{"id":417035,"date":"2021-05-27T09:36:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417035"},"modified":"2021-05-27T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T05:20:55","slug":"hydrogen-powered-trains-have-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hydrogen-powered-trains-have-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen-powered trains have arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all the buzz about hydrogen trucks and planes, railways provide the most immediate test case for the rollout of a clean-energy technology that has electrified policy makers and markets alike.<\/p>\n<p>Investors got very excited about the potential of hydrogen as a sustainable fuel last year, but have taken a breather in recent months\u2014as they have with other speculative technology themes. The fact remains that, for many industries, so-called green hydrogen produced using renewable power needs about a decade of scaling up and rising carbon prices to make it competitive. <\/p>\n<p>Yet that isn\u2019t the case for rail transport. Hydrogen-powered trains built by France\u2019s Alstom have already carried passengers over 110,000 miles on trial operations in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the buzz about hydrogen trucks and planes, railways provide the most immediate test case for the rollout of a clean-energy technology that has electrified policy makers and markets alike. Investors got very excited about the potential of hydrogen as a sustainable fuel last year, but have taken a breather in recent months\u2014as they have with other speculative technology themes. The fact remains that, for many industries, so-called green hydrogen produced using renewable power needs about a decade of scaling up and rising carbon prices to make it competitive. Yet that isn\u2019t the case for rail transport. Hydrogen-powered trains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}