Toyota wants you to meet an 'obsessed' hydrogen fuel cell engineer

[Peace Piper]

Toyota wants you to meet an 'obsessed' hydrogen fuel cell engineer
Danny King May 8th 2014 green.autoblog.com

Like a television-broadcasting company covering the Olympics, Toyota is looking to market its future in hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle production by taking the personal approach. In this case, the Japanese automaker is telling the backstory of Jackie Birdsall, an engineer at Toyota Technical Center who Toyota says is "obsessed" with fuel-cell technology

Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution

And now, as an engineer at Toyota Technical Center, Birdsall is "obsessed" with bringing fuel cell technology to the masses. But perhaps you need to be obsessed when you're trying to change the world. After all, revolutions don't blossom from complacency...

"So I can work on a car that has zero emission, that uses fuel you can make from any domestic resource, fills up in a matter of minutes and can completely replace the internal combustion vehicle?" She says. "I became obsessed."

There's that word.

"Right now, I have the best job in the world for me," she says. "I'm going to lose my mind when the first vehicle rolls off the production line. To be talking about a full commercial launch, that's pretty much the biggest victory I can have in my life."...​

Full article:
http://green.autoblog.com/2014/05/08/toyota-wants-you-to-meet-obsessed-hydrogen-fuel-cell-engineer/​

What does it sound like inside a Hydrogen Electric Car?



NO MORE PETRODOLLAR
Once people get that this is total energy independence maybe there will be more enthusiasm. Or, maybe not.

 

[FindLiberty]

Where does that hydrogen come from?
Oh, so that requires a coal fired or nuclear power plant nearby and yer good to go!

Good enough! Toyota engineering is top notch in any case.

A huge solar panel array would be an even neater way to charge it back up / crack water
into H2 and O, or just use lithium batteries.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

The more important hydrogen becomes, the easier it will become to crack.

 

[acptulsa]

There's a little hydro-electric power available here and there, too.

Wonder how this will set with the carbon credits crowd? Will there be a Fire Prevention Tax with all that oxygen being released (though, presumably, it will get recombined with hydrogen in these very engines)?

Pretty sure your friendly oil company isn't especially happy about all this...

 

[GunnyFreedom]

cracking hydrogen with power generated from a Liquid Fluoride Thorium reactor. In a little half-sunk elongated outhouse in everyone's back yard.... all the H2 and electricity you can use for 100 years.

 

[acptulsa]

What if we all wind up brain damaged?

Well, at least we'll have nice teeth.

 

[Peace Piper]

Where does that hydrogen come from?
Oh, so that requires a coal fired or nuclear power plant nearby and yer good to go!

Good enough! Toyota engineering is top notch in any case.

A huge solar panel array would be an even neater way to charge it back up / crack water
into H2 and O, or just use lithium batteries.

Hydrogen can come from different sources - but all of them domestic. No more oil!

For example, Hyundai is giving away hydrogen fuel to the first customers that lease the new Hyundai Hydrogen electric.
In this case, the hydrogen is made from sewage, something still in abundance in the US
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3027144/...-of-california-residents-and-the-fuel-is-free

Solar and wind can provide free electricity (after the equipment is paid for) to make hydrogen gas via electrolysis
Honda is way ahead: http://world.honda.com/FuelCell/SolarHydrogenStation/

The Honda Solar Gas station:

Other countries are also way ahead.

Like this:

Hydrogen energy storage: power ramp-up at the MYRTE test platform. "Since 1/2012, this platform has connected photovoltaic solar panels to a hydrogen-based storage system. By joining the power grid, this provides a solution to the problem of intermittency & makes it one of the rare installations.."
http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/...power-ramp-up-at-the-myrte-test-platform.html
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or this:

Siemens plans electrolyzer system to store wind power as hydrogen. The system, equipped with an electrolyzer from Siemens, will convert surplus electricity from wind farms to hydrogen. The hydrogen will then be stored locally in tankers or fed directly into the natural gas grid.
http://www.elp.com/articles/2014/05...r-system-to-store-wind-power-as-hydrogen.html
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And if you've got a particle accelerator you can store it in lithium hydride canisters.



You can make it with aluminum in a jar



Hydrogen changes the game. Big time.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

What if we all wind up brain damaged?

Well, at least we'll have nice teeth.

You shouldn't be sticking your tongue into nuclear reactors, silly. But at that point you'd probably have bigger issues...