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Rolling down the track: Germany debuts the first hydrogen-powered passenger train service
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While many train lines continue to run on diesel, others are electrified with efforts underway around the world, in Australia, India, the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere, to generate the electricity to run the rail lines with renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power.
Germany is chugging ahead too, with the first fully hydrogen-powered passenger trains, which began running this week on a regional train line in Bremervörde, Lower Saxony.
The Coradia iLint hydrogen trains are built by French multinational company Alstom and are powered by hydrogen fuel cells that generate electrical energy propulsion.
The recipient of a 2022 Germain Sustainability Design Award, the Coradia iLint is emission-free. Alstom says the trains emit only water vapor (steam) and condensed water. And any heat generated is used for air conditioning.
On this regional German route, 14 hydrogen-powered Alstom trains will gradually replace 15 diesel-trains over the course of a year. Five trains began running this week. ............(more)
https://thepointsguy.com/news/germany-first-hydrogen-powered-passenger-trains/
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Rolling down the track: Germany debuts the first hydrogen-powered passenger train service (Original Post)
marmar
Aug 2022
OP
The trick is where did the hydrogen get produced? If it was from fossil fuels then
mitch96
Aug 2022
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The net benefit of using hydrogen fuel, mostly produced from natural gas, to the environment
Alexander Of Assyria
Aug 2022
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mitch96
(13,818 posts)1. The trick is where did the hydrogen get produced? If it was from fossil fuels then
this is just an excercise. If it's green hydrogen then we are talking about something here that will reduce green house gasses....
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Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)2. The net benefit of using hydrogen fuel, mostly produced from natural gas, to the environment
versus burning fossil fuels out the diesel smoke stack, is orders of magnitude better!
https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-fuel-basics
Trust the scientists!