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Iceland Moving to Hydrogen Economy

Posted by Hemos on from the powering-the-world dept.

LordSah writes "Related to the recent coverage of hydrogen, it seems that Iceland is making plans to dump oil in favor of hydrogen produced by the country's abundant supply of geothermic energy. Iceland is being used as an experiment to test out hydrogen fuel cell technology en masse. It has backing from DaimlerChrysler, Shell Oil and the European Union. Article here."

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  1. Mentions exporting by BlackHat · · Score: 2, Funny

    and that they had no way of doing so.

    It's hydrogen. Wrap it in a big bag and fly it to the buyer. How hard is that?? Yesh.

  2. I'm movin... by Raskolnk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cool. Hydrogen power, hottie blondes, and Bjork.

    I'm moving in!

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    1. Re:I'm movin... by xarfel · · Score: 2, Funny

      Abso-freakin-lutely

      Does U-haul have boats?

  3. Try reading the article first. by DeadMeat+(TM) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I suppose they park their cars over thermal vents overnight to power them?