EVs yes, but there is no way they are going to waste ballast on a fishing boat to make room for enough batteries to power it, not when hydrogen storage is so dense. Every ton of batteries represents a ton of fish they can't catch.
If you can make hydrogen cheap enough, who cares if some of it leaks out? Ditto for the efficiency, if you can get abundant electricity virtually free. As for exporting electricity to Europe, Iceland is separated from the rest of Europe by ...what?...1,000 - 1,5000 miles of ocean? That's an awfully long extension cord. This isn't going to happen over night, I'm guessing they are planning on putting a lot of time and money into FC and other hydrogen research and they hope to have solutions to the major problems by the time they get the infrastructure in place. Just out of curiosity, how would they make methane? Last I checked you can't make that out of electricity and water (the two things they have an over abundance of in Iceland). >This would be good except that EV's powered by >the hydro would be a lot more eff than H2. >Then there is the little problem of storing it >as H2 seeps through steel! Pipelines are the only way >to use it now. Not good for transport, worse than an >extension cord!! ;-)) >To use it in an ICE usually melts the engine >after a while. Never heard of a high time H2 engine. >There best bet is to export the electricity to >europe or make methane from it. >The only EV they mention is a Fuel cell unit >with the same problems above besides, FC are >unattainable..
