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06-14-2006, 08:53 PM
Commercial project will help manufacturing and oil, gas refining. (http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060610/NEWS02/606100304/1029)
Joe Estrella - Idaho Statesman - June 10, 2006
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The nation's first commercial plant using wind power to produce hydrogen will be unveiled today near Mountain Home.
Synthetic Energy plans to use a combination of wind power and electricity to produce hydrogen that can be used in chemical manufacturing and oil and gas refining, said Will Hart, a spokesman for Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho. Craig will be on hand at 10 a.m. for a ribbon cutting.
"We're talking a lot about high energy prices these days," Hart said. "Well, this is a project that will use a source of renewable energy to produce another kind of energy."
Hart said Synthetic Energy has a contract to sell the hydrogen it produces to Norco Inc., a Boise-based oxygen company.
The project will cost $1 million. Almost $200,000 of that will come from a grant issued by the U.S. Agriculture Department's Office of Rural Development, Hart said.
Joe Estrella - Idaho Statesman - June 10, 2006
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Wind_to_H2.jpg
The nation's first commercial plant using wind power to produce hydrogen will be unveiled today near Mountain Home.
Synthetic Energy plans to use a combination of wind power and electricity to produce hydrogen that can be used in chemical manufacturing and oil and gas refining, said Will Hart, a spokesman for Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho. Craig will be on hand at 10 a.m. for a ribbon cutting.
"We're talking a lot about high energy prices these days," Hart said. "Well, this is a project that will use a source of renewable energy to produce another kind of energy."
Hart said Synthetic Energy has a contract to sell the hydrogen it produces to Norco Inc., a Boise-based oxygen company.
The project will cost $1 million. Almost $200,000 of that will come from a grant issued by the U.S. Agriculture Department's Office of Rural Development, Hart said.