Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Hawii's Hydrogen Fuel Experiment
The Hawaiian Island of Oahu is beggining a new era of climate-friendly transportation and energy infrastructure. The state's gas company is trying to set up an island-wide hydrogen fuel system by 2015. With hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars and fueling stations. Hydrogen only produces water as a waste and is alot better than oil. Hawaii is a good location to test this out at a low cost. Oahu is small and isolated, therefore the cars don't go far. The island already has a steady supply of hydrogen. Hydrogen gas is produced as a byproduct of the state's natural gas production industry. The supply of hydrogen drops the production cost of each hydrogen fuel pumps from a couple million dollars down to $300,000-500,000. GM already has 119 Chevy Equinox fuel cell cars driving around the U.S. mostly going to hawaii and hoping to get more out on the market by 2015.
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I think if we can run cars of hydrogen then the alot of the worldwide greenhouse problems would be decreased. ALthought we have greater worries, running cars off hydrogen would be a good idea. I also think hawaii is a good place to test this experiment b/c of there location.
ReplyDeleteI think that is a great idea to save our oil and protect the earth by using hydrogen powered cars. It isn't harmful to the environment and its a biproduct of the industries on the island. This island is a great place to test this out because of its size and location, but it's also a downfall because we can't see what hydrogen powered cars can do long distance.
ReplyDeleteI believe this is a great idea. Anything to help save the plant is a good thing to try. Even if it's not perfect at first we still have something to work with and can keep improving over time so we can start running all cars on this hydrogen powered idea. At some point we might be able to think of a recourse that was not as important as water is to us and use that.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea, and would stop a lot of environmental concerns. However i have a few questions like are hydrogen cars expensive? and how are we going to slowly put these into the market? because there are tons of people who want to stop this because if we stop buying gas for cars then there could be a world-wide economic crash way worse then what we have already seen. If thats the case we need to figure out a solid plan of attack so that there isn't a world wide crisis.
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