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A few automotive thoughts, if I may… Ford’s newest vehicle, to be on the market later this year, is the C-Max: Aside from the atrocious name — are they now measuring corporate success by the number of cheap shots people take at their product names? — this looks like a winner in the ye olde marketplace. Somewhat . . . → Read More: Driving the future Autoblog Green has the short story of a surprising claim by one car company, Daimler: Fuel cell vehicles to cost no more than diesel hybrids by 2015. This is terrific news, right? Hydrogen fuel cell cars emit nothing but water vapor, after all. Can’t get much cleaner than that. It’s not quite that simple, of course. . . . → Read More: Cheap hydrogen cars coming! Good news? Well… Every once in a while I stumble across a rude reminder of just how precarious? perverse? stupefyingly weird? the road from laboratory to the mainstream commercial market can be for new technology. While looking for something in my countless gigs of downloaded reports and scientific papers, I ran across the February, 2002 document, Guidance for . . . → Read More: I want my (fuel cell powered) jet pack! One of the most fascinating things about technological developments is watching them make it to market as real world products and services available to consumers. This process is almost always slower than we’d like (everything looks simpler to those of us who don’t have to do the work to make it happen, after all), and . . . → Read More: Electrified transportation hits the knee in the curve Algae to solve the Pentagon’s jet fuel problem: The brains trust of the Pentagon says it is just months away from producing a jet fuel from algae for the same cost as its fossil-fuel equivalent. The claim, which comes from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) that helped to develop the internet and satellite navigation systems, has . . . → Read More: Algae jet fuel My post yesterday on the drop in hydrogen fuel cell funding by the US government (Hydrogen: Happy trails time?) is getting a lot of hits over on The Energy Collective, and there were a couple of comments by Garry Golden that deserve a more thoughtful reply than a quick comment. So I’m taking the slightly . . . → Read More: A response to Gary Golden on hydrogen Are we finally seeing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles heading off into the general direction of the sunset? Possibly, although I wouldn’t bet my keyboard on it. WSJ: Running on Empty: Obama Budget Cuts Funding for Hydrogen Car: President Obama’s proposed 2010 budget calls for cutting funding for a program at the Department of Energy that carries out . . . → Read More: Hydrogen: Happy trails time?  3 comments - (Comments are closed)  Climate change, Electricity, Hydrogen, Public policy, Transportation Seriously, I just have to ask–are the CNG vehicle and hydrogen fuel cell people having a contest to see which group can drive me insane first? Just when I think one of them (most recently the CNG camp) has pegged the absurdity needle with their claims about how vastly cleaner CNG is for use in . . . → Read More: Hydrogen and CNG insanity rages on The US Dept. of Energy has issued a set of spreadsheets on the use of alternative fuel vehicles, available from two web pages: EIA Alternative Transportation Fuels-Supplier Data EIA Alternative Transportation Fuels-User and Fuel Data A few observations: This data is just for government and other organization fleets and does not include individual owners. This is not obvious from . . . → Read More: Document alert: Alternative transportation fuels Nanoparticles could make hydrogen cheaper than gasoline: The hydrogen economy is getting a shot in the arm from a start-up that says its nanoparticle coatings could make hydrogen easy to produce at home from distilled water, and ultimately bring the cost of hydrogen fuel cells in line with that of fossil fuels. QuantumSphere Inc. says it has perfected . . . → Read More: Hydrogen: (still) not so much |
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