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World's First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Island

Posted by Hemos on from the making-things-work dept.

Albanach writes "According to this article in The Herald Newspaper, the island of Islay, on the West coast of Scotland is set to become the world's first Hydrogen Fuel Cell powered island. Scientests at Napier University wish to use the existing Wave Power Station to treat sea water and store the resulting hydrogen in fuel cells. The first plan is to power a building, moving on to powering the entire island in a decade."

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  1. Minor confusion by interiot · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Powered Island" != "mobile island which moves because of Hydrogen Power".

  2. I didn't need another reason... by Dambiel · · Score: 5, Funny

    but this is just one more reason to drink scotch from Islay.

    It's not only delicious, but environmentally friendly too!

  3. The headline looked like a typo... by Disevidence · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can just see it now, a little island scooting around the atlantic using sea water as fuel. Hehe.

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  4. All this time I thought they were whisky-powered by Delirium+Tremens · · Score: 3, Funny

    Else, why would they have so many distilleries on that little piece of land?

  5. *evil cackle* by JanusFury · · Score: 3, Funny

    Once the hydrogen fuel cell is complete, my plan for world domination will be one step closer to completion! I must only get my secret island stronghold fully operational, then kick off all the islanders, and I can blackmail the United Nations for... 5 BILLION DOLLARS! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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  6. Re:This is just great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think you should get something for that cough.

  7. Re:seems a very expensive way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hydrogen is hardly the way to store 'pure energy' (whatever THAT is). It's no more feasible than batteries, except batteries don't get you government grants and hot lab assistants to exploit.

  8. Re:Not really a "long term" energy source though. by jackal! · · Score: 5, Funny

    A similar problem exists with solar energy. If we become too dependant on solar, we'll be totally up a creek in just under 5 billion years.

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  9. Islay's Second Product? by stereoroid · · Score: 3, Funny
    Let's see:
    1. Islay will be producing oxygen as a byproduct of the hydrogen generation;
    2. Islay is also famous for its whisky.

    So, will we be seeing oygenated whiskey as Islay's Next Big Thing? It could conceivably slow or prevent the loss of brain cells. It's a pity they're not going to produce Helium (squeak)...

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  10. Re:Population? by Observer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Plus a few hundred thousand who are there in spirit.

  11. Re:Not really a "long term" energy source though. by Adrenochrome · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hell, every time we convert energy from one form to another, we're contributing to the heat death of the universe. (See also, the simplified laws of thermodynamics: You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't quit.) Earth, schmerth. We're talking about the entire universe here. See what your evil SUV is doing! What kind of universe are we leaving to our grand(2.35x10^14)children! -- If enviromentalists *really* cared about the environment, they'd kill themselves.

  12. Re:Scary Stuff! by Billy+the+Mountain · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard NASA already has a solution to this, they're going to attach solar powered wings to the moon. Moon Wings!

    BTM

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