Fukushima – ground zero of Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster that followed a devastating earthquake and tsunami – could become a wind-harnessing hydrogen production centre.
Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe hopes the area can produce massive amounts of hydrogen for use in Tokyo during the Olympics in four years’ time.
Abe has been aggressively promoting hydrogen as a core power source and hydrogen fuel cells as key to the country’s automotive future. Fukushima will also be used to develop more potential power-generating ides using wind.Read the full story here.
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