The first hydrogen city of the world is Danish+

Remember the movie Peter Weir’s “Mosquito Coast”? Yes, it wasn’t the best movie featuring Harrison Ford, but besides this, the story showed an inventor who decided to retire far away from the “Society of humans” and built a shelter for him and his family. Unfortunately for him, he missed his shot, too bad, the inventor would be delighted to learn that the H2PIA project is expected to start soon.

What is “H2SDFGGD-thing” exactly? H2PIA is a Danish collaborative urbanism project. HIRC agency came up with the concept, Metopos drew the plans, H2Logic came with its hydrogen technology expertise, How2Live developed the whole thing, and DR added a vision to this. All of them ambition to create the first all-hydrogen city ever existed in the world.

To be accurate, their area only shows 3 distinct kinds of buildings:

• The public facilities. In charge of producing, storing, and distributing hydrogen and energy. So far, little details have been disclosed on the techniques. All we know is that they will rely on the hydrogen fuel cells to produce both heat and electricity.

• The shared buildings. Imagine these places as the living room of your house. A multi-functional area where you can pretty much do everything, including having sex, we supposed.

• The villas. Available in three flavors: “plugged” for the younger residents, plugged to the power plant they mean; “unplugged” for free rider residents who want a 100% autonomy from everything; and hybrid, which get their energy from the power grid as plugged villas, but do produce and supply the power network if they have plenty of energy.

Even if this sounds like a little utopia, the group is nothing but very serious. All members are prepared to the failure. But who cares, it’s an experiment. Every participant, from the creators to collaborating public and private sector companies, will learn from this kind of bold but useful projects. “Rendez-vous” somewhere in Denmark when H2PIA will open its city gates.