Today GCT is prepared to commercialize and deploy Dr. Patrick Grimes’ methodology to enable a rapid scale-up of green hydrogen to meet soaring demand for cheap, grid-independent, clean energy. It is a version of coal gasification, which burns the hydrogen gas obtained from coal to generate electricity.
GCT’s current technology focuses on a process called “Caustic Aqueous-Phase Electrochemical Reforming” (CAPER) to create green hydrogen, which is a different approach from traditional carbon capture and storage (CCS). It does not combust coal, but uses coal electrochemically to provide hydrogen gas which can be burned to generate electricity. It is well suited for co-location of an AI data center, using the heat waste of the data center in the CAPER process:
Given this technology, it even makes less sense to be dismantling the Campbell coal generating coal plant at this time. It is becoming technologically and economically feasible to generate electricity from coal free of any harmful emissions, as well as free of CO2 emissions, if the latter is politically required. Furthermore, it can help provide many valuable by-products, including needed rare earth minerals.