What if you could buy a home solar energy extracting pump from a car manufacturer to run their products?!!
In the latest round of who’s greener, General Motors announced that they will be selling a domestic hydrogen refueling unit by 2011. The unit will create hydrogen, a carrier of energy, by processing water using house current or solar powered electric cells.
It is preferable to use solar power because it is pointless to use fossil fuels to create hydrogen, which results in an overall energy loss and pollution. If electricity is generated by nuclear power, off peak power is surplus power not needed.
GM also announced earlier this month that they will build more than 100 Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell vehicles in fall of 2007 to collect data on all aspects of the customer experience. A variety of drivers, in differing driving environments, will test the vehicles in California, New York metropolitan area and Washington D.C.
http://media.gm.com/servlet/GatewayServlet?target=http://image.emerald.gm.com/gmnews/viewmonthlyreleasedetail.do?domain=74&docid=28560
In December 2002, the city of Los Angeles began leasing the first of five Honda FCXs, which are now used in normal, everyday activities by city officials. It was the first fuel cell car to be approved for commercial use.
http://corporate.honda.com/environment/fuel_cells.aspx?id=fuel_cells_fcx
Previous posts on this blog about hydrogen:
Hydrogen, it’s the same stuff your grandfather used in the zeppelin
http://www.yorkblog.com/archives/2006/05/hydrogen_its_th.html
The Hydrogen Road of Norway
http://www.yorkblog.com/archives/2006/05/the_hydrogen_ro.html
Quantum Technologies is a company that is already designing home hydrogen refulers
http://www.qtww.com/products/haft/hyhauler.php
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