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California Drivers Can Tank Up WIth Hydrogen

Posted by timothy on from the loading-the-dice dept.

Country_hacker writes "News site TBO.com is reporting ChevronTexaco has opened a hydrogen fuel station in Chino, California, and has plans to open five more. Servicing three (or more) Hyundai SUVs, these prototype fueling stations are a part of a five-year cost-sharing program put on by the Department of Energy. Could this be the 'egg' in the alternate fuels 'chicken or egg?' scenario?"

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  1. Question by Frankie70 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why do you need 5 Service Stations for 3 SUV's? If this experiment succeeds, this country will be flooded with Hydrogen Service Stations?

  2. Re:just catching up with development elsewhere ... by Moofie · · Score: 1, Troll

    Considering that Germany is about the size of one of the medium-to-large states in the US, I think the problems of nationwide rollout are a little different.

    But hey, that doesn't feed the anti-American sentiment, so it must be wrong.

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    Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
  3. Somebody set us up the bomb by dbIII · · Score: 0, Troll
    1 cold war era nuclear bomb could potentially generate enough hydrogen to run the state of texas's autos for 2-3 months or more
    Somebody set us up the bomb - now all this hydrogen is belong to us.

    I wish the nuclear trolls would think for a quarter of a second before posting stuff like this - how do you go about turning a nuclear warhead into a hydrogen generating plant? I know nuclear is supposed to be inherantly safe and radiation does not exist in one worldview, but I myself like the laws of physics.