“Hydrogen Highway” Coming to Morgantown
A hydrogen “filling station” is planned for Morgantown as part of a federal research program.
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia University and Morgantown are poised to become the next stop on the “Hydrogen Highway.”
They will become home to a hydrogen fueling station, similar to one commissioned earlier this week at Charleston’s Chuck Yeager Airport. The station will create and dispense hydrogen. The new “Mountaineer Station” will house the hydrogen stop-off, once it’s completed.
Supporters say the effects of this research will reach far beyond West Virginia.
“There’s no carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere,” says Curt Peterson, the Vice President of Research and Economic Development at WVU. “So essentially, what you’re doing is taking away concern for adding CO2 into the atmosphere, global warming, climate change.”
The use of coal in converting hydrogen will also be part of the study. Depending on its success, the “hydrogen highway” might even extend further in the future, with more fueling stations stretching north.
Story by Stacy Moniot
