11-25-2006, 06:13 AM
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Fuel speed ahead - Philadelphia Daily News
Hydrogen got its start as a fuel for space travel at NASA. Now the U.S. government is spending more than $1 billion to see whether hydrogen can be adapted for transportation on planet Earth.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc. opened Pennsylvania's first hydrogen-filling station near Beaver Stadium on the Pennsylvania State University main campus this month.
The experimental station - one of 53 nationwide, according to the National Hydrogen Association - cost $10.5 million and is part of a national effort to break what some politicians call the nation's addiction to foreign oil by developing hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles.
Fuel cells function like batteries by converting hydrogen and air into electricity, and Air Products, one of the world's largest producers of hydrogen for industry, is aiming to play a big role if the technology takes off.
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