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Title: Australia’s First Hydrogen Car Launched, with Solar Refueller
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RenewEconomy.com.au
URL Source: http://reneweconomy.com.au/2015/aus ... hed-with-solar-refueller-63637
Published: Apr 1, 2015
Author: Sophie Vorrath
Post Date: 2015-04-02 09:03:30 by Operation 40
Keywords: Hydrogen, Renewable, Oil
Views: 1874
Comments: 4
Nearly four months after its arrival on Australian soil, the nation’s first hydrogen fuel cell passenger vehicle has been officially unveiled in Sydney, alongside another first – a solar powered hydrogen refuelling station... ...In December, the company flagged its plans to build its own solar powered hydrogen refueller, as well as its own electrolyser, in partnership with Australian company Sefca. The hydrogen electrolyser was also to be powered by the solar array, making the whole operation fully self-sustainable, with hydrogen made on-site... ...“The potential to produce hydrogen from renewable solar and wind energy, particularly for fuel cell powered electric vehicles, is of significant interest and potential economic benefit for Australia,” said CEFC CEO Oliver Yates. “The refuelling facility at Ryde in Sydney will generate hydrogen from solar panels – demonstrating that you can bottle sunshine to refuel cars,” he said...MORE http://reneweconomy.com.au/2015/australias-first-hydrogen-car-launched-with-solar-refueller-63637 Australia kicks off plans for ‘Hydrogen Highway’ Australia’s Industry and Science Minister Ian Macfarlane has unveiled the country’s first cell passenger vehicle as well as its first hydrogen refuelling station as part of plans for a ‘hydrogen highway’. The Hyundai SUV ix35 Fuel Cell arrived in Australia in June 2014 and has been undergoing operational trials since. The official unveiling was accompanied by the installation of Australia’s first solar powered hydrogen refuelling station at Hyundai Motor Company Australia’s Macquarie Park headquarters. The site is currently using hydrogen provided by gas partner Coregas Australia, but soon to be creating its own hydrogen onsite through the use of an electrolyser and harnessing solar power... First England Now Australia, China and Japan. Meanwhile, the US is busy Fracking and digging for Arctic Oil. Nice Work Americans!
http://evfleetworld.co.uk/news/2015/Apr/Australia-kicks-off-plans-for-8216Hydrogen-Highway8217/0438019211
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#1. To: Operation 40 (#0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_e7rA4fBAo&t=10m8s http://phys.org/news85074285.html
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Sounds like a blast!
Here's Enron...er...Elon himself, so everyone can see it- the fool talks about fuel cells at 10:36 This little 2 bit punk thinks he knows a lot about hydrogen- he's betting against Toyota, Honda and Hyundai- all of whom have spent over 20 years perfecting this tech. He didn't found Tesla and he didn't invent electric cars. One day him and his buddy JB Straubel thought wiring 8,000 laptop batteries together and soaking them in coolant would be a good idea. Would you buy a used Tesla knowing you have to spend ~$20,000 on a new battery - because every battery that fool has sold will one day die and need replacement. That's a cost that isn't figured in to the "savings" on gas. A new Nissan Leaf battery costs $5,000 + tax and installation. Guess what a 2012 used Leaf is selling for? Musk the Magnificent bet his company on lithium batteries- of course he's going to bash fuel cells- which are far superior. Have you seen the price of TSLA lately? These days, when little Elon talks, wall street balks. People are catching on to the fact that he's a liar and a con artist. If it wasn't for the tax credit scheme this punk put over on the population of California Tesla might not even be in business today. Taking money from the middle class to subsidize rich people's toy battery cars is a good idea, isn't it. Look at the date on that article- do you have any idea how far solar PV prices have fallen since that was written? I'm guessing no. But the author makes it easy and leaves out solar generated hydrogen completely. Not a single mention of hydrogen produced with any renewable energy. Here's a book by people that know what they are talking about: Solar Hydrogen- Fuel of the Future New thermochemical water splitting using concentrated solar power (CSP) as well as CSP coupled to electrolysis has the potential to convert and store solar energy into clean hydrogen using a tiny fraction of the world's desert area to meet our present and future global energy needs. Photovoltaics, in turn, has the versatility required for supporting the creation of a distributed energy generation infrastructure in developing countries especially now that the price of PV solar electricity has fallen to unprecedented low levels. In all these cases, solar H2 will be used to store energy and release it on demand either for fuel cells (to power homes and boats) or internal combustion engines and turbines (for powering cars, trucks and in thermoelectric power units). This book on solar hydrogen is unique in its field and is a timely treatment of a hot topic in industry, academic, political and environmental circles. With reference to many examples as well as to new technologies, this accessible book provides insight into a crucial technology for our common future and numerous colour pictures contribute to the book's readability. Written by experts in the field who are engaged at the forefront of research, the book supplies readers with last minute insight from the frontiers of research. The book will be of interest to Politicians, solar PV companies, hydrogen and sustainability researchers, environmentalists, managers in the automotive and nautical industries, undergraduate and graduate students in physics, chemistry, energy and materials science. Who are you going to believe, Musk or Toyota, Honda and Hyundai? Tesla is a pimple on Toyota's ass- and sometime in the next few years it's going to pop and oooze all over the place. And the customers may not be able to get a replacement $20,000 battery at all- what are they going to do with a car that won't move?
Hydrogen is safer than propane or gasoline. Ever seen a propane tank? Some people store dangerous gas a few feet from their homes. And sometimes something goes wrong and the gas leaks. And because it's propane, it sinks, collects and waits for a spark. Hydrogen, on the other hand, flies up into space at 14 MPH. So it doesn't sink, collect and blow up.
#2. To: Operation 40 (#0)
#3. To: tomder55 (#1)
http://phys.org/news85074285.html
http://www.amazon.com/Solar-Hydrogen-Future-Mario-Pagliaro/dp/1849731950/Renewable hydrogen produced using solar energy to split water is the energy fuel of the future. Accelerated innovation in both major domains of solar energy (photovoltaics and concentrated solar power) has resulted in the rapid fall of the solar electricity price, opening the route to a number of practical applications using solar H2.
#4. To: kenh (#2)
Sounds like a blast!
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