Hydrogen fuel cell busses

VanHool the famous bus producer from Koningshooikt in Belgium has announced to produce 22 more busses for the european market powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, in order to comply with the zero-emmision cities goal from the European Union.
VanHool has proofed that hydrogen can work as a relaible and safe alternative for other fuels such as diesel, but even CNG an LNG.
However some remarks have to be made, where will the hydrogen come from? Presumably the will take the hydrogen from a Solvay site, where it is produced as a byproduct, but this is not confirmed. If hydrogen is to be produced from for example methane, we are as far to a clean future as we are now.
Hydrogen can be a clean fuel and can even be the fuel of the future, since when produced by windmills there is almost no polution, except for the impact of the production of the windmill.

http://www.egear.be/van-hool-waterstofbussen/
http://www.madeinmechelen.be/nieuws/van-hool-levert-bussen-op-waterstof-aan-de-lijn/

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  1. i also believe that hydrogen fuel is the ideal fuel in our future. after using it, it will only produce H2O in the end. In china, government also attach great importance to hydrogen. The new energy source will be the trend.

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