The athletes village for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo will be a futuristic "hydrogen town" where electricity and hot water are generated from the abundant element, a local newspaper reported Monday.
Planners at the Tokyo metropolitan government want to use the opportunity of hosting the summer sporting festival as a boost to so-called "clean" energy, the Yomiuri Shimbun said.
The city aims to build hydrogen stations and pipelines that will send the gas to accommodation units, ..
The athletes village for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo will be a futuristic "hydrogen town" where electricity and hot water are generated from the abundant element, a local newspaper reported Monday.
Planners at the Tokyo metropolitan government want to use the opportunity of hosting the summer sporting festival as a boost to so-called "clean" energy, the Yomiuri Shimbun said.
The city aims to build hydrogen stations and pipelines that will send the gas to accommodation units, ..
The athletes' village for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo
will be a futuristic "hydrogen town" where electricity and hot water
are generated from the abundant element, according to the AFP. Planners at the Tokyo metropolitan government "want to
use the opportunity of hosting the summer sporting festival as a boost
to so-called 'clean' energy." The city "aims to build hydrogen
stations and pipelines that will send the gas to accommodation units,
athletic facilities and restaurants." Buses ferrying athletes around "would also be fuelled by hydrogen, and refilled from special stations." The report "comes after Toyota Motor last month rolled out the world's first mass-market fuel-cell car in Japan." The athletes' village "will be located in Tokyo's Harumi waterfront area." Once the Games are over, "it will be converted into a town" with a population of about 10,000 (
AFP, 1/5).
