Ian McShane is the latest name to join the cast of the Dubai-produced animated epic Bilal.
The actor, director and voice-over artist is probably best-known to global audiences as Blackbeard from Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, though UK audiences will forever remember him as Sunday night's antique dealing super sleuth Lovejoy. He has also appeared in Kung Fu Panda, Coraline, and won a Golden Globe for his role in Deadwood.
Bilal tells the story of the eponymous African former slave and eventual leader, voiced by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The movie is slated for release at the end of this year, and the recently released trailer has already notched up over 1.5M views on YouTube.
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Hydrogen: Market potential
Hydrogen has an estimated $11 trillion market potential, according to Bank of America Securities and is expected to generate $2.5tn in direct revenues and $11tn of indirect infrastructure by 2050 as its production increases six-fold.
"We believe we are reaching the point of harnessing the element that comprises 90 per cent of the universe, effectively and economically,” the bank said in a recent report.
Falling costs of renewable energy and electrolysers used in green hydrogen production is one of the main catalysts for the increasingly bullish sentiment over the element.
The cost of electrolysers used in green hydrogen production has halved over the last five years and will fall to 60 to 90 per cent by the end of the decade, acceding to Haim Israel, equity strategist at Merrill Lynch. A global focus on decarbonisation and sustainability is also a big driver in its development.
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