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Hydrogen Fuel Station in Iceland

Posted by michael on from the should-be-greenland-ha-ha-ha dept.

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.

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  1. You haven't been, obviously. by Absurd+Being · · Score: 5, Informative

    Burning hydrogen creates about an electron volt of energy per molecule or so. FUSING hydrogen into helium, what a hydrogen bomb does, generates several MILLION electron volts of energy per atom. So unless you have a hydrogen tank for your car that is at EXTREMELY high pressure, you don't have a hydrogen bomb. There are dozens of chemicals that generate far more explosion energy for a chemical bomb, such as, say, GASOLINE!

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  2. Re:All this talk... by Dutchmaan · · Score: 5, Informative
    that Hydrogen has to come from somewhere, after all.

    IMHO, Algae is the most likely source of renewable hydrogen in the foreseable future.

    http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,5445 6,00.html