hydrohub
- noun
- Specialized
- The new hydrohub will streamline the production and distribution of hydrogen fuel across the city.
Examples
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The government plans to build several hydrohubs to support the transition to sustainable fuel sources.
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Investors are excited about the hydrohub as it promises to increase access to clean hydrogen energy.
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Coupled with hydrohub development, investment in the global container revolution paid off.
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However, rebalancing is threatened by flash floods, which the hydrohub cannot control.
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On Clarke Quay, hydrohub infrastructure appears dramatically as part of the overall designscape.
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Singapore buys and treats raw water on the mainland and pipes it across the Johor Strait into the hydrohub.
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Today, the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve sits beside the hydrohub's biggest reservoirs.
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In its current hard-edge form, the hydrohub may make Singapore more secure than its neighbors if and when climate change provokes sea rise, flash flooding, and faltering rain.
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However, the port's present-day form as a technozone emerged as a consequence of the Marina Barrage, the hydrohub's foundational structural element.
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Under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Board (PUB), the island-wide hydrohub collects, encloses, processes, and distributes water and also supports an international center for training and experimentation.
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Etymology
Hydrohub combines hydro- and hub. The hydro- part comes from a Greek word for 'water' and appears in hydrogen, the fuel gas, and hub means a central place that connects things, so a hydrohub is a central site for producing, storing, and sending hydrogen fuel.