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Olivier van Beemen

Olivier van Beemen

Journalist

Sep 23, 2026

2:27
Why was it given that name?
2:29
Yeah, well, the idea was that Hyphen, so the main producer of green hydrogen for export to Europe, would take off there.
2:39
And the ambitions were really huge.
2:42
Hyphen is supposed to, yeah, it basically needs $10 billion for investment to take off, to be constructed.
2:52
And the GDP for Namibia is about $13 billion at the moment.
2:59
So it was nearly the complete GDP of the whole country of Namibia that was needed.
3:06
and uh by uh yeah as early as 28 29 the first export of of big quantities of uh green hydrogen which would first have been transformed to green ammonia would be exported to europe and then be transformed back into green uh green hydrogen exactly a year ago i traveled to the the uh The Global Africa Green Hydrogen Conference, as it was officially called, in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia.

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