NewHydrogen announced on October 12, 2026, that on October 19 it will release a special report revealing an engineering milestone tied to ThermoLoop, its technology for producing clean hydrogen at industrial scale using water and heat rather than electricity. The premiere is set for 4:01 PM EDT.
ThermoLoop sits at the core of the strategy of the California-based company, headquartered in Santa Clarita and traded on the OTCQB under the ticker NEWH. The underlying principle is straightforward: instead of powering an electrolyzer with expensive electricity — which in conventional processes accounts for up to 73% of total production costs — the system draws directly on heat. A continuous, abundant heat source already exists: nuclear reactors, and small modular reactors in particular. SMRs generate high-temperature heat with no greenhouse gas emissions during operation, making them a natural fit for ThermoLoop’s approach.
The project stems from a structured research collaboration with the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), launched in August 2023. Since then, the team has designed and built a reactor test bench, successfully achieving the separation of hydrogen and oxygen from water through a thermochemical cycle — a concrete result, not merely a theoretical one. Existing thermochemical processes typically require temperatures around 2,000°C or rely on inefficient multi-stage cycles. ThermoLoop aims to do things differently: a redox looping process operating below 1,000°C, lowering the technological barrier and paving the way for integration with next-generation reactors.
In 2025, NewHydrogen filed two provisional patent applications in collaboration with UCSB, the second of which includes improvements to materials and the first public description of a novel isothermal hydrogen production process. The company also signed a memorandum of understanding with NuCube to integrate ThermoLoop with the NuSun microreactor. On the financial side, in April 2025 the stock was uplisted from the OTC Pink Market to the OTCQB Venture Market, a marketplace reserved for development-stage companies that meet stricter transparency requirements.
The market backdrop underscores the significance. Goldman Sachs has estimated that the clean hydrogen economy could be worth $12 trillion. Reaching that potential requires competitive production costs, and nuclear heat is one of the few levers capable of shifting those numbers in a structural way. NewHydrogen is not alone in pursuing this direction, but its combination of university research, filed patents, and agreements with microreactor developers gives it a tangible foothold in the field.
What exactly will be revealed on October 19 remains undisclosed for now. The fact that the company explicitly refers to an “engineering milestone” — rather than a program update or a commercial agreement — suggests that laboratory results have crossed a meaningful threshold. Should ThermoLoop demonstrate stable efficiency below 1,000°C with scalable materials, integration with SMRs would no longer be a prospect — it would become a buildable project.
