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On the road in 2015: from startup to run in 5-10 secondsvideos
If hydrogen fuel cells are in our future, we may start our day waiting for the gasses to get up to pressure and traveling to work listening to the pickup of an electric direct drive motor. For a preview of the experience, we went for a drive with Mark Rossetto ...
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9 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Hydrogen fuel cell grease monkeyvideos
It's been hyped for it's cleanliness (it's only visible emission is water) and it's futuristic hi-techiness (the technology has powered the space shuttle and submarines), but hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have also gotten a bad rap for using a technology that won't be available until ...
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9 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Two centuries of fuel cells... why now?videos
The first hydrogen fuel cell was created in 1839 by Welsh inventor William Grove, but it didn't produce enough electricity to be useful. Nearly 2 centuries later, critics still make the same claim, but governments and major car companies are betting otherwise. For a peek at what a hydrogen ...
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9 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A poop powered power plantvideos
Animal and human waste have the power to fuel homes (India) and even a train (Sweden), and since 2004, biogas has even been fueling a hydrogen fuel cell power plant at one Seattle area wastewater treatment center. Using the methane by-product from the sewage of 650,000 Seattle area residents ...
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9 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Tweeting about hydrogen FCVs, EVs and Leontyne Priceblogs
Being married to an early adopter means that I joined the twitterverse before I had any friend there to connect with, so my account sat empty for nearly a year. Then last month I started to tweet- at a moment when it seems the trend is starting to tip- and ...
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1 year ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
Praying to the Priusblogs
We were a classic case of Prius polluters; we were off-gassing smugness and we didn't even know it. My self-satisfaction has many names: eco-snob, pious prius owner, Pious Progressive, etc. And there are many manifestations of this piousness- from Arianna Huffington's claim that to own a hybrid is ...
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2 years, 7 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments