Many people are aware of and have heard about how Iceland has adopted as a national
goal to become one of the first hydrogen powered nations in the world using geothermal and hydroelectric sources to produce hydrogen to fuel their country. The objective is to replace costly foreign petroleum with clean burning and locally produced hydrogen to run vehicles and even their fishing boats.
Hydrogen can be produced anywhere there is electricity and water using electrolysis. (Basically, running a low voltage current through water under certain conditions. This breaks the H20 water molecule down into free oxygen and hydrogen). Canada has been a world leader in this technology since the late 1940’s when the Stuart Energy Ltd. installed large electrolytic converters at Niagara Falls. The Stuart Energy corporation has now been merged into the Hydrogenics Corporation and is still a Canadian company.
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Submitted by acrobat on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 00:17.
