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Global Business: Hydrogen: The answer to Climate Change?

Hydrogen : The Answer to Climate Change?

18/01/2020 GMT

Hydrogen: The answer to Climate Change?

BBC World Service - Global Business, Hydrogen: The answer to Climate Change?

Once dubbed ‘fuel of the future’ but hydrogen powered transport is now a reality.

Hydrogen is a volatile gas with an image problem, but hydrogen evangelists think this could be the ‘magic molecule’ which will solve the world’s air pollution and cut carbon emissions dramatically.  Manuela Saragosa presents the final part of this Global Business special series on energy from Italy, where hydrogen has been pumped into the existing gas network.  Could a hydrogen boat replace the diesel belching cruise liners and ships along the canals of Venice? 
Produced by Nina Robinson 
Photo Credit: Nina Robinson/BBC

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