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IT’s not hard to imagine the emeritus professor Neville Stephenson inspiring a standing-room-only gallery at the World Hydrogen Energy Conference.

The Bangalee resident is passionate about his invention, which produces hydrogen power from water.

That power could run cars, homes and industry.

Last week he used that passion to motivate hundreds of people, including movers and shakers from energy industries around the world, when he spoke of his creation and its potential at the Brisbane conference.

He and his team have created a carbon-free way to produce energy, and it can use carbon and the even more global warming gas methane to run.

The conference held every two years in a different country is a chance for the people with the ideas and hardware to meet the people with the money and influence.

“The feedback from the conference has been very good,” he said.

“Nobody has this technology, it has been developed over the last 10 years and now has more than $2 million invested in it from Australian investors.”

Mr Stephenson and his business partner have travelled to Japan, Germany, Philippines and Thailand with their technology and it has impressed at every stop.

They now have a factory in Thailand and expect that at the next conference they will be speaking about where their technology is being used rather than how it could be.

It has taken us 10 years to get to this stage, but now everyone is really buzzing. “It’s developing exponentially now. It will keep me out of the grave for a while yet,” he said.

“We can currently produce 67,000 litres of hydrogen in two hours, but we’re aiming to build a unit that is 200 times larger than that one.”