The New Sunshine Project (NSS) is a Japanese project to develop the technologies for new energy and global environment, integrating the Sunshine, the Moonlight (Energy-saving technology R & D) and the Global Environment Technology Projects since 1993. It is the successor of the 1974
MITI Sunshine Project, and focuses on the development of
photovoltaic
Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially us ...
,
geothermal and
hydrogen
Hydrogen is the chemical element with the symbol H and atomic number 1. Hydrogen is the lightest element. At standard conditions hydrogen is a gas of diatomic molecules having the formula . It is colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, an ...
technology.
Programs
The New Sunshine Project includes multiple programs, the first one being the "World Energy Net-work (WE-NET) research program" that was running from 1993 to 2002.
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/ref> Another program was the "Development for safe utilization and infrastructure of hydrogen" which ran from 2003 to 2007.[2006 - Japan Fuel cell and hydrogen technologies roadmap]
/ref> This program was a project to develop the technologies for safe utilization and infrastructure of hydrogen and was the successor of the World Energy Network (WE-NET) research program.
The "Fundamental research project on advanced hydrogen science"[2007 - Japan Fuel cell and hydrogen technologies roadmap]
/ref> program was active until most recently, having started in 2006 until concluding in 2012. It aimed to develop the technologies to enable the transportation and storage of large volumes of hydrogen in a compact form.[ It is the successor of the development for safe utilization and infrastructure of hydrogen research program (2003–2007).
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See also
* NEDO
*Hydrogen economy
The hydrogen economy is using hydrogen to decarbonize economic sectors which are hard to electrify, essentially, the "hard-to-abate" sectors such as cement, steel, long-haul transport etc. In order to phase out fossil fuels and limit climate ch ...
*Hydrogen tanker
A hydrogen tanker is a tank ship designed for transporting liquefied hydrogen.
Research
The World Energy Network research program of the Japanese New Sunshine Project was divided into 3 phases during the period 1993 to 2002, its goal was to stud ...
References
External links
NEDO Development for Safe Utilization and Infrastructure of Hydrogen project page
Energy in Japan
Hydrogen economy
MITI projects
Science and technology in Japan
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