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the hydrogen would need to be produced at larger facilities
and somehow transported to illing stations. It would not
be practical, however, for trucks to carry massive tanks of
hydrogen gas to illing stations, so another method would be
needed. The hydrogen gas could be sent through pipelines.
In Germany, there is a large facility that makes hydrogen
gas. The gas is then moved through a network of pipes that run
about 50 miles (80 kilometers). In the United States, there are
about 700 miles (1,125 kilometers) of hydrogen gas pipelines
already in place. They are found in just a few regions, mainly
where hydrogen
is being used in
chemical plants and
oil reineries in Illinois,
California, and along
the coast of the Gulf
of Mexico. This may
sound like plenty of
pipeline, but it is really
very little compared
to the more than one
million miles (1.6
million kilometers)
of pipeline that
transport natural gas.
A large storage tank for liquid
hydrogen.
