Schatz Center readies hydrogen station (Humboldt Univ., CA)

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Engineers at Humboldt State University’s Schatz Energy Research Center are designing and will install a campus hydrogen fueling station to support a hydrogen-powered Toyota Prius for two years as part of California’s Hydrogen Highway Program and the Schatz Center’s world-renowned initiatives to foster the use of renewable energy.

HSU President Rollin Richmond will be among the operators of the Prius, which is scheduled for delivery around April 2007. It will serve as a technology test bed to demonstrate the potential benefits of hydrogen-fueled vehicles.

The state’s Hydrogen Highway Network, seeded by an executive order in mid-2004, is a phased plan to build 250 hydrogen fueling stations and 20,000 hydrogen-fueled vehicles. They are intended to be the groundwork for full-scale commercialization of such technologies, aimed at diversifying California’s sources of transportation energy and stimulating economic growth with environmentally sound renewable supplies.

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Until we get a better way of converting water to hydrogen I don't believe it will cure global warming.

http://www.humboldt.edu/~serc/trinidad.html

and electricity from wind turbines are used to today produce H2 as an energy storage medium.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4853004/

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2006/12/11/daily47.html

But you are (almost) right - today, most of hydrogen used in fuel cell systems is derived natural gas.

However, once the infrastructure for hydrogen production, storage, distribution and end-use is in place, there is no technical reason why it can't be produced from wind or solar electricity...

for this project...

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HSU’s new hydrogen fueling station is the first step in the Schatz Center’s ongoing effort to develop a hydrogen power park using renewable landfill gas from the local Cummings Road Landfill. This gas currently goes unused and is flared at the landfill.

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