[ba-unrev-talk] Hydrogen Puts Iceland on Road to Oil-Free Future
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20020530/sc_nm/autos_environment_iceland_dc_2 (01)
Converting all the country's 180,000 vehicles and
2,500 fishing trawlers to hydrogen won't happen
overnight -- Iceland is giving itself 30-40 years to
kick the oil habit completely -- but the launch of the
energy plan a year ago was a watershed. (02)
The scheme is backed by DaimlerChrysler, which
will build the first buses, together with energy giant
Royal Dutch Shell and Norwegian industrial group
Norsk Hydro (03)
All three firms have invested in a new company
called Icelandic New Energy and plan to use Iceland
as a test-bed for a technology that some scientists
think holds the key to mankind's energy needs after the
oil runs out. (04)
"Thirty years ago people said it was nonsense,"
Arnason told Reuters. "But slowly people have come
round to the idea -- especially with the involvement of
big companies. Now, all around the world, people are
starting to look at hydrogen." (05)
Discussed here: (06)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/30/199229&mode=thread&tid=134&threshold=2 (07)
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