Advancing green energy solution with the impetus of COVID-19 pandemic

Mohideen, Mohamedazeem M.; Ramakrishna, Seeram; Prabu, Sivaprasath; Liu, Yong

doi:10.1016/j.jechem.2020.12.005

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“…Casado-Aranda et al ( 2021 ) found that scientific publications on writing COVID-19 pandemic are flared with the mixing of strategies and policies that need to be confined to strategic thinking and operational procedures the meaningful and smart inferences. The more traces found from the recent literature that confirmed the viability of innovation and green production process to improve healthcare sustainability agenda, which is likely to reduce coronavirus cases (see Mohideen et al 2021 ; Arribas-Ibar et al 2021 ; Ranjbari et al 2021 ; Dean et al 2021 ; Su and Urban 2021 ; Wang et al 2021 ). Based on the stated scholarly contributions, the study proposed the following statement: H3: Green energy transition and R&D expenditures would likely support healthcare sustainability agendas to cope with coronavirus cases.…”

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Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The world faces a high alert of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), leading to a million deaths and could become infected to reach a billion numbers. A sizeable amount of scholarly work has been available on different aspects of social-economic and environmental factors. At the same time, many of these studies found the linear (direct) causation between the stated factors. In many cases, the direct relationship is not apparent. The world is unsure about the possible determining factors of the COVID-19 pandemic, which need to be known through conducting nonlinearity (indirect) relationships, which caused the pandemic crisis. The study examined the nonlinear relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages, managing financial development, renewable energy consumption, and innovative capability in a cross section of 65 countries. The results show that inbound foreign direct investment first increases and later decreases because of the increasing coronavirus cases. Further, the rise and fall in the research and development expenditures and population density exhibits increasing coronavirus cases across countries. The continued economic growth initial decreases later increase by adopting standardized operating procedures to contain coronavirus disease. The inter-temporal relationship shows that green energy source and carbon damages would likely influence the coronavirus cases with a variance of 17.127% and 5.440%, respectively, over a time horizon. The policymakers should be carefully designing sustainable healthcare policies, as the cost of carbon emissions leads to severe healthcare issues, which are likely to get exposed to contagious diseases, including COVID-19. The sustainable policy instruments, including renewable fuels in industrial production, advancement in cleaner production technologies, the imposition of carbon taxes on dirty production, and environmental certifications, are a few possible remedies that achieve healthcare sustainability agenda globally.

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Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

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“…The hydrogen economy depends mainly on the clean and efficient production of hydrogen, its storage on the supply side, and the commercial utilization of the energy that is generated across the hydrogen value chain on the demand side [4,7,25]. Figure 3 demonstrates that the value chain of the hydrogen economy in Korea is thus: production-storage and transportation-utilization [7,15].…”

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“…The review of related literature revealed that there are two broad branches for researching the hydrogen economy. One is related to the investigation of the present status of the hydrogen economy and its roadmaps, and it recommends some policies to boost the growth of the hydrogen economy [2,4,5,9,10,18,20,27,29,30].…”

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“…Although these countries have been investing since the last decade, there are still many unresolved issues related to the high cost of producing hydrogen, as well as to its low energy efficiency [18,26,27]. Inevitably, these governments must invest in R&D to achieve reasonable performance and cost targets, as well as generate supply and demand chains for clean hydrogen by developing new infrastructures, reconverting natural-gas pipeline systems, creating new hydrogen markets, and transitioning grey hydrogen industrial sectors toward employing low-carbon hydrogen [4,9,27]. Further, the coordination between different stakeholders must be strengthened [4,5,27].…”

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“…The "hydrogen economy", which is defined as a society where hydrogen (named by Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier in 1783 [1]) is employed as the energy carrier in its energy system [2], emerged as a term in the early 1970s, following the oil crisis (1973)(1974), as a strategy for eradicating the energy dependence of the West on the Middle East [3,4]. Since passing three international treaties, namely, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, 1992), the Kyoto Protocol (1997), and the Paris Agreement (2015), developing and developed nations, including the US, Japan, as well as the EU have been competing to dominate the hydrogen economy, with the impetus of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic [5][6][7].…”

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South Korea developed its hydrogen strategies to achieve carbon neutrality and dominate the hydrogen economy amidst, and with the impetus, of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The government strives toward the goal via continuous investment in green hydrogen technologies, as well as strategic collaborations. To facilitate the transition into the hydrogen economy, this study presents a research and development (R&D) investment and collaboration framework as a national strategy. The framework offers abundant information to elucidate the technology, R&D spectrum, and regional dimensions of the strategy. Furthermore, the proposed framework was applied to the Korean hydrogen economy comprising 955 nationally funded projects worth USD 565.7 million. The statuses and trends of the government’s investment in nationally funded research projects are illustrated with regard to the value chains of the hydrogen economies of 16 regions, as well as nine technology clusters relating to the hydrogen economy, thereby determining the research organizations that played crucial roles in each cluster of the 16 regions between 2015 and 2020. The results indicate that the research organizations in Daejeon acquired the highest government R&D funding in many hydrogen-economy-related research fields, and that an R&D spectrum-based research/strategic collaboration is required to accomplish specialized complexes in the regions.

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Advancing green energy solution with the impetus of COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 86 publications

References 47 publications

Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

Research and Development Investment and Collaboration Framework for the Hydrogen Economy in South Korea

Smarter and Greener Cities After COVID‐19: An Integrated Decision‐Making Framework to Prioritize Investment Alternatives

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