Germany unveils world’s first zero-emissions hydrogen-powered passenger train | Inhabitat - Green Design,...

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Germany unveils world’s first zero-emissions hydrogen-powered passenger train | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

'French company Alstom unveiled the first-ever passenger train powered completely by hydrogen at this week’s Berlin InnoTrans trade show. The hydrogen train or “hydrail” will be put into service on Germany’s Buxtehude-Bremervörde-Bremerhaven-Cuxhaven line in Lower Saxony by December 2017. After two years in development, the “Coradia iLint” train offers a zero-emissions alternative to Germany’s existing fleet of diesel trains, thanks to a roof-mounted tank of hydrogen fuel.'

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  1. Morten LyngeSeptember 23, 2016 at 2:04 PM

    Where does the hydrogen it use originate?
    If it is like most, it comes from breaking down fossil fuel, or from breaking down water burning fossil fuel. If that is the case (as I highly suspect), it is not zero-emissions...

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  2. Morten LyngeSeptember 23, 2016 at 5:59 PM

    Yes, but the question is how it is extracted...
    If done from solar power for example, all well and good (apart from what CO2 was released producing the solar cells), but if from broken down from water it is more likely it is done by electricity produced by burning fossil fuel, probably natural gas.

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  3. Seshagiri RaoJanuary 10, 2017 at 10:44 AM

    nices

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