The PEACE + FREEDOM Project – Remote Areas Using Hydrogen for Energy Self-Reliance

Remote areas have the world’s highest death rates and cost of operations. As the global community struggles with shared problems including pandemics and climate change, connecting remote areas with the global community is becoming increasingly important.
The current economic model of remote areas is dominated by reliance on oil, yet oil supplies are not reliable in remote areas, with frequent fuel supply shortages, and prices are not predictable and not sustainably affordable. The result is remote areas in most of the world do not have reliable, affordable energy. This is a primary obstacle to connecting remote areas with the global community.
With this need, hydrogen applications appear in transportation, communications, and electricity as an option to allow remote regions to be connected to the benefits of the global community. In this study, specific technical and economic applications of hydrogen will be studied, quantified and analyzed, like simulation model to hydrogen economy for transport and communications systems for remote areas, energy for propulsion systems used in transport, particularly aviation, buoyant Lift for use in airships and aerostats, global trends and prediction models for the economics of oil versus hydrogen and cost comparison (Helium vs hydrogen – Photovoltaic vs Hydrogen).

Faculty Supervisor:

Loïc Boulon

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Partner:

Solar Ship Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

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