Ohio: Hydrogen fuel cell buses joining Stark Area Regional Transit Authority

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3. Stark College has a major fuel cell program.

There is a large public/private fuel cell research facility there in Canton, and they have a Fuel cell technical degree program. So having this bus program in the area makes sense. A bus like this has plenty of roof rack space for the high pressure hydrogen tanks too.

https://www.starkstate.edu/locations/fuel-cell-prototyping-center/

The big problem with this is still where does the pure Hydrogen come from to power the system. It is very energy intensive to manufacture pure hydrogen using any method, whether it is reforming from natural gas with steam, or splitting it from water molecules, in addition to the energy needed to compress and store it at the extreme pressures needed. (10,000 psi)