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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by nrclark
What about Hydrogen, is there a future there?
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Iceland seems to think so.
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Their ancestors the Vikings are better known for the way they pillaged and despoiled. But now Icelanders are offering to show the rest of the world how best to clean the planet up and protect the fragile resources of the earth.
As world leaders head for the earth summit in Johannesburg, Iceland is embarking on a radical plan to abolish the burning of fossil fuels altogether - by transforming itself into the world's first "hydrogen economy".
It aims to run all its transport and even its huge fishing fleet on hydrogen produced in Iceland itself.
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and are already using Hydrogen powered buses:
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H2/FC CAR MANUFACTURES
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Busses Arrive in Iceland
By PEB
Oct 1, 2003, 16:25
The hydrogen fuel cell busses have arrived in Reykjavik, Iceland. At 10 o'clock the 30th of September a little happy crowd of people were to be found at the cargo-harbour in Reykjavik, welcoming two out of three H2 FC buses from EvoBus (DaimlerChrysler).
Hjalmar Arnason MP commented that 5 years had passed since this idea was first mentioned between an Icelandic delegation and DaimlerChrysler. Until the 5th of October the buses will be used to train the conductors and go through scrutinising checkups and installations.
The busses have been transported across half of the Atlantic Ocean. They will be tested for the first time on the 5th of October, when the public of Reykjavik is invited to have a short ride between the hydrogen fuel station and the Straeto headquarters (the municipal bus company).
The busses will eventually go into normal operation and will refuel at the Shell hydrogen station located in Vesturlandsvegur in the east of the Icelandic capital.
The Reykjavik hydrogen station incorporates machinery, supplied by Norsk Hydro, to produce hydrogen from water by electrolysis. All of Iceland’s electricity is generated from hydroelectric and geothermal sources
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