1. Hydrogen

1.1 State of the art

Dihydrogen seems to have become a new economic sesame for many entrepreneurs, financiers, elected representatives and politicians at all levels, on all sides and in all corners of the planet. The last few years have seen an extraordinary flowering of new industrial and mobility projects based on dihydrogen. The colossal investments and multiple stimulus plans will amount to millions of billions of euros worldwide by 2021, with recurrent calls for shareholdings from a number of major French and international groups.

South Korea has probably been one of the world's most involved countries in this area for decades. This is because the country is highly dependent on imported fuels, being the second largest importer of coal, fourth of oil and...