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Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

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Shell Hydrogen opened the first hydrogen dispenser at a retail gasoline station to service a fleet of six fuel cell vehicles from the General Motors Corporation. Located in northeast Washington, D.C, the station is part of a collaboration between Shell and GM to demonstrate hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and refueling infrastructure technology, an important contribution in making fuel cell vehicles an everyday reality. Shell will offer both compressed and liquid hydrogen at the Benning Road station.

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“The only way the Hydrogen Economy will be realized is having not only fuel cell vehicles, but also convenient places to refuel and local communities that will support this transition to a new energy source,”

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The hydrogen station is the centerpiece of a partnership between Shell and GM to develop hydrogen-fueled vehicles on a commercial scale. The companies also are working together on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Infrastructure Demonstration and Validation Project, which was announced in late April by the Secretary of Energy, Spencer Abraham.

One step in the right direction [Smile]

Edit: the URL for the article is too long, but if you really want, you can see find it at shell.com

[ November 24, 2004, 10:43 AM: Message edited by: kaioshin00 ]

Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :

Go shell!
I wonder how long until or if hydrogen powered vehicles will become common?

[ November 24, 2004, 11:41 AM: Message edited by: Morbo ]

Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :

Of course, the question left unasked is, where do they get the hydrogen from?

-Bok

Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :

The answer that pops into my head is "Where did they get it for the Hindenburg?"

Feyd Baron, DoC

EDIT: Lofting city, not mountain.

[ November 24, 2004, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: Architraz Warden ]

Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :

Oh good. I was afraid I was the only one wondering how we keep the cars from blowing up.

Posted by the fro (Member # 2070) on :

Go shell!

Also, the reason they don't blow up is that they arn't made of canvas!

Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :

Cool! And the hydrogen comes from water.

Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :

Bzzzt. Most of the production-level feasible hydrogen comes from... Petrochemicals! Yup, good old fashioned oil.

Someday they'll have scalable electrolysis systems, but for now, I'd wager that any significant hydrogen economy/infrastructure would be heavily based on oil.

-Bok

Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :

I've done some reading into hydrogen powered cars. The dude who invented the Nickel Cadium battery (yes, he's really old) currently has a stable solid-state hydrogen cell that can be mounted in a car to provide fuel. I think it's just expensive to manufacture.