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Skúlason 5 (1:04)
Topic(s): Government / Hydrogen / Iceland
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Well, when we started our path in Iceland, the government of
Iceland wanted to create a hydrogen economy. And we realized
early on that the only way to understand all the implications
of a hydrogen economy would be to build a commercial station.
Up to 2003, everybody had built stations in, like, industrial
complexes, in bus depots, and etc., not fully accessible to
the public. The public was asking, "is the hydrogen dangerous?
Is that why you're building it the industrial areas and etc.?"
So we realized we want just to take the hydrogen filling
station directly out to the public and we asked the developers
of those technologies, "Is there any issues with having a
commercial station?" And there were none.
We applied to set up a commercial station, took the
application process; in Iceland, took up to 6 weeks for the
first one in the world and then we just built it. We take
people up in truckloads to see the station, students stop
there, a lot of PR stops there, a lot of important presidents
and stuff just to understand "ok, this is ready now, we can
actually have a station out there now."
