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| | | Costing the Earth tells stories which touch all our lives, looking at man's effect on the environment and at how the environment reacts. It questions accepted truths, challenges the people in charge and reports on progress towards improving the world we live in. | | | | | LISTEN AGAIN 30 min | | | |
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'Being the first to bring challenging scientific theories to a wider audience is something Costing The Earth relishes.'
Tom Feilden
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The Hydrogen Bubble
In January this year President Bush promised that the children of America could look forward to driving cars powered by hydrogen gas. He pledged billions of dollars for research into what’s being touted as the miracle fuel- a limitless form of energy which causes no pollution.
In this week’s ‘Costing the Earth’ Tom Feilden finds out how close to reality the hydrogen dream really is. In Woking he takes a dip in a leisure centre pool heated by hydrogen. In Hackney he enjoys a ride in London’s first hydrogen bus and in Middlesborough he hears of ambitious plans to turn Teeside into a hot-bed of energy research with freshly piped hydrogen on tap in every home and office.
But do we really understand the effects of all this gas on the atmosphere? Could all these hydrogen-powered homes and cars actually cause even more damage to the environment than the coal and petrol burning devices they’re supposed to replace? Tom Feilden gazes into our hydrogen-fuelled future in the last in the present series of 'Costing the Earth. | | |
RELATED LINKS
Powering Teeside with Hydrogen
Hydrogen Buses for London
Woking's Hydrogen-powered pool
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