UK's first hydrogen bus refuelling station opens in Aberdeen, Scotland
11 March 2015 news.stv.tv
The depot at Kittybrewster will provide fuel for a fleet of ten green buses which hit the streets this year. The £19m scheme has been backed by both the EU and the UK and Scottish Governments.
Aberdeen City Council leader Jenny Laing said: “As a leading energy city determined to anchor the renewables industry in the north east, the success of the Aberdeen Hydrogen Bus Project is a real coup.
Hydrogen bus: UK's first refuelling station opens in Aberdeen. Credit: Aberdeen City Council
"We not only have Europe's largest fleet of hydrogen fuel cell buses running on the streets of Aberdeen, but we also have the UK's first and largest hydrogen production and bus refuelling station.
"We have a very clear hydrogen strategy for the future and are on the cusp of realising our aspiration of becoming a world-leading city for low carbon technology, while maintaining our position as a leading world energy city...
Complete article: http://news.stv.tv/north/313481-first-hydrogen-bus-refuelling-station-in-uk-opens-in-aberdeen/
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Hydrogen buses on show for first time at All-Energy
Aberdeen City Council 21/05/14
The Aberdeen City Council-led project, which has backing from Europe, the UK Government and the Scottish Government, as well as a broad range of private sector partners, is the most high-profile of a range of projects designed to create a hydrogen economy in the city.
It will deliver a hydrogen infrastructure in Aberdeen in 2014. This will include the production of hydrogen from a 1MW electrolyser and establishing Scotland's first commercial scale hydrogen refuelling system, which will include hydrogen production through electrolysis, in partnership with BOC.
MORE: http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/CouncilNews/ci_cns/pr_hydrogen_buses_210514.asp
Japan, Germany, England and Scotland can see the benefits of Hydrogen. What's wrong with the U$?
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Those of us educated at university and in careers in the energy and science fields know this simple fact:
Hydrogen, like electricity, is an "Energy Carrier".
Hydrogen is NOT and energy source.
Hydrogen is like electricity in batteries: it might be created using fossil fuels or it might be created by renewable sources.
In most cases, hydrogen is used by the use of natural gas, and it's a very expensive process.
Further, electricity generated by the same source is a greener and more efficient enterprise than hydrogen gas generated by that same source.
It's a fact: hydrogen as a new source is just claptrap.
HOWEVER: Where there is a great deal of wind generation and little capacity for storage, hydrogen as a storage medium makes some sense.
But electric buses would make more sense under any circumstances.
Scotland has a considerable renewable energy component in their generation mix:
