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Detailed explanation-1: -By India Today Web Desk: IIT Madras researchers have created a device, ‘Ocean Wave Energy Converter’, to generate electricity from sea waves and the trials have already been successfully completed in the second week of November 2022.

Detailed explanation-2: -R&D at National Laboratories Many DOE national laboratories perform hydrogen and fuel cell R&D: Argonne National Laboratory. Brookhaven National Laboratory. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Detailed explanation-3: -LARSEN & TOUBRO LTD (L&T) The plant produces 45 Kg of green hydrogen on a daily basis, which is used for captive consumption in the company’s Hazira manufacturing complex.

Detailed explanation-4: -A demonstration-scale seawater electrolyzer can split the salty water to make hydrogen for over 130 days, making 386 liters of hydrogen fuel an hour. Using renewable electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen is considered by experts the cleanest route to producing hydrogen fuel.