Richard Ha writes:
This is a video about Iceland's hydrogen project.
Now that fleets of fuel cell vehicles are being readied for roll out, Iceland is prepared and ready to get off petroleum for its land and sea transportation.
We can do the same with our curtailed – thrown away! – wind, geothermal and solar power.
I took these photos, posted on their hydrogen refueling station wall, in Iceland in 2011. They give a good, easy-to-read overview.
Toyota is going to showcase their fuel cell car at CES next week. They are trying to make it price competitive with the Tesla sedan, which is still very expensive. The barrier has been the range/tank pressure required. The consumer market won’t accept anything lower than 300 miles between fill ups. That was going to take 15,000 psi tanks, a major engineering and materials problem, so the Toyota FC is using two 10,000 psi tanks. All the car manufacturers know the peak oil curve and they aren’t looking at a Mad Max future. It’s a few years from mass market affordability but the transition is coming.
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-35289_1-57616506/toyota-makes-fuel-cell-vehicle-star-of-ces-2014/
Toyota makes Fuel Cell Vehicle star of CES 2014