Lego model

Big hydrogen world made of small bricks

HC-H2’s researchers build an elaborate LEGO® model.

On three and a half square meters, a LEGO® model represents part of the possibilities of the hydrogen economy of the future, which the researchers from Jülich want to demonstrate on a large scale in the Rhenish mining area. The bricks are still small and the ideas still dreams of the future. The HC-H2 team has spent many hours designing and building the LEGO® model to show people on a small scale what will be built on a large scale soon. The video tells the story of the construction of the miniature hydrogen landscape.

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