{"id":14219,"date":"2010-12-20T08:16:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T08:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/uncategorized\/hydrogenpowered-shuttle-fleet-for-nrel-visitors.php"},"modified":"2013-01-24T09:58:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T09:58:52","slug":"hydrogenpowered-shuttle-fleet-for-nrel-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/transport\/hydrogenpowered-shuttle-fleet-for-nrel-visitors.php","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen-powered shuttle fleet for NREL visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/span> In India fuel prices are hiking and people are very concerned about the severe imbalance between income and expenditure. If policy makers stood still in their money-minting-citizen-wrecking projects, and give the Colorado-based National Renewable Energy Laboratory a bit of their … Continue reading3
\nIn India fuel prices are hiking and people are very concerned about the severe imbalance between income and expenditure. If policy makers stood still in their money-minting-citizen-wrecking projects, and give the Colorado-based National Renewable Energy Laboratory a bit of their attention, maybe they could get convinced to cut their fellow countrymen some slack. The lab\u2019s Department of Energy is leasing out 12 hydrogen-powered shuttle buses for visitors to tour the premises. Engineers say that the shuttle can run up to 250 miles and is up to 25% more energy-efficient than conventional gasoline-powered engines.<\/p>\n
\nAccording to a statement by the NREL \u2013 \u2018the shuttle uses the same basic technology as a conventional engine but runs on hydrogen fuel created at the Wind to Hydrogen (Wind2H2) Project in Boulder which links wind turbines to electrolyzers, which pass the wind-generated electricity through water to split it into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen can then be stored and used later to generate electricity from an internal combustion engine or a fuel cell\u2019. The lab\u2019s engineers point that while it might not be such a huge difference, it is a \u2018good stepping stone to get the technology into the market and provide an alternative to fleets while the infrastructure for hydrogen fueling stations develops\u2019.
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