| won't nobody drive the million dollar HFC?? |
[Aug. 3rd, 2006|11:01 pm] |
Strange times in Chula Vista CA as no city employees want to drive the Honda FCX fuel cell cause it's just too daunting....
So here's the story: Honda gave the City of Chula Vista a sweetheart deal, they got to lease a FCX vehicle for $500 a month. This is a pretty great price considering at this point the cars still cost around $1 million. So, what's hapened is that everyone is afraid of driving the car. Seriously no one wants to be known as the guy who crashed the million dollar car. So even though they have a local electrolizer to refill the fuel cell, and even though the car emits nothing but watter, no one wants it. They offered it to Steve Padilla, Chula Vista mayor, he said thanks but no thanks. Everybody's chicken. Even though any employee can take the car out, even for a quickie spin. No one want to be the guy who crashes it. Except for one bold young employee, yeah, you guessed it; an intern. At least the intern's got style...
[swear i'm not making this up] |
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| Las Vegas to get second hydrogen station for fuel cell vehicles |
[May. 22nd, 2006|09:36 am] |
A second hydrogen fuel station is being planned to open in October in Las Vegas, a boost to local plans to introduce fuel cell vehicles. The station will open at the Las Vegas Valley Water District's main campus and is a joint venture with the UNLV Research Foundation. The Water District will have two small hydrogen-powered trucks that will use the station. The hydrogen for the new station also will be produced via solar-generated electricity. |
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| I WANT ONE!!!!!! (new toy hydrogen car!) |
[May. 22nd, 2006|08:57 am] |
The H-Racer from Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies is a palm-sized toy hydrogen car with its own fuel cell refueling station that creates hydrogen fuel by combining solar power and water. OK it's not the first one but to compare it to either the Thames lucide less-is-less model or that inaccessible metal one fomr Japan, this one kicks ass! Thanks gizmodo! |
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| good news for Honda FCX Fuel Cell Car |
[May. 22nd, 2006|08:49 am] |
Great news for people who live with winter climes and want a fuell cell horesless carriage; The FCX is capable of starting and operating at temperatures as low as -20C (-4F) with improved performance, range and reduced build complexity! Coming soon? |
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| FuelCells at Kent State this May |
[May. 22nd, 2006|08:48 am] |
The Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition will hold the 2006 Ohio Fuel Cell Symposium on May 23-24 at Kent State. For the first time, the Symposium will offer a short course on fuel cell fundamentals - featuring experts from Case Western Reserve University, The Ohio State University and The University of Toledo - on topics such as systems integration, fuel processing and hydrogen storage. |
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| it's official! Bill H.R. 5143 passes 416 to 6 |
[May. 11th, 2006|06:34 pm] |
from private Xprize to public HPrize
Fun times in the House! They just passed a bill funding a Hydrogen Fuel Cell prize. A grand prize of $10 million, and smaller prizes reaching millions of dollars is offered to anyone who can make one of these things viable... it's pretty muchin teh same vein as that Ansari X-Prize. The Energy Department announced earlier this year that it would provide $119 million in funding for research into hydrogen fuel cells, including $100 million over the next four years to projects to improve components of fuel cell systems.I guess the extra couple of million is incentive for the engineers and scientists to quit stalling or something...
[thanks anonymous tipster!] |
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| Xcel + Wind + NREL + Hydrogen + DOE =? |
[May. 11th, 2006|04:05 am] |
The U.S. Department of Energy, NREL, and Xcel Energy (NYSE: XEL) recently signed an agreement for a "wind to hydrogen" research, development and demonstration project. Pretty cool. As the focus is electrolizing water into Hydrogen with air power :DDD
The new wind-electrolysis system will be at NREL's National Wind Technology Center, where hydrogen will be produced, compressed and stored to be used as a vehicle fuel or to generate electricity. The project will compare electrolyzer technologies and researchers will examine issues related to system efficiency, integration, compression, storage, cost and the use of a mixture of hydrogen and natural gas. "One unique feature of this system is the direct connection between the wind turbine and the electrolyzer, which will make the system more efficient," (yeah.... fairly unique... in Toronto on the lakeshore there's one of those that's been making H from wind for almost 2 years now). Still a good bigger-than-a-baby step!
[fuelcell works] |
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| All Aboard! |
[May. 5th, 2006|05:38 am] |
FC Choo Choo Debut
News from Japan yesterday is that they just rolled out theteh first Fuel Cell Train! Testing begins thsi July and they expect that passengers will be riding the hydrogen powered vehicles next year! |
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| daily plug... |
[Apr. 28th, 2006|06:28 am] |
OK It's an article about Troy New York and their new Tech Valley. But who are the two examples of the turnaround and rebirth?? None other than DayStar and Plug Power! ...and if you've been reading this for anytime now, you know just how much i love these two companies!! So you can imagine how happy I was to read an article in the Troy Record, talking about both of these companies! Hmmm will there be a daystar solar powered electolyzer on the horizon? That would just be too kewl. |
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| another plug for Plug |
[Apr. 19th, 2006|11:47 am] |
More Partners for the Home/Factory FCs!
Well it's no secret to anyone here that (even though I may have some harsh words for FCs in general) I am a HUGE fan of plug Power. And last week I mentioned how they now have a deal to do those fancy Honda Full Home Fuel Cells, which kinda rocks. But the news this week is that now you have two hundred and seventy million more reasons to believe that Plug Power will be a major force to be reckoned with! |
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| fuck fuel cells.... |
[Apr. 15th, 2006|12:46 pm] |
Seriously, why wait forever for a fuel cell, when there are
Hydrogen I.C.E. vehicles running fine, working fine and rocking it out??
 
ok that's a MiniCooper Internal Hydrogen Combustion Vehicle, and that's a
straight Hydrogen filling station. Notice no mushroom clouds?
OK, check out this article from Canadian Driver, from 18 months ago(!!) where they talk about BMW's Hydrogen-ICE cars (been running for half a decade, no hindenburgs), now that hot MiniCooper, and even about how they have been filling up at the Munich Airport for years no (again, with no hindenbergs). In fact they say; " Any gasoline engine can theoretically be adapted to use hydrogen fuel and provide the various benefits offered by the gas in the type of vehicles we're already driving." And it's true. It's about as easy to convert your car to run on hydrogen as it is to turn a diesel into a biodiesel (which is WAY easy). So what are we waiting for? There are solar powered electroliyzers EVERYWHERE! And it's just that easy. We could all be driving on a brew we make in our basements, who's exhaust is water. So maybe instead of swapping one hundred year old system (ICE Engines) for another hundred year old system (fuel cells, i mean you didn't think they were new, did you?) instead of that overhaul, why not just upgrade??. Fuel Cell Vehicles and their drive trains will take a lot longer to implement than converting all of our vehicles (yes even those stupid SUVs --which wouldn't be that bad if they burnt water...) So seriously, what do we have to do to get people to wake up and smell the hydrogen? |
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