Comment Hydrogen in Iceland (Score 2) 219
Iceland is currently underway of becoming the world's first hydrogen community. A fertilizer company has been making hydrogen since the 1950's and now the government has made a contract with Daimler-Benz that they make hydrogen powered busses for public transport. So other car manufacturers are working towards incorporating hydrogen powered engines. Also there's some talk of converting the fishing troller fleet to use hydrogen power. As oil is quite expensive here, cause of transport (we, f.eg. pay the same for the liter here as americans pay for the gallon) And a oil distributor (believe it or not) has jumped on the bandwagon, and is going to provide these hydrogen powered vehicles with hydrogen in their gasstations, and are also selling small electric generators (12v, one amper) that use hydrogen. Everything is in fact in order.. Except for storage of hydrogen, which I hear is somewhat problematic.
Iceland is the perfect place for this, as we have very clean ways of producing electricity in our hydroelectric powerplants. In relation to that, many government agencies have incorporated electric cars.
Its a futuristic society :-)
Anyway, I'm no authority in this field, I just repeat what I've read in newspapers/website. I have a couple of links but they're all in icelandic, but I do have one interresting picture:
http://www.islandia.is/vetni/Myndir/pem_fuelcell .G IF
Iceland is the perfect place for this, as we have very clean ways of producing electricity in our hydroelectric powerplants. In relation to that, many government agencies have incorporated electric cars.
Its a futuristic society
Anyway, I'm no authority in this field, I just repeat what I've read in newspapers/website. I have a couple of links but they're all in icelandic, but I do have one interresting picture:
http://www.islandia.is/vetni/Myndir/pem_fuelcel