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Clarity Begins at Home
Honda produces new fuel-cell car |
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16 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:47 AM on 16 Jun 2008 Honda Motor Co.'s hydrogen-powered FCX Clarity rolled off the line Monday and will be leased to high rollers in California. The Clarity -- an update of Honda's original FCX, a handful of which were leased in 2005 -- runs on hydrogen and electricity, emits only water, and is twice as fuel-efficient as a gas-electric hybrid. Actresses Laura Harris and Jamie Lee Curtis, filmmaker Christopher Guest, and Little ... |
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| Topics: Big Auto, California, cars, celebrity, green living, hydrogen, news, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Highway to Nowhere
California's 'hydrogen highway' runs into roadblocks |
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02 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:53 AM on 02 Apr 2008 Despite California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's executive order four years ago that "hundreds of hydrogen fueling stations" be built in the state, nary a station has been built under the program. Depending on whom you ask, the blame for the sputtering "hydrogen highway" lies with: energy companies and utilities, for not stepping forward to take state matching money to bui ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, cars, energy, hydrogen, news, placemaking, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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With Apologies to Billy Joel
General Motors unveils hydrogen-powered concept Cadillac |
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09 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:03 AM on 09 Jan 2008 Trading in your Chevy for a Cadillac-ac-ac-ac-ac-ac? You oughta know by now: at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, General Motors unveiled a concept Caddy powered by a combination of hydrogen fuel cells and battery power. Following the rule that all green car technology must have an insipid name, the new Cadillac Provoq (sigh) is designed to travel some 300 mil ... |
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| Topics: Big Auto, cars, hydrogen, news, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Powering cars with hydrogen?
A new idea for how to transport the stuff in cars |
Andrew Dessler |
04 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I have never been a fan of hydrogen technology as a solution to the climate change problem. It would be great if we could power automobiles with hydrogen (generated, of course, with renewable energy), but how do you carry the hydrogen around in your car? Do you really want to be driving around on top of a tank full of compressed hydrogen? Can you say Hindenburg? I just listened to a great segment on this week's Science Friday. The guest, Jerry Woodall, a professor at ... |
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| Topics: cars, energy, hydrogen, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Hy-Wire hydrogen car
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David Roberts |
02 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| BBC takes a closer look at the Hy-Wire, GM's hydrogen fuel cell car. According to the incredulous host, it's 'the future. |
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| Topics: cars, hydrogen, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Taking the long way home: What's wrong with the hydrogen path
Warning: techno-engineering speak ahead |
Gar Lipow |
24 Dec 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Amory Lovins is rightfully admired by environmentalists. But nobody is right all the time, and the hydrogen path is one of his few mistakes. He summarizes his argument for hydrogen in Twenty Hydrogen Myths (PDF). More extensive discussion is embedded in his book Winning the Oil Endgame (book-length PDF). His basic proposal: Since most gas stations already have access to natural gas, put natural gas reformers in enough stations to make sure everyone has access to ... |
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| Topics: Amory Lovins, cars, energy, hydrogen, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Hydrogen Hopes
BMW to put a few hydrogen cars on the road next year |
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13 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Hydrogen Hopes BMW to put a few hydrogen cars on the road next year The cars of the future are here! Sorta. BMW announced yesterday that it will distribute about 100 hydrogen-powered 7-Series sedans to select drivers in the U.S. and E.U. in early 2007. The cars, which can travel about 125 miles before switching to gasoline, maintain BMW's sporty image: they go from zero to 62 in 9.5 seconds, with a top speed of 143 mph. The 7-S ... |
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| Topics: hydrogen, news, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Heaven Help Bus
A visit to Iceland spurs dreams of a hydrogen future |
Bill McKibben |
19 Jul 2005 |
Soapbox |
| The loneliness of the long-distance rider. I have seen the future, and it works. The 111 bus rolls quietly up to the Mjodd terminal in eastern Reykjavik at 11:19 a.m., and I climb aboard. For 45 minutes, we cruise through the suburbs and then to the central square downtown, picking up and discharging eight passengers along the way. Fuel cells that would have filled the space of several passenger ... |
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| Topics: hydrogen, Iceland, placemaking, public transportation, travel (all these topics) |
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The Three Marketeers
Emily Gertz watches the suits pitch to the T-shirt crowd at Verdopolis |
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11 Feb 2005 |
Dispatches |
| Emily Gertz is a regular contributor to WorldChanging.com, and an internet content and strategy consultant for nonprofits. She has written on environmental policy for BushGreenwatch, and on the intersections of environment, culture, art, and activism for The Bear Deluxe and other independent alternative publications. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Friday, 11 Feb 2005 NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. How do we pay for the energy ... |
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| Topics: Dispatches, environmental planning, hydrogen, New York, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Next and the City
At Verdopolis, Emily Gertz learns how to make cities more like zoos |
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10 Feb 2005 |
Dispatches |
| Emily Gertz is a regular contributor to WorldChanging.com, and an internet content and strategy consultant for nonprofits. She has written on environmental policy for BushGreenwatch, and on the intersections of environment, culture, art, and activism for The Bear Deluxe and other independent alternative publications. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Thursday, 10 Feb 2005 NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. One fact is being repeated by sp ... |
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| Topics: Dispatches, environmental planning, hydrogen, New York, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Chillin' Verde
Emily Gertz sends dispatches from Verdopolis, a confab on future green cities |
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09 Feb 2005 |
Dispatches |
| Emily Gertz is a regular contributor to WorldChanging.com, and an internet content and strategy consultant for nonprofits. She has written on environmental policy for BushGreenwatch, and on the intersections of environment, culture, art, and activism for The Bear Deluxe and other independent alternative publications. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Wednesday, 09 Feb 2005 NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. This morning, taking in ... |
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| Topics: Dispatches, environmental planning, hydrogen, New York, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Sunflower Power
Scientists Create Hydrogen Fuel from Sunflower Oil |
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26 Aug 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Sunflower Power Scientists Create Hydrogen Fuel from Sunflower Oil British scientists have discovered a way to power cars with sunflower oil. While biodiesel cars that directly burn cooking oil are fairly common, researcher Valerie Dupont and her colleagues have something else in mind, as they reported this week at an American Chemical Society conference. They've figured out a way to use catalysts to extract pure hydrogen from a com ... |
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| Topics: hydrogen, placemaking (all these topics) |
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The Beat of a Different Hummer
Schwarzenegger's 'Green Hummer' plan sparks cultish following |
Amanda Griscom |
29 Apr 2004 |
Powers That Be |
| Schwarzenegger's "Green Hummer" plan sparks cultish following By Amanda Griscom 29 Apr 2004 Does this look green to you? The Hummer has come to be associated with a number of things -- steroid-addled egomaniacs, over-compensating suburban dads, the highway to global-warming hell, even Monica Lewinsky's antics in the Oval Office ... But eco-friendly driving isn't one of them. Unless, of course, you travel in the "Green Hummer" underground, qui ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, cars, hydrogen, placemaking, politics (all these topics) |
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The Hydrogenator
California Governor Gives a Boost to Hydrogen Infrastructure |
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21 Apr 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| The Hydrogenator California Governor Gives a Boost to Hydrogen Infrastructure California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is trying to kick-start the so-called hydrogen revolution. Yesterday, he signed an executive order establishing a public-private partnership aimed at building a network of some 200 hydrogen fueling stations in the state by 2010, at an estimated cost of $10 ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, cars, hydrogen, innovation, placemaking, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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Fuel Speed Ahead
How Ballard is leading the charge to spread fuel cells far and wide |
Tom Koppel |
30 Jun 2000 |
Arts and Minds |
| "Our long-term goal is very simple," said California Gov. Gray Davis (D) outside the state capitol in Sacramento in April 1999. "Zero emissions in the air. Zero. Nada. Nothing. Zip." A crowd had gathered to hear Davis announce a major new state initiative, and to see the latest non-polluting automobiles to be unveiled by DaimlerChrysler and Ford. Running on electrici ... |
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| Topics: hydrogen, placemaking (all these topics) |
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