Sentences with phrase «of hydrogen infrastructure»

Availability of Hydrogen Infrastructure 14.7.

Once lauded as the future of clean transportation and energy storage in a variety of other applications, hydrogen - based fuel cell systems have a great many barriers to adoption, one of which is lack of hydrogen infrastructure, and the other is the need to develop hydrogen production sources that aren't fossil fuel - based or that require more energy to produce than can be released in the fuel cell.

Honda's Clarity Fuel Cell will go on sale in California (one of, if not the only state with any semblance of a hydrogen infrastructure) later in 2016.

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.

But he thinks his approach will help other pieces of the hydrogen infrastructure fall into place.

Scaling up: a slow - moving process Deployment of hydrogen infrastructure to date has been slow and remains the most critical barrier to widespread adoption of FCVs.

Not exact matches

Measures to support the uptake of alternative fuelled vehicles by improving the country's network of charging and hydrogen refuelling infrastructure have been set out in the Queen's Speech

He says, «Establishing a hydrogen infrastructure depends on an unpredictable mix of technological innovation, consumer acceptance, and government incentives.»

Enhancing the availability of CNG cars could also bring natural gas to more fueling stations, which could be converted to hydrogen on - site and help overcome FCEV's infrastructure speed bump.

To be sure, many alternative energy buffs remain skeptical of the long - touted hydrogen economy, which would presumably require a huge (and politically problematic) investment in new infrastructure.

Related sites The U.S. Department of Energy's Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and Infrastructure Technologies program How fuel cells work

This work is aligned with Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST), a new project established by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Many communities would be better off investing in electric vehicles that run on batteries instead of hydrogen fuel cells, in part because the hydrogen infrastructure provides few additional energy benefits for the community besides clean transportation.

The researchers also assessed the potential benefits of using the hydrogen infrastructure to store clean energy for use on demand.

But combining the hydrogen with CO2 to produce methane is a safer option than using hydrogen directly as an energy source and allows the use of existing natural gas infrastructure.

The association estimates that an adequate hydrogen refueling infrastructure of 12,000 stations — less than one tenth of the roughly 170,000 gasoline stations in the U.S. — could be built for no more than $ 15 billion.

Sandia leads a number of other hydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hhydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hHydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hhydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hydrogenhydrogen.

You know, another point is that even if you put aside those kinds of consequences, the fact is that you are always investing in your energy infrastructure anyway; so for example there are very expensive things you could do that would be involved in trying to change how electricity is distributed across the country to help along, you know, [a] hydrogen based economy.

It is as close as it gets, for now, to a comprehensive network of hydrogen filling stations and will mean that Germany will have the most advanced hydrogen infrastructure in the world.

At NREL's new Energy Systems Integration Facility, capabilities such as a hose reliability testing robot and construction of additional refueling hardware will support H2FIRST's hydrogen infrastructure research needs.

development of improved hydrogen fueling station design and requirements, including a broader technical understanding of what is needed to achieve a national hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

Established by the Energy Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliability.

«This new project brings important federal know - how and resources to accelerate improvements in refueling infrastructure that support the commercial market launch of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,» said Air Resources Board Chairman Mary D. Nichols.

By focusing on these aspects of the hydrogen fueling infrastructure, the effort hopes to accelerate and support the widespread deployment of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.

«California is committed to deploying at least 100 hydrogen refueling stations in the next decade, and the H2FIRST effort is a big step toward the development and deployment of a broader, consumer - friendly infrastructure for us and the rest of the United States.

The HydroGEN data infrastructure is built using standardized, open source tools and enables the capture, storage, analysis, and visualization of both experimental and computational datasets that are generated in HydroGEN projects.

NREL hosts the HydroGEN Data Hub as part of the overall EMN data infrastructure network.

The main hardware in the existing research infrastructure at IFE Hynor is found in a process room for testing and development of high temperature hydrogen production and solid oxide fuel cell technology (SOFC), including a Dual Bubbling Fluidized Bed reactor prototype (DBFB) for continuous hydrogen production by sorption - enhanced reforming (SER) of methane with an integrated process for CO2 - capture.

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.

He adds that cost and all performance features must be on a par with those of gasoline - powered vehicles, but that point will not be reached until «full - fledged mass production begins in 2025, after a hydrogen refueling infrastructure is in place.

However, most discussions of hydrogen fuel - cell technology eventually turn to the I word: infrastructure.

Major auto makers are uniting to urge governments, energy companies and other related organizations to develop an easily accessible and affordable hydrogen infrastructure to ensure the successful introduction of fuel - cell vehicles in the global marketplace by 2015.

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Daimler plans to help improve the infrastructure for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and is aiming to have up to 400 hydrogen fuel stations by 2023 as part of its H2 Mobility venture.

Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia, and a new partnership between GM and Honda have a small fleet of hydrogen fuel - cell vehicles in the works, and in search of a viable infrastructure.

Toyota is proudly pairing the Prius with the new Mirai hydrogen fuel cell vehicle of which the first three dozen or so were sold in October in California — with plans to ramp up as infrastructure rolls out, into the Northeast corridor by end of 2016, and with more to follow.

John Mendel, executive vice president, Automobile Division of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. provides overall Honda business remarks, including Honda's investment in California's hydrogen refueling infrastructure with its $ 13.8 million funding in First Element Fuel.

The infrastructure to make it work isn't there, and when it comes to a model as important as the 2018 LS 500, hydrogen is too big of a gamble.

The company is staying mum on the possibility of offering the HyMotion as a production car in the States, and by that we mostly mean California, where there is actually some infrastructure for hydrogen fuel - cell cars, primarily in the Los Angeles area.

Now news that two monitoring wells detected a spike in levels of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, has raised important questions about the aging infrastructure at the complex.

However the goal of making heavy liquid fuel instead of hydrogen is in line with infrastructure requirements.

The absence of a cost estimate for the proposed hydrogen infrastructure was a striking example of the oversimplifications we believe were made.

But the cost of building out an entirely new hydrogen production and distribution infrastructure is huge.

Similarly, the hydrogen - refuelling infrastructure is practically nonexistent outside of California.

If hydrogen fuel can be done cheaper, let it compete, but we can't wait for replacement of the transportation infrastructure.

Acid rain, which is the type of rain that possesses high levels of hydrogen ions, still has noxious and vile effects on streams, lakes, forests, aquatic animals, infrastructure and plants.

Instead, Frank said, automakers promise hydrogen - powered vehicles hailed by President Bush and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, even though hydrogen's backers acknowledge the cars won't be widely available for years and would require a vast infrastructure of new fueling stations.

The UK government has revealed plans to pump # 23 million into «cutting edge» infrastructure to accelerate the uptake of hydrogen powered vehicles, reports Utility Week.

* The need for a new, highly expensive new infrastructure for the distribution and storage of hydrogen.

Other analyses cite the lack of an extensive hydrogen infrastructure in the U.S. as an ongoing challenge to Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle commercialization.