The goal is to expedite the discovery and development of efficient, durable, and low - cost AWS materials capable of meeting the long
term hydrogen production cost goal of < $ 2 / kg hydrogen through the establishment and implementation of best practices.
Ironically, it was environmentalists that shut down this effort, and power industries around the world replaced capacity that would have gone nuclear mostly with coal, the worst fossil fuel in
terms of CO2
production (per BTU of power, Nuclear and
hydrogen produce no CO2, natural gas produces some, gasoline produces more, and coal produces the most).