«We now know that we can build more
hydrogen fueling stations if we examine the safety issues within a sound, technical framework that focuses on the real behaviors of hydrogen.»
Not exact matches
If station developers and others take a more performance - based approach, he said, more existing
fueling facilities will be able to integrate
hydrogen systems and support the developing
fuel - cell electric vehicle market.
Ignoring the billions (
if not trillions) of dollars needed to create a
station infrastructure, consider
hydrogen production complexity and cost, a process that still relies entirely on fossil
fuels.
Of the Honda Clarity variants, the
Fuel Cell is California - only and makes sense
if you're in one of the areas with
hydrogen fueling: LA / Orange County and San Francisco with two
stations in between, plus San Diego and Sacramento.
If privately - owned
fuel cell vehicles were to be capable of being readily refueled, this would require reformers (equipment capable of reforming, say, natural gas into
hydrogen) to be located at filling
stations, and would also require natural gas to be available there as a
hydrogen feed - stock.
If the oil companies don't get the
hydrogen fueling stations built because they want to keep us addicted to oil, then companies like Wal Mart and car dealerships will start building
hydrogen stations.
If the
hydrogen and the
fuel cells are cheap enough, the
hydrogen stations will get built.
As for solutions
if CO2 is a big problem: I think we should just replace coal - fired power
stations with nuclear, and then shift terrestrial transportation first to natural gas and then
hydrogen, leaving the fossil
fuels for air - travel.