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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. Nifty! by klocwerk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So they're using a completely renuable resource, namely wave power, to separate sea water into O2 and (2) H2.

    This is a great idea for any region with significant ocean frontage. Unfortunately, it is only a great idea in such locations. We can't fuel the US gas glutton SUVs via this method, there just isn't enough ocean frontage for all the soccer-moms.

    Kudos to a truly self-powered island!

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