Engineering360: "California University Buys All-Electric Buses"

"The hydrogen electric bus doesn’t emit carbon—neither does the battery electric bus, says engineering professor Scott Samuelsen, who heads the National Fuel Cell Research Center. He says that while the production of hydrogen power and plug-in electricity does generate carbon dioxide, technology advances may make those energy sources carbon-free in the next few years."

Its amazing the number of allegedly intelligent people that apparently won't assimilate the simple fact that all they are doing is moving the pollution from vehicles/buildings to power generation sites, fine if you have plenty of spare baseload nuclear generation capacity for overnight recharging, not if your relying on coal and oil, or more likely perhaps they are simply being disingenuous?

It'll also be creating more pollution anyway given the often diesel fueled energy required to mine, ship, refine, ship, package, ship, build battery pack, ship and install before use, then removal, ship, dismantle, re-refine any economically recoverable content, ship and dispose to land-fill non-recoverables from the battery at the end of its life.

Universities and their 'green' agendas often fall short in reality, window dressing to hide in plain sight these shortfalls is common place, and there's none so blind as those that will not see...