This is a video of a 1 megawatt Fuel Cell Power Plant at California State University, Northridge, in Los Angeles, CA. The power plant has a reformer that separates hydrogen from natural gas and then feeds the hydrogen into a fuel cell, generating electricity. The plant also recovers the heat generated and uses it for domestic heating on campus. In the future, some of the carbon emitted will be sequestered in a sub-tropical rainforest (Orchid Farm) that is under construction.

While at present this power plant still uses fossil fuels (the natural gas is needed in order to extract the hydrogen from it), in the future the hydrogen will be generated either from landfill gas, or else it will be electrolyzed using wind, solar, geothermal, wave or hydroelectric energy. What is most important and exciting about this plant is the fact that it is using fuel cells--touted to be the future of electricity generation--today, and they are working seamlessly on a large scale.There are no excuses, a clean pollution free world is at our finger tips.EGAT's PLAN: Asia-Pacific

No sign of a slowdown in Asia’s reliance on coal

Both Thailand and Malaysia have announced that they plan to increase their reliance on coal to generate electricity.

In Thailand, a new development plan that would see 18 new plants built between 2011 and 2015, with a combined capacity of 13-230 MW, will rely largely on coal and hydro, according to Nokhun Sithipong, deputy permanent secretary of the Energy Ministry. He said the plan did not prioritise gas fuelled stations because gas already fuels 70 per cent of Thailand’s power stations. And I bet there has not been a single public hearing regarding these coal plants.   

Excellent !!

Show some MP's how to pocket 20 billion baht from setting up a hydrogen power station and they'll be popping up all over the country.

Interesting topic....you know, in Australia, we just passed the 2020 rule last week.

This will mean tremendous opportunities for people in the Renewal energy field.

Just a matter of time before Thailand follow suit, I think.

Appreciate comments, I think Neo's right, gonna have to figure out a way for the MPs to get their cut, then renewable energy will take off.