When the basis for the press release is coming from politicians and the company seeking funding, of course they are going to make it sound like the panacea we know it's not. Please understand the quantum reformer is just the next generation, in a long and prestigious line, all starting with the turbo reformer and with the advent of digital technology the hyper reformer and now, salient of our day and advances in technology, the quantum reformer.
I am very suspect of one item, being the expectation to produce 100% hydrogen via just reformation. I am feeling these are just catch phases to jump on the green bandwagon. That said, I do see great benefit in dual stream, energy production, with a single feed stock and two marketable products. There's a company in the UK using a steel smelting to produce steel and recycle cement, same energy input but two marketable products. I've never seen these as being actually green but a prudent and efficient use of energy. Too many industries were built around the concept of a certain feedstock being cheap and highly available with no thought or care of efficient use of that feedstock. Maybe it's the engineer in me but I hate seeing things wasted when a small, possibly cost neutral or cost saving design change at the inception could have prevented the waste in the first place.
