Tag archive: Hydrogen Car

Residents of California can take a trip to Orange County and find the world's first sewage-powered refueling station. Located just off the 405 freeway, the station is located next to the Orange County waste-water treatment plant in Fountain Valley. The hydrogen fuel offers about 70 miles per gallon and the station can fuel up to 50 automobiles per day with the daily 120 kilograms of hydrogen gas produced at the plant. In order to produce… Read More

Are you still trying to decide between a new hybrid car or an all-electric vehicle? If so, then you might be in the minority of consumers. The results of a survey released today depict a bleak outcome for alternative fuel vehicles. The survey asked consumers what alternative fuel they preferred between gasoline-electric hybrids, compressed natural gas (CNG), hydrogen fuel cell (HFC), and electric vehicles (EV). Not surprisingly, gas-powered… Read More

Check out Part I and Part II in our series about life in the year 2020. Our cities are a mess. Based on grids of pavement for devices of transport that pump poisonous fumes into the atmosphere, they and their inhabitants are slowly but inexorably being choked into submission. Many of them are rotting from the core – their eroding downtowns often unattainable in heavy traffic from the distant, sprawling suburbs that surround them. And in those… Read More

With gas prices in most parts of the United States well past $4.00 a gallon, and edging ever upward, interest in finding an alternative fuel source has never been higher. Ethanol, bio-diesel and gasoline-electric hybrids have all already shown up on the market in one form or another, but the auto industry’s darling, hydrogen fuel cells, have for the most part been confined to magazine covers and car expos. That may change with Honda’s 2008 FCX… Read More