Quest for Clean Hydrogen – Delaware Business Times [Video]

A couple of years ago, Dora Cheatham and some of her colleagues kept having this running conversation. “We would discuss how we needed more heavy water for various uses in Delaware,” she says. “In general, it’s hard to get hold of heavy water in the U.S. Since heavy water is a byproduct of electrolysis, that led us to discuss the production of hydrogen — clean hydrogen. So we started looking at doing that.”

It is still early spring when Cheatham, a board member and former leader of the Delaware Sustainable Chemistry Alliance, is telling her story, but she emphasizes she is not yet at liberty to reveal who all the “we” people are — except that they are founders of a new company, First State Hydrogen. “I’m the company’s first employee,” Cheatham says with a laugh. The new company is being headed by Andrew Cottone, who was previously in charge of an award-winning energy program at …