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Hydrogen Fuel Station in Iceland
klang points to this blurb about Iceland opening a hydrogen refueling facility. While it isn't, as the blurb states, the world's first hydrogen station, it is notable because it produces the hydrogen onsite with electricity from geothermal energy and electrolysis, making it an almost perfectly clean energy source.
I don't understand why creating water instead of carbon-monoxide is better for the environment. If we suddenly replaced all fossil fuel engines with hydrogen engines, we'd have the same problem: excess waste.
How many tons of waste do we humans send into the air every year? Do we think that equivalent amount of water is better? Instead of air pollution and all of the problems associated with it, we'd have to worry about the oceans being diluted, excess humidity, or some damn thing we can't think of.
I actually am not of the opinion that it's as bad as people think it is anyway. So talking about changing from one form of waste to another is just an unnecessary expense.
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And will they let you fill your balloon or are they going to insist on wasting it on a car?
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You cannot honestly label water as "waste". For as you and I are 90+% waste then ;)
Some would argue that to be a higher number. I personally find most people I interact with can be replaced by a small shell script, and thereby be a 100% waste (from my frame of reference).
I'm more interested in technology to remove stupid people from driving on freeway systems. Smart drive systems can save more resources because there will be less traffic jams. They aren't mutually exclusive, and I'd like to see both being developed, but that's where my interests lie.
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This process seems to use alot of Dihydrogen Monoxide.
You think more people would be concerned.
This means that USA in a few years time will declare war to Iceland?
The only thing that scares me about hydrogen is the explosion part.... Car wrecks could definitely get a lot scarier.
Yeah, good thing we're running on non-flammable, non-explosive gasoline right now.
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Why isn't it a more explored area?
The Hydrogen Industry have been suppressing Nitrogen research for years. The Bush administration and cohorts in Congress are bought and paid for by the Hydrogen lobby. The DMIE at the University of Iceland discovered a design for a Nitrogen fuel injector that had an efficiency equivalent to that of an automobile getting 450KM per liter. Obviously such a design would threaten the profitability of Hydrogen bases systems, so the design has been withheld and the researchers have been forced to sign NDAs.
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