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Road to Nowhere: Hydrogen Fueling Stations Nowhere to Be Found Print E-mail
Written by Kate Trainor   
Sunday, 06 April 2008


A lot can happen in four years. But, in the case of California’s hydrogen fueling stations, it’s a whole lotta nuthin’. Four years ago, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's issued an executive order to build "hundreds of hydrogen fueling stations" throughout the state. Today, not a single such stations stands.

Schwarzenegger’s so-called “hydrogen highway” has hardly gotten off the ground and, already, it’s hitting the road.

The San Jose Mercury News said the blame may lie with several sources, including inevitable political bureaucracy: energy companies and utilities for not taking the initiative to build stations; automakers, for failing to manufacture enough hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; legislators, for neglecting to write and enforce laws that would mandate efficient production of hydrogen; and Schwarzenegger, himself, for failing to follow through on his promise and position himself as California’s hydrogen hero.

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Bob Wallace said:

 		 There may be no blame to lay at anyones feet.

We took a good look at hydrogen, it was an interesting idea, but we found it lacking.

We moved on to more promising technologies.
April 06, 2008

Hust Watching said:

 		 G.M said the fuelcell car is ready, hydrogen can fuel the I.C.E. as well as C.N.G. or L.P. gas using most of the same equipment, and the E.V. is old hat and works very well but no one thought about building the power supply to get hydrogen or charge all the batteries in the E.V.s. Oh well I guess we keep right on getting what we have been getting because we keep putting the same people back in office. Pony up to the pump boys, nothing is going to change in the near future.
April 07, 2008

Ross said:

 		 It's simple, at this time Hydrogen fuel cells are not a viable technology for personal vehicles. There's a decent chance it never will be.
April 07, 2008

Mark said:

 		 smilies/angry.gif Hydrogen cars will still kill pedestrians and cyclists.

smilies/angry.gif Unless the hydrogen is completely renewably generated it will be produced with electricty from burning coal or nuclear power, both pretty bad options.

smilies/grin.gif "biofuel" is the solution but not as many people are talking at the moment. "Biofuelling" will be eating something before you ride your bicycle.
April 23, 2008

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