Posted on July 31st, 2008 by admin
Kern County, California, a place the size of Connecticut just north of Los Angeles and home to Bakersfield will be the site of the nation’s first hydrogen production and carbon capture facility. In the past, I’ve talked about the U. S. government’s FutureGen program using fossil fuels to create hydrogen and electricity at power plants [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2008 by admin
The eco exotic Scorpion supercar from Ronn Motors in Horseshoe Bay, Texas has received the duPont REGISTRY “Publishers Choice” award. The duPont REGISTRY is a premiere luxury marketplace for cars, homes and boats, catering mostly to the rich and famous.
According to founder and publisher Tom duPont, “When deciding on the ‘Publisher’s Choice’ vehicle, we often [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by admin
The Hydrogen Road Tour 2008 starts August 10 and continues through August 23 this year. Covering 31 cities in 13 days and 18 different states, the Hydrogen Road Tour 2008 will showcase fuel cell vehicles, hydrogen ICE vehicles and hydrogen refueling stations along the way.
Starting off in Portland, Maine and ending in Los Angeles, California [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by admin
Ron Yerxa and wife, Annette Ballester are the first drivers to get the keys for the long-awaited Honda FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle. The California couple took delivery of their lease vehicle from Sales Manager Dan Rowand of Honda of Santa Monica on Friday, July 25, 2008.
Up to 200 customers over the next three years, [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by admin
It’s not often that I blog more than once a day. In fact, I can count on one finger how many times I’ve done it. But, this story is so significant that it can’t wait until Monday.
A company called Global Hydrogen, Incorporated has created breakthrough technology that lowers the price of compressed hydrogen gas to [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by admin
Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp has taken his movie career a bit too seriously. In 2005, after making the popular Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl he purchased a 35-acre Caribbean Island for $3 million.
But, what’s your own private island without a little treasure on it? That’s what Depp [...]
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Posted on July 24th, 2008 by admin
The U. S. Postal Service and General Motors’ Project Driveway are teaming up to test the Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell vehicle in Irvine, California and Washington DC. Now, if you’ve read this blog for even a short time you’ll realize that I live a relatively short distance from Irvine. In fact, I’ve taken photos of [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by admin
Since I had talked about timelines yesterday for rolling out hydrogen cars and how the critics want to drag this process out for decades, I thought I would follow up today with a short timeline from a hydrogen advocate. According to Dr. Gerald Groenewold, the Director of EERC (Energy & Environmental Research Center) at the [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by admin
Hydrogen car timelines have always amused me to some degree. It seems like everybody and their mother wants to weigh in and predict a date that hydrogen cars will roll off the assembly lines en masse.
Advocates such as myself, predict a short timeline and timeframe (such as 5 years) with the caveat that there must [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2008 by admin
One of the arguments that critics of hydrogen cars launch is that the cost of platinum for fuel cells is too high. The critics not only state that the high cost of platinum means fuel cells are too expensive, but that going to a fuel cell based automotive economy would lead to a world wide [...]
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