Burlington, VT Embraces Its First Hydrogen Station City also welcomes 'green' addition to fleet 7/4/2006 Lauren Ober, Burlington Free Press http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pb...EWS01/607040312 Excerpt: The city welcomed New England's first hydrogen fueling station with much fanfare Monday. As a crowd of about 50 people admired the new fuel pump and hydrogen production plant at Burlington Electric Department on Pine Street, Rep. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., drove up in the state's first hydrogen-powered vehicle, which will use the station to fill up. With Sanders, who helped secure a $1 million Department of Energy grant for the project, behind the wheel, the retrofitted 2005 Toyota Prius cruised up to the pump without a sound for the unveiling. Project coordinators then demonstrated the new pump, topping off the car's fuel tank with hydrogen...
Why? What is the benefit of hydrogen? The electricity consumed to create the hydrogen would be more efficiently used to power a plug-in hybrid instead. Then of course, you have to ask about cost. How much did that hydrogen cost and what was the MPG equivalent it delivered?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(john1701a @ Jul 4 2006, 09:17 AM) [snapback]281013[/snapback]</div> Quite a few are already running around in Socal here under AQMD. Last I heard, ~70 miles per tank. Note, this is only using the ICE to combust H2 and not a full-fuel cell system which could be more a bit more efficient.
The Prius will be on display at the Green Car and Transportation Festival in Ipswich, MA on July 29th ( www.IpswichRenewableEnergy.org ) Harold Garabedian, the Research Director for the sponsoring organization (eVermont) will give an indoor presentation about the car and the new fueling station. Come check it out.
