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 "DaimlerChrysler has a goal of selling at least 100,000 fuel cell vehicles by 2005. GM and Toyota also have teamed up to work on fuel cells, and Toyota announced that it plans to market a fuel cell vehicle by 2002.
Major hurdles remain. In late 1999, automotive fuel cells still cost ten times too much and were about 600 pounds too heavy for mass production for automobiles. However, fuel cells have few moving parts and are simpler than gasoline engines, so they should be affordable and reliable once they are mass-produced."- Denis Hayes, The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair (Get the book.) |
 "In the late 1950s, NASA began to build a compact fuel cell electricity generator for use on space missions. Cost was not a constraint. The fuel cells and hydrogen to run them weighed much less than batteries, an important consideration when firing loads into space on rockets. Later, in manned spacecraft, the astronauts could also drink the water that the fuel cells produced.
There is no question that fuel cells exist and that they work. But huge and confounding questions arise over the economics of hydrogen. The problem is that hydrogen is not exactly a fuel."- James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
 "When hydrogen is combined with oxygen in a fuel cell, energy in the form of electricity is produced. This elec-rricity can power vehicles, act as a heat source, and provide many other uses. The advantage of using hydrogen as an energy carrier is that when it combines with oxygen the only by-products are water and heat. No greenhouse gasses or other particulates are produced by the use of hydrogen fuel cells.
Hydrogen is produced from various sources, ranging from nonrenewable fossil fuels, such as gas and coal, ro biomass."- David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) |
| "GM and Toyota also have teamed up to work on fuel cells, and Toyota announced that it plans to market a fuel cell vehicle by 2002.
Major hurdles remain. In late 1999, automotive fuel cells still cost ten times too much and were about 600 pounds too heavy for mass production for automobiles. However, fuel cells have few moving parts and are simpler than gasoline engines, so they should be affordable and reliable once they are mass-produced. The most important obstacle facing them may be the creation of neighborhood filling stations with hydrogen pumps. It is a chicken-and-egg problem." - Denis Hayes, The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair (Get the book.) |
| "Proposals for switching from an oil and gas to a hydrogen economy are generally associated with the fuel cell technology. A single fuel cell is basically a piece of plastic between a couple of carbon plates that are sandwiched between two end plates acting as electrodes. These plates have channels that distribute the fuel and oxygen. They are modular and can be stacked to produce different amounts of power. Fuel cells can operate at efficiencies two to three times that of the internal combustion engine, and require no moving parts." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
 "It is used to produce energy to fuel cell growth and maintenance. The highest amounts of coenzyme Q10 are in the heart, liver, kidneys, and pancreas and the lowest amounts are in the lungs. The levels of coenzyme Q10 normally decline with age.
Cruciferous: This is known as the mustard family or cabbage family of plants, encompassing the cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli, kohlrabi, cauliflower, kale, and most recently broccoflower, a hybrid of broccoli and cauliflower. This family of plants is known for its anticancer properties."- Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.) |
 "Typically these improvements pay for themselves in energy savings, and they often include renewable power solutions, such as solar and fuel cell generation systems. In Richmond, California, improvements, including a solar electric system for the public library, are expected to save the city more than $9.5 million over the next twenty years. In West Sacramento, California, at the U.S. Postal Service's Processing and Distribution Center, CES installed the nation's largest nonmilitary federal solar power installation, among other energy efficient improvements."- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Wright, who left in November 2005, to be replaced by Nancy Gioia, was responsible for all present and future hybrid, fuel cell, and alternative fuel technology development. Wright had assumed her position only in April 2004 and reported jointly to Product Creation and Research and Advanced Engineering.) She told me at the LOHAS conference that Bill Ford was totally behind her efforts. The company was one of the first to produce a green sustainability report, she added. "I give the credit to Bill Ford. In the late 1990s, we were riding high, selling SUVs by the trainload." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "This works for Ford's and GM's fuel cell technologies. The Midwest is home to ethanol (E85). Texas and the Southwest are home to biodiesel. Expect successful companies to find a way to participate in a whole eco-mall of different green car choices. Expect to see flex-fuel Suburbans that run on Nebraska and Illinois corn and switchgrass; diesel trucks running on vegetable oil; hydrogen-powered sedans; and, of course, hybrids, which represent the first major breakthrough since the Stanley steamer. Actually, let's get off our high horse. America is way behind Brazil." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "Sleek, roomy, and built upon Honda's latest-generation fuel-cell system—a fuel cell stack (similar to a battery) providing 134 horsepower (that's a respectable 100 kilowatts of power) and a hydrogen storage tank allowing more than 350 miles (560 kilometers) range— Honda's FCX looks like a viable contender.
More important, Honda has simultaneously developed the latest generation of its Home Energy Station (HES). The Home Energy Station uses regular natural gas to create hydrogen to fuel the FCX at home."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
| "A single fuel cell is basically a piece of plastic between a couple of carbon plates that are sandwiched between two end plates acting as electrodes. These plates have channels that distribute the fuel and oxygen. They are modular and can be stacked to produce different amounts of power. Fuel cells can operate at efficiencies two to three times that of the internal combustion engine, and require no moving parts." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
| "Then, when the fuel cell recombines hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity, its only by-product will be clean water—completing the cycle. In essence, the energy in sunlight will be trapped to power automobiles.
For obvious reasons of self-interest, the oil industry vigorously opposes new super-efficient automobile motors that eliminate the need for gasoline. Oil-industry opposition will make the challenge of building a nationwide system of hydrogen filling stations for fuel cells much more difficult." - Denis Hayes, The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair (Get the book.) |
| "Efficient fuel cell vehicles would change this number somewhat but not considerably. The transfer of pressurized hydrogen from the truck to the filling station takes much more time than draining gasoline from the tanker into an underground storage tank. The filling station may have to close operations during some hours of the day for safety reasons. Today about one in 100 trucks is a gasoline or diesel tanker. For hydrogen distributed by road one may see 120 trucks, 21 [of which] or 17 percent of them transport hydrogen. One out of six accidents involving trucks would involve a hydrogen truck." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
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