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1. About hydrogen
The Law on Energy Transition for Green Growth (LTECV) published in the Official Journal on August 18, 2015, and the accompanying action plans aim to enable France to make a more effective contribution to combating climate disruption and preserving the environment, as well as strengthening its energy independence while offering its businesses and citizens access to energy at a competitive cost.
As a preamble, the word "hydrogen" was first proposed by French chemist, philosopher and economist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) to designate a gas that explodes in the presence of oxygen to form water vapor: from the Greek "hydro-", meaning "water", and the suffix "-gène", meaning "to generate" in Greek. Lavoisier thus referred to hydrogen as the "gas that generates water"....
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Bibliography
Websites
https://hydrogeneurope.eu/hydrogen-production-0
https://energies.airliquide.com/fr/mediatheque-planete-hydrogene/comment-produire-lhydrogene
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