By BEX Staff for AZBEX
Casa Grande’s swelling development roster for high-tech and related manufacturing projects recently received another prospective addition. Recent media reports say Air Products and Chemicals is planning a facility in the city to produce liquid hydrogen.
Hydrogen is used in a variety of industrial applications, including semiconductor manufacturing, as well as a fuel source for a growing segment of alternative fuel vehicles. The company has a facility in Chandler, which has been in operation since 1979.
The proposed Casa Grande facility would be on 40 acres in the area of Peters and Burris roads on agricultural land currently owned by Lester Vernon Barnes & Patricia G Barnes.
According to the company website, Air Products has won numerous awards of interest in the Environment, Social and Governance investment community, including a 10-year long listing in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook and a run of six consecutive years earning the highest possible ranking in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Corporate Equality Index.
The company also has increased its quarterly dividend for 40 consecutive years.
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Not the ‘ecological, anti-global warming’ project you might think it would be.
This would need a ‘lot’ of water, a ‘lot’ of natural gas (methane, a fossil fuel), and a ‘lot’ of electricity (probably produced by burning methane).
Would even 51% of the resources needed to run this thing come from renewable sources (solar, wind)?
We can get plenty of gas (at our own peril), but we are already running out of water.