Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Media Release
Australia and Japan’s joint technological expertise can lead the way in international clean energy, according to a joint report focussing on hydrogen, released today. This partnership will lead to new jobs, cleaner industry, and economic benefits for both nations.
The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) and The Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ), led by its Emerging Research Leaders Exchange Programme (ERLEP), launched their joint report ‘The Australia-Japan renewable hydrogen value chain’, at an event today in Osaka during World Expo 2025. ATSE and the EAJ have brought together Fellows from both Academies to shine a light on our shared potential.
The report outlines hydrogen’s emerging role as a clean fuel with potential across two nations’ economies – in construction, manufacturing, agriculture and fertilisers, and chemical production. It articulates the steps necessary to most expediently produce, transport, store, and use millions of tonnes of green hydrogen across Australia and Japan.
Fuelled by abundant and cheap Australian renewable energy using technologies leveraging Japanese and Australian inventions, green hydrogen is primed to become a critical industry and trade focus in the Asia-Pacific by 2050. Acting as a carrier of energy and a clean, highly useful chemical input, green hydrogen can also set up other sectors for success, including steelmaking and fertiliser manufacturing.
ATSE CEO Kylie Walker said, “Achieving this potential requires a sustained focus on skills, infrastructure and financing. Japanese and Australian innovation, working together in partnership, are a force to be reckoned with. Today’s report lays out how retrained personnel from existing energy industries could add to their existing knowledge and fill the critical hydrogen roles of the future.”
EAJ Chair of International Affairs Yuko Harayama said, “Japan and Australia are perfect partners for exploring the complementarity and synergy in their expertise in renewable hydrogen. The key would be to bring together stakeholders from industry and academia from both sides.”
The hydrogen industry is global, and so are the technological collaborations that will grow this new field. This report sets a gold standard on best-practice regional collaboration, opening the doors for future cooperation, research and technology development.
This report was led by ATSE Fellows with energy, resources and industry expertise, and by the ERLEP Executive Committee of the EAJ.
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This sounds to be something of potential.
Australia has a long history of scientific interpretation and invention
SomeAustralian ingenious inventions which have benefitted mankind :
black box flight recorder, invented by Australian scientist Dr. David Warren . (this bright orangeflight recorder is virtually indestructible)
spray on skin- to grow new skin from the patients own skin
electronic pacemaker-first developed in the 1920’s byAustralian doctor Mark Lidwill.
Google maps- developed in Stdney in the early 2000’s
medical application of penicillin 1939
cochlear – ear transplant 1970’s
ultra sound scanner – commercialised in 1976
inflatable escape slide and raft 1965 – Jack Grant a Qantas employee invented this – which is used by every airline in the world.
The vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix – vaccines used to prevent cervical cancer in women
So many more:
Let’s hope this joint research between ATSE and EAJ will come up with something which will be a real breakthrough in this endless gas, coal , wind, sun, versus nuclear stuff.
The problem for me is this release is big on blah blah but says nothing about the practical aspects of Hydrogen production. Apparently simple to produce but difficult to store, transport and use.I want to hear about solutions not about partnerships. Could mass production of hydrogen from seawater be an answer to rising sea levels for instance?