Future: Proof

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For those people who care about the environment you may get a bit frustrated that all these technologies of the future for greener transportation seem to stay there: in the future. Your local Ford dealership is not full of electric cars, or solar cars, or sugar-cane fueled cars and so on.
However, running on route RV1 (one of the most scenic and tourist-orientated routes in London) are three fuel-cell buses. This is hard proof that the technology works. These take in hydrogen from roof-mounted tanks, run it through a fuel cell where it combines with oxygen (and creates an electrical current to drive the bus' motors) and then releases nothing other than water vapour.
The bus is more comfortable and quieter and seems to perform no worse than its hydrocarbon-chain-burning friends.

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inglian says:

About time. I think there just isn't the political will, at government level, to make such use of alternative technologies more widespread.
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