WSJ: Tokyo Hopes to Make Hydrogen Power the Star of the 2020 Olympics
Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe pushes an initiative to clear the air
The Wall Street Journal | Mitsuru Obe | Sept. 11, 2015
TOKYO—Like Olympic villages of past years, Tokyo’s version in 2020 will feature new buildings to house athletes and buses to ferry people to competition venues. But if Tokyo’s governor has his way, it will all be powered by a new energy source: hydrogen.
Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe sees ‘de-motorization’ as the symbol of the 2020 Games. Photo: Eric Pfanner/The Wall Street Journal
“The first Tokyo Olympics, 50 years ago, left a bullet-train system as a legacy. I want to leave a hydrogen society as a legacy for the next Tokyo Olympics,” Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe said in an interview.
Transportation plans include at least 100 hydrogen-powered buses, mostly in and around the Olympic Village. Photo: Mitsuru Obe
Tokyo has said it plans to spend 40 billion yen ($330 million) through 2020 to encourage the development of technologies based on hydrogen, a gas capable of producing energy without exhaust other than water when mixed with oxygen in a fuel cell.
By the time the Summer Games kick off, Japanese officials hope to have thousands of hydrogen-powered cars on the road, at least 100 fuel-cell buses in operation, mostly in and around the Olympic Village, and a network of fueling stations supplying the gas. They also are considering building a pipeline to transport hydrogen across the Olympic Village, where industrial-size fuel cells would power buildings like the media center and the athletes’ dormitories.
Chiyoda Corp. has developed a technology that simplifies handling of hydrogen, making transportation of large quantities practical. Photo: Chiyoda Corp.
It is all part of a broader push by Japan to reduce its reliance on imported fossil fuels, as well as nuclear power,...snip
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