[Ruxpercnd]

This is the best thing since sliced bread. This will have a huge impact on America.

Somebody did something right in Vancouver.

http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/clusters/vancouver_e.html
http://www.ballard.com/
Video: http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/Vide ... 2&catId=79

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....In late 2004, NRC-IFCI opened HTEC, the only public facility of its kind in North America. This advanced facility allows companies and researchers to test and evaluate hydrogen vehicles and stationary power systems under a wide range of climatic conditions – all in one location. This research is an important step in moving hydrogen and fuel cell products closer to commercialization.....

....Canadian industry will seize almost 30% of the estimated US$2.4 billion fuel cell market in 2007. In 2003, Canadian companies generated revenues of over US$150 million, with Ballard accounting for the lion's share of the total.....

So, how did this happen in socialist Canada?

I am just guessing that with it's vast potential for hydroelectric power, B.C. could be become a hydrogen exporter.

[Mukluk]

Neat articles, but I had to chuckle at your comment on the hydroelectric. What are you saying, exactly?

m

[hamiltonguyo]

saWEET

[denmns]

Hydrogen fuel cells are the way of the future, and maybe in the next 10 - 15 years, they will be able to have any ordinary vehicle, whether a pick-up truck, or a small car run on it.

It is the big oil companies who are holding it back, because they do not want to see any drop in their share of the world market for thei oil products.

Can you imagine what would happen if most cars could run on electricity, or hydrogen? The oil companies would be hurting big time, unless they get a piece of the market.

[Arctic_Menace]

http://www.cardesignnews.com/autoshows/ ... gm-hywire/

[Ruxpercnd]

Mukluk Mukluk:

Neat articles, but I had to chuckle at your comment on the hydroelectric. What are you saying, exactly?

m

First, hydrogen is the storable fuel of the future. However it takes energy to create hyrdrogen stocks, probably from water. So, we don't want to burn coal and fossil fuels to create hydrogen. Hydroelectic power would be perfect. B.C. probably has more hydroelectric power potential than the citizens can use. By eploiting the hydroelectric power, converting to hydrogen, then you have an exportable product, just like Saudi Arabia.

By the way, there is talk of using hydrogen fuel cells to power laptop computers, etc..

[Thematic-Device]

Ruxpercnd Ruxpercnd:

First, hydrogen is the storable fuel of the future.

That is, if they ever find a way to store it effectively.

Ruxpercnd Ruxpercnd:

By the way, there is talk of using hydrogen fuel cells to power laptop computers, etc..

methanol fuel cells http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/03/05 ... ptop_fuel/

Useful in some circumstances but I think I'll stick with li-ion batteries myself, the ability to readily recharge ones laptop has a certain appeal to it.

[Ruxpercnd]

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It is the big oil companies who are holding it back, because they do not want to see any drop in their share of the world market for thei oil products.

Can you imagine what would happen if most cars could run on electricity, or hydrogen? The oil companies would be hurting big time, unless they get a piece of the market.

I am looking forward to the time when we can tell the oil companies and the Arabs to stick their oil where the sun don't shine. We need new and competing sources of energy so we can enter the new age. Kind of like moving from coal and smokestacks.

And what if you could generate hydrogen from your own local windmill? There are many sources of energy. The big problem with energy is storage and transmission. We just have to move beyond the age of oil.