Where Clean Power Is Cool

By running cars, buses, trucks, and ships on hydrogen, a country aims to be entirely oil-free by 2050.

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January 13, 2005, 10:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"With almost unlimited geothermal energy sizzling beneath its surface, Iceland has an official goal of making the country oil-free by shifting cars, buses, trucks and ships over to hydrogen by about 2050... About 70 percent of Iceland's energy needs, from home heating to electricity for aluminum smelters, are already met by geothermal or hydro-electric power. Only the transport sector is still hooked on polluting oil and gas."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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