Germany, Country With a Most Environmentally Train In The World. The Only Waste They Produce Is Water.

[franco + 96]

Germany's launching the most environmentally friendly train in the world  They are powered hydrogen and oxygen.They can travel 1000 kilometers on a single tank at speeds 140 km/h. They are German's trains. 

[Pavel + 384]

This tech has been around since the 90's. Glad its finally being used for trains. Congrats. Ger.

[damirUSBiH + 327]

7 minutes ago, franco said:

 They are powered hydrogen and oxygen....

How environmentally friendly is the process of producing the hydrogen?

[Petar + 76]

What about the effect on the environment caused by the factories that produce the oxygen and hydrogen? It's not so environmentally like hey said.

[franco + 96]

So negative... Make your Friday, guys. Happy Friday both of you.

[ActionXJackson + 3]

On 9.3.2018 at 5:28 PM, Petar said:

What about the effect on the environment caused by the factories that produce the oxygen and hydrogen? It's not so environmentally like hey said.

This is the train:

http://www.alstom.com/de/products-services/product-catalogue/rail-systems/trains/products/coradia-ilint-regional-train-/

 

According to the following article(it´s in german), Alstom gets the hydrogen from chemical plants which creates hydrogen as a waste product(They simply burnt it).

https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article158262466/Erster-Wasserstoff-Zug-der-Welt-faehrt-in-Deutschland.html

 

By the way hydrogen can be produced environment friendly using the power-to-gas technology(Electrolysis) in combination with wind and solar power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas

https://www.greenpeace-energy.de/fileadmin/_processed_/6/0/csm_Das_passiert_im_Elektrolyseur_b300af2429.jpg

There are already some smaller projects in Europe( as far as I know mainly in Germany and Denmark) which produce so called windgas. When used in larger scale it could be the key to solve the main problem of the german Energiewende: the storability of energy. Wind and solar energy converted into gas could be stored. Germany has a lot of gas storage and the pipeline system itself is a huge storage but on the downside there are a lot of energy conversion losses.