the source of the blue and green hydrogen is,” says Khowaiter. Hydrogen-reliant industries could mirror the trend seen in prim
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