First Vice President of the Federation of Ceará Industries (Fiec), businessman Carlos Prado – founder of Ceará Máquinas Agrícolas (Cemag) and the Brazilian fruit-growing giant Itaueira Agropecuaria – sums up in one sentence the position taken by some people from Ceará who have begun to question the project to install the Pecém Center Green Hydrogen Hub, and began publishing opinions containing political bias.
Carlos Prado says this: “There is always someone who throws stones and someone who collects them to build something of value.”
Well, there are people who always have something to say. But there are others who always have to say something. There is a difference between them, and an even greater difference in what they say. In the case in question – the H2V Hub project in Besim – what is absolutely indisputable is the fact that today, January 10, 2024, there are four companies ready to start construction work on their units. In Ceara.
One such company is Australian multinational Fortescue, part of one of the world’s three largest business groups in the mining sector. Fortescue observers would not have crossed the Pacific Ocean, leaving Oceania to get here, if there had not been economic feasibility for their project to produce H2V in Pecém, which is already called the fuel of the 21st century and around which the sciences and capitals of the planet revolve.
Ceara mega-entrepreneur Mario Araribe, founder and main partner of Casa dos Ventos, the main Brazilian national company developing renewable energy generation projects, will also not participate in this project – for the same reasons. Your company has partnered with another company of foreign origin with which you will invest in a project aimed at H2V production in the future Pecém Hub.
Two other companies – Qair and Cactus Energia Verde – are ready, like Casa dos Vientos and Fortescue, to start building the green hydrogen plant in Becem, where they are just waiting for the regulation of this activity, a task that the national government would initiate. Congress and the Department of Mines and Energy have not given up yet.
Ibama has already issued a pre-license to these four companies, which has already secured the supply of reused water that Cagece will provide to them through a pop-up pipeline that will run from the existing wastewater treatment plant in Praia Leste-Oeste, in Fortaleza, to Pecém. complicated.
It will be about 5 cubic meters per second – more than double what the first four H2V projects at Besim need.
The production and consumption of green hydrogen is the dream of all the world’s economies, especially the most advanced economies, such as the European economies, whose governments have increased their enormous concerns about increasing global warming. Moving away from fossil fuels and replacing them with renewable energy is the goal of all environmental conservation policies, including those in Brazil. But this is not and will not be easy.
The science is still finding its way around H2V – just access the websites of major companies in the energy sector and those of the world’s best universities. A quick Google search will show varying opinions, research, and even projects on the same topic.
All efforts are focused on green hydrogen, which is produced using renewable energy, but gray hydrogen production is increasing, as fossil energy is used, causing pollution and harm to the environment.
Thus, today’s intelligent human work has one direction and one goal: stopping global warming and saving the lives of planet Earth and its inhabitants. Either we all join in this effort, or the human adventure will end sooner than we imagine.
