In Plan B, the original, I talk
about a hydrogen fuel - cell automotive - energy economy.
Because George W. Bush, a man who doesn't know squat
about hydrogen fuel cells and the challenges of a hydrogen economy, makes a speech that — once again — says hydrogen - powered vehicles are an attainable goal.
Go to any sanctum of GWA worship (like Grist.org) and say something like «how
about hydrogen fuel cells»?
It's one of several auto show announcements this week in Los Angeles and Tokyo
about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles being readied for production.
If you've got that part down, and you're not overly concerned
about hydrogen fuel safety (you shouldn't be), this Toyota is certainly a car worth considering.
AMES, Iowa — Seventeen middle school team representatives from 11 schools around Iowa converged on the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory on Feb. 22 to learn
about hydrogen fuel - cell technology and to build hydrogen fuel - cell model cars.
Not exact matches
EM: Just think
about the little
fuel tank that has the
hydrogen in it, that is 2 millimetre across,
about the size of a peppercorn.
Honda established a division late last year to develop electric vehicles (EVs) as part of its long - held goal for lower - emission gasoline hybrids, plug - in hybrids, EVs and
hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to account for two - thirds of its line - up by 2030, from
about 5 percent now.
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Hydrogen and fuel cell basics from the Department of Energy Information about hydro
Hydrogen and
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about hydrogenhydrogen cars
Hydrogen is just
about the cleanest
fuel around; burn it and the only exhaust is water.
Conventional approaches to compact
hydrogen storage — compressing the gas to up to 10,000 pounds per square inch (psi) or cooling it down to cryogenic temperatures so that it liquefies (around 252 degrees Celsius)-- can attain only
about half the energy density needed to fit enough
fuel inside something the size of a gas tank.
The program is an opportunity for consumers in California, New York State and the District of Columbia to test
about 100 of the company's Equinox sports utility vehicles powered by
hydrogen fuel cells.
About a dozen test drivers fill up their
fuel cell cars each week at the Shell
hydrogen - refueling station in White Plains, N.Y..
These beasts,
about 100 times the mass of the sun, were so large and energetic that they burned all their
hydrogen fuel in just a few million years.
After all, the chemical engineer wanted to make
fuel from plants for the
hydrogen economy that was supposed to boom
about now.
Nor is the Chevrolet Equinox the first
fuel cell vehicle General Motors (GM) has ever produced: The 1966 Electrovan, an unwieldy and prohibitively expensive
fuel cell van that never made it out of the lab, was the first of
about 40 or so
hydrogen -
fueled vehicles that have been built by the U.S. carmaker.
The moisture - absorbing photocatalytic paint can be applied to any surface such as building facades, introducing the novel capability of generating
hydrogen fuel just
about anywhere.
For each type of biofuel, nearly all the
fuel was converted and
about 70 percent of the
hydrogen bound up in the
fuel molecules was given off as gas, the researchers report in this week's Science.
«In this article, we're talking
about hydrogen oxidation, which is for
fuel cells.
Currently,
about 95 percent of
hydrogen production worldwide comes from converting fossil
fuels such as natural gas into
hydrogen — a process that releases large quantities of carbon dioxide into the air, said Maher El - Kady, a UCLA postdoctoral researcher and a co-author of the research.
He says prototypes of his company's
hydrogen peroxide -
fuelled rocket, Black Armadillo, have now crashed «spectacularly» four times out of a total of
about 35 tests.
Fusion is more efficient than fission, but even if we enclose the sun in a perfect Dyson sphere, we'll still never convert more than
about 0.08 percent of the sun's mass to energy we can use, because once the sun has consumed
about a tenth of its
hydrogen fuel, it will end its lifetime as a normal star, expand into a red giant, and begin to die.
It's
about storing energy in
hydrogen as a
fuel.
A large of proportion of energy research aims to establish and optimize renewable sources such as photovoltaics,
hydrogen fuel cells, biomass, and wind power, but energy research can also be
about improving old technologies.
The carmaker realized that if its vision of battery - powered electric vehicles gaining mass appeal in tandem with
fuel cell electrics was to come true, it needed to so something
about the lack of
hydrogen infrastructure.
Electricity produced by a
fuel cell by combining
hydrogen and oxygen powered an electric motor to turn the two - seat test glider's propeller and enabled it to fly for roughly 20 minutes at 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) at
about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level.
Unlike battery - powered electric vehicles,
fuel - cell powered ones have a long cruising range — up to 650 kilometers per tank (the
fuel is usually compressed
hydrogen gas); a
hydrogen fuel refill only takes
about three minutes.
And yet on 15 March the building exploded, apparently
fueled by
hydrogen, leaving nuclear engineers to speculate
about the source.
Hydrogen, being an extremely light element, makes up only about 5 % of the weight of a rocket fuel mixture, and can thus be imported from Earth; heavy insulation and some gelling of the mixture with methane (as the hydrogen will not be fed directly into an engine) will reduce in - space boil - off to negligible
Hydrogen, being an extremely light element, makes up only
about 5 % of the weight of a rocket
fuel mixture, and can thus be imported from Earth; heavy insulation and some gelling of the mixture with methane (as the
hydrogen will not be fed directly into an engine) will reduce in - space boil - off to negligible
hydrogen will not be fed directly into an engine) will reduce in - space boil - off to negligible levels.
Currently, fertilizer is made using natural gas (steam reforming of methane to generate
hydrogen to feed into the Haber process)-- but with the new advances (http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/07/researchers-at.html), it should be possible to generate that
hydrogen directly from water using sunlight; feed the
hydrogen into the Haber process (energy expensive, true, but doable), and then you have your ammonia, convert half of that to nitrate, and there you have your ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which currently accounts for
about 1/2 of all agricultral fossil
fuel use.
To celebrate, here are a few things you might not know
about hydrogen and
fuel cells.
There are only
about 50
hydrogen fueling stations in the United States, and just a handful of those dispense liquid
hydrogen.
When asked
about hydrogen as a practical
fuel, Bereisa told us, «There's a lot more
hydrogen production around than people think, so if the country wanted to move to a
hydrogen economy, it could get done pretty quickly and with a lot less investment than we're already seeing in the current stimulus package.»
This is good news for all the futurists who have been telling us
about a forthcoming change from nasty, old carbon - based fossil
fuels to an energy economy based on clean - burning
hydrogen.
Few days ago we were talk
about the first
about that Hyundai delivers first 15
Hydrogen ix35
Fuel Cell model and it...
Toyota has released more details
about the 2015 FCV - R
hydrogen fuel cell production car and announced that the development process is right on track.]
Honda established a division late last year to develop electric vehicles (EVs) as part of its long - held goal for lower - emission gasoline hybrids, plug - in hybrids, EVs and
hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to account for two - thirds of its line - up by 2030, from
about 5 percent now.
There have been rumors
about BMW signing a partnership for batteries and parts with Tesla Motors and even the possibility of a
hydrogen -
fueled i5, but what we do know for a fact is that the Germans are working on a very efficient hybrid drivetrain that goes by the name Power eDrive.
Chicago area drivers now have reason to be especially excited
about the potential for vehicles that use
fuel cells, since Honda and GM have recently announced a partnership to co-develop next - generation
fuel cell and
hydrogen - storage technologies by 2020.
While electric vehicles have been the darlings of the zero - emissions car market,
hydrogen - powered
fuel cell vehicles are
about to challenge them.
Car manufacturers showed off new
hydrogen fuel cell - powered vehicles, more sophisticated autonomous driving features, and at least one dog - centric vehicle at this year's New York Auto Show, but what
about the screens that we at The Verge love?
Speaking
about CO2 emissions, John Mendel, Executive Vice President of American Honda Motor Co, stated that «
hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are a zero emissions technology that Honda believes in, and has worked to advance for more than 20 years.
About the Honda Clarity
Fuel Cell Honda customers leasing the new Clarity Fuel Cell will enjoy all the benefits of driving the most advanced zero - emissions vehicle on the road today, including its ultra-low carbon footprint, comfortable seating for five, and $ 15,000 worth of hydrogen f
Fuel Cell Honda customers leasing the new Clarity
Fuel Cell will enjoy all the benefits of driving the most advanced zero - emissions vehicle on the road today, including its ultra-low carbon footprint, comfortable seating for five, and $ 15,000 worth of hydrogen f
Fuel Cell will enjoy all the benefits of driving the most advanced zero - emissions vehicle on the road today, including its ultra-low carbon footprint, comfortable seating for five, and $ 15,000 worth of
hydrogen fuelfuel.
Or how
about this Mercedes - Benz GLC F - CELL with ultra-compact
hydrogen fuel - cell and battery technology.
2014 Los Angeles Auto Show press days have just
about wrapped up, and this has been the year of the compact crossover, with a smattering of
hydrogen fuel cells just to keep up green appearances.
I suspect that we will be hearing a lot more
about hydrogen cars too; the fossil
fuel companies might well fund a fake «
hydrogen economy» because the cheapest
hydrogen is made by steam reforming of natural gas; people think that this is somehow better than just running a car on CNG.
I read
about a miniature
fuel cell with
Hydrogen cannister for running your laptop.
Currently, fertilizer is made using natural gas (steam reforming of methane to generate
hydrogen to feed into the Haber process)-- but with the new advances (/ / www.greencarcongress.com/2008/07/researchers-at.html), it should be possible to generate that
hydrogen directly from water using sunlight; feed the
hydrogen into the Haber process (energy expensive, true, but doable), and then you have your ammonia, convert half of that to nitrate, and there you have your ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which currently accounts for
about 1/2 of all agricultral fossil
fuel use.
hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, such as the Mercedes F - Cell, scheduled to be introduced
about 2014; and
«I think we need to think hard
about making the automobile dramatically simpler with
hydrogen and
fuel cells,» Burns told Reuters, noting that a
fuel - cell propulsion system had one - tenth as many moving parts as an internal combustion engine.