Came across this in the BBC.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/energy-tech-04zzk.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/archive/2208013.stm
Their ancestors the Vikings are better known for the way they pillaged and despoiled. But now Icelanders are offering to show the rest of the world how best to clean the planet up and protect the fragile resources of the earth.
As world leaders head for the earth summit in Johannesburg, Iceland is embarking on a radical plan to abolish the burning of fossil fuels altogether - by transforming itself into the world's first "hydrogen economy".
It aims to run all its transport and even its huge fishing fleet on hydrogen produced in Iceland itself.
Shirin Wheeler reported from Iceland.
Over the next 30 years, it aims to do away with polluting fossil fuels like petrol and diesel altogether and replace them with what could be the cleanest fuel on earth. These plans could reduce Iceland's greenhouse gas emissions by 50%.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/energy-tech-04zzk.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/archive/2208013.stm
Their ancestors the Vikings are better known for the way they pillaged and despoiled. But now Icelanders are offering to show the rest of the world how best to clean the planet up and protect the fragile resources of the earth.
As world leaders head for the earth summit in Johannesburg, Iceland is embarking on a radical plan to abolish the burning of fossil fuels altogether - by transforming itself into the world's first "hydrogen economy".
It aims to run all its transport and even its huge fishing fleet on hydrogen produced in Iceland itself.
Shirin Wheeler reported from Iceland.
Over the next 30 years, it aims to do away with polluting fossil fuels like petrol and diesel altogether and replace them with what could be the cleanest fuel on earth. These plans could reduce Iceland's greenhouse gas emissions by 50%.
