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the Hydrogen Highway is not an inexpensive road
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Tue Feb 19, 2019 3:08 am
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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #1 Why Hydrogen, its extracted with a high electrical charge and its conversion is poor, its costly to transport and handle, electric cars at least have a better efficiency. Ged
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Zitat von boxter im Beitrag #2Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #1 I don't have a clue. But I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't have something to do with money and legislators wanting to feel good about saving the environment while spending someone else's tax money.
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This stop on the California Hydrogen Highway has finally been completed after years of construction at a cost of millions of dollars. And it is located where hydrogen-powered vehicles are unlikely to travel - across from Alice's Restaurant, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 50 miles south of San Francisco. While the station may now be completed there appears to be no one to operate it, likely because they can't find anyone that can sleep long enough for a customer to arrive. Check out the attached photos that I took today. Note the GS parked in front of the station, apparently waiting for some hydrogen activity. Either that or its rider is hoping that the new all-gender bathrooms will open some day.
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Zitat von Alda im Beitrag #5 That depends upon how heavily it is subsidized by the government in your state. Since the H2 pump was not functioning and its display was blank, I don't have an answer. Perhaps Google knows?
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he door to the Hydrogen Highway was left open today and no one was around, so went in and took some photos of the very expensive equipment that does nothing but operate a light on top of one of the electrical cabinets. What a waste of money!
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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #7 Whose money was it? Alan |
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Zitat von Alda im Beitrag #8Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #7 I believe it was mostly from a government grant. I read that the facility was built by a Canadian developer who ran out of money halfway through construction. Neither the grant, nor his investment funds were enough to complete the station. Some other agency, perhaps the bank that invested in the project, or maybe the bond company that secured the work, finished it off earlier this year. However, it looks like no one has been found to manage and run the facility and the H2 pump is not energized, although the station equipment seems to be doing something, perhaps keeping the hydrogen that was delivered to the station a couple of years ago by diesel semi truck liquid so that it will not vent into the atmosphere.
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My newspaper today had an article on the front page regarding an H2 fuel cell-powered catamaran that is currently under construction and will be used for commuting between Berkeley and San Francisco. It will carry up to 85 passengers.
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H2 reaches New Jersey, but no highway to drive on yet:
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Your hydrogen fuel station may have a use yet.. |
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More on the production of Hydrogen. |
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Zitat von Alda im Beitrag #14 presumably the sewage makes methane which is then burnt to produce electricity to hydrolyse water? Why not just run their fleet on liquid natural gas and cut out the inefficient last stage, making H2? |
