Hydrogen in remote areas

The Japanese island of Yakushima proves to be a good example of the possibilities to use remote areas as niche markets for the introduction of a hydrogen economy (Koen !). Like Iceland, Yakushima has a renewable energy source that exceeds local electricty demands. In Iceland this is geothermal energy and in the case Yakushima it is hydropower. Electricity cannot easily be stored and a transformation to hydrogen is one way of making use of this surplus. Read more at the BBC newssite