Shell to offer hydrogen in LA: is the new fuel going mainstream?
Notice anything different about LA’s Santa Monica Blvd? It’s huge and full of traffic, so probably not. But if you have, you may have not noticed a new place to fill up on hydrogen fuel.
Why would you need Hydrogen fuel? To power our future cars, of course. According to Shell Global VP, Duncan Macleod, supplies of gas and oil will be unable to keep up with our needs after 2015, prompting several industry leaders like Shell to change the modern world’s fuel infrastructure. And by 2020, fuel cell vehicles should reach mass production
In order to build a massively available fuel system to replace oil, we have to start building hydrogen stations now. The plan is to begin with highly populated areas such as LA, Tokyo, New York, and Shanghai, says Macleod. Such areas will lead the rest of the world into the new system, eventually destroying our dependency on fuel.
If you happen to have a fuel cell car or are planning to buy one soon, this one’s on Santa Monica and Federal in Los Angeles. Though they’re scarce in the city for now, Shell plans to slowly add more and more Hydrogen stations as we move into the future. This station will create its own fuel with the help of an electrolyzer, though this is only temporary. In order to sustain entire societies, Shell and others will need to eventually open dedicated Hydropgen plants.
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June 6th, 2008
A more efficient and cost effective renewable energy system is needed.
A more efficient and cost effective renewable energy system is needed.
To accelerate the implementation of renewable electric generation with added incentives and a FASTER PAYBACK – ROI. (A method of storing energy, would accelerate the use of renewable energy) A greater tax credit, accelerated depreciation, funding scientific research and pay as you save utility billing. (Reduce and or eliminates the tax on implementing energy efficiency, eliminate increase in Real estate Taxes for energy efficiency improvement).
In California, you also have the impediment, that when there are an interruption of power supply by the Utility you the consumer cannot use your renewable energy system to provide power.
In today’s technology there is automatic switching equipment that would disconnect the consumer from the grid, which would permit renewable generation for the consumer even during power interruption. Energy storage technology must advance substantially. “Energy conservation through energy storage”.
New competition for the world’s limited oil and natural gas supplies is increasing global demand like never before. Reserves are dwindling. These and other factors are forcing energy prices to skyrocket here at home. It’s affecting not just the fuel for our cars and homes, but it’s driving up electricity costs, too. A new world is emerging. The energy decisions our nation makes today will have huge implications into the next century.
A synchronous system with batteries allows the blending of a PV with grid power, but also offers the advantage of “islanding” in case of a power failure. A synchronous system automatically disconnects the utility power from the house and operates like an off-grid home during power failures. This system, however, is more costly and loses some of the efficiency advantages of a battery-less system.
We’re surrounded by energy — sun, wind, water. The problem is harnessing it in an economical way.
Jay Draiman, Northridge, CA
May 29, 2008
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June 16th, 2008
“Can the energy crises be overcome?” – I say yes!
I think that the public, the government and corporate America should treat these energy crises as a danger to our way of life.
During World War II, the America we know unified in a common cause. Everyone rolled their sleeves to chip in and Americans produced an enormous amount of hardware for the war effort. “I see a solution within 36 months”.
If we as a nation can really appreciate and understand the severity and enormity of the energy crises, the catastrophic impact on our economic stability and civilization,
we must unite and do whatever is necessary to produce other forms of energy and overcome this energy and economic crises “by putting all politics and egos aside and look for the good of our nation”.
Jay Draiman, Northridge, CA