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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus In London

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus In London

It’s been such a good week for cleaner energy I can’t decide where to begin so I’ll quickly mention the three best things I saw all week (week and a half?).

In London, hydrogen might get a chance as they are beginning construction on filling stations making it possible to drive cross country in the hydrogen fuel cell vehicles most americans have never heard of. They’re aiming for completion before the 2012 Olympics.

Investment in clean tech start ups is up over 80% according to the Cleantech Group and Deloitte.

It seems the good people of Los Angeles will not need to wait for feed in tariff legislation that has fizzled in the house. The Los Angeles Business Council (LABC) recently released a study on cost-effective approaches to local solar energy generation through solar feed-in tariffs (FiT). The same sort of legislation that has fostered unimaginable success for clean tech in Germany.

Did I miss any more excitement this week?

Fuelling with hydrogen

This Tuesday ze’ Germans successfully put an airplane into flight powered by a hydrogen fuel cell.

  Antares DLR-H2
The First photo shows the fuel cell under the wing. It holds a modest 2 or 4.9 kg of hydrogen. The system delivers about 25 kw of power at takeoff, but the plane only requires about 10 kw when flying in a straight line.
What makes this exciting is the overall efficiency of the fuel cell. Standard combustion engines are so much heavier that they only contribute about half as much of their generated power to propulsion.

Read the original article at DLR Portal
DLR Portal – DLR motor glider Antares takes off in Hamburg – powered by a fuel cell