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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. 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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