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It's starting to look like Hawaii could become a lot more famous than just for great surf, rain forests and buff fictitious police detectives. It's on the cusp of being known for hydrogen-powered cars.
General Motor is convinced that Hawaii is the place where it can make a stand for hydrogen power. It's announcing today that 10 companies, agencies and universities are joining together to try to make hydrogen cars an everyday method of transportation in five years.
They are being helped along by the islands' big utility, the Gas Co., which says it can easily create the equivalent of 7,000 gallon of gasoline a day. "This the most exciting thing that has happened in my career," says the Gas Co's CEO, Jeff Kissel.The difference: Hawaii makes synthetic natural gas from oil, and it's just as easy to make hydrogen too.
GM hopes to see a few dozen hydrogen cars coming to Oahu, but thinks down the line there could be many more. There will be an incentive for companies to bring them the islands if 20 or so fueling stations can serve the island. GM thinks it can produce fuel-cell powered cars in larger quantities by 2015, says Charlie Freese, GM's director of global fuel-cell activities.
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I really would like to know more on how this company produces it's hydrogen. They claim to be able to make it from oil, I wonder if that is as a by-product of a different process or
? Or how many 'equivalent' gallons of gas they are able to make from a barrel of oil. Very interesting either way, looking forward to finding out what GM has in store for this tech
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