| the first family of fuel cells takes the baby for a ride...... |
[Dec. 5th, 2005|09:22 am] |
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sometimes it pays to be polite to those pesky telemarketers
The big news out of LA's Daily Breeze is about Jon Spallino and his family's new car. Mr. Spallino, from Redondo Beach, is the first non-industry related person in the world to lease a fuel cell car (pictured above). He's the proud driver of a Honda FCX. Lucky guy! "We wanted a regular guy with a family," said Stephen Ellis, Honda manager for fuel cell marketing. And they found that in Spallino. Well he isn't exactly a "regular family guy" Jon's been driving a Honda CX (runs on natural gas) and that made the HOnda team feel he was ready to deal with some added issues (like, where would you fill up a fuel cell car if i dropped it into your driveway this afternoon? where huh?). Also, from the following quote we can see that Mr. Spallino is pretty calm and well tempered:
A few months before leasing the FCX, Ellis called Spallino to ask him about his impressions of the GX. The survey lasted about half an hour. A few weeks later, Ellis called again and asked Spallino more questions about the GX. Ellis called one more time. Ellis asked to meet Spallino for lunch. At that point, Spallino had had enough. "I thought it was some sort of survey-extreme and I was ready to put an end to it," Spallino recalled. But Spallino agreed to meet at a restaurant, where Ellis and another Honda official offered to lease the FCX to him for $500 a month.
Wow. pays to be nice to the telemarketers! (well maybe sometimes) |
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| now some real groovy fuel cell news |
[Nov. 26th, 2005|03:33 pm] |
Move over Oscar! There's energy in that there trash!
3 Tons of garbage a day = energy for 2 houses! Japan's ancient city Kyoto has just launched a pilot project to generate electricity for fuel cells with hydrogen derived from raw garbage. Organizers of the project (Kyoto University, the Environment Ministry and Kyoto's Mayor Yorikane Masumoto), aim to put their garbage-based power generation scheme into practical use in 2013.
The project uses a daily 3 tons of raw garbage to produce biogas made up primarily of methane gas, for conversion into hydrogen. From 3 tons of raw garbage, they produce 500 to 600 cubic meters of hydrogen, enough to generate electricity to sustain two households for one month. By 2013, the Kyoto municipal government will build a biogas generation facility that is expected to help generate electricity to cover the daily consumption of 18 million households by using 60 tons of raw garbage a day to be collected from 160,000 households.
I know what you're thinking... and i agree! We are getting close to that point where we'll have our very own Mr. Fusions! And they thought Jim Ignatowski was braindead!
[from Fuel Cell Works] |
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