Hydrogen Fueling Stations Come East-Side, Yo
Recently, electric cars have been garnering a lot of attention. The development of sleek electric cars like the Tesla Roadster and the Audi e-Tron have no doubt fueled the fire of the popularity of the trend. But research and development of hydrogen-fueled cars hasn't died out yet. Most of the work is being done and progress being made in California, where an infrastructure of hydrogen fueling stations already exists, making the idea of a hydrogen-fueled car more practical than imaginary. But what if the east coast, with all of it's intellectual strength, joined in on the quest for the hydro-mobile? It couldn't hurt, right?
That's exactly how the Connecticut-based SunHydro feels. Their grand vision is to build a string of hydrogen fueling stations that will start in Portland, Maine, and snake down the length of the East Coast, ending in Miami. The eleven proposed stations would all be driven by solar power, using the harvested energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
The technology that SunHydro hopes to use in its stations comes from Proton Energy, and will cost a pretty penny - each station will cost whatever private funder that's willing to shell out the cash approximately $3 million. So far, SunHydro hopes to have a station in the following cities: Portland, Maine; Braintree, Massachusetts; Wallingford, Connecticut; South Hackensack, New Jersey; Claymont, Delaware; Richmond, Virginia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia; and Orlando and Miami, Florida.
As promising as this sounds, does anyone else get a feeling of deja vu? Hasn't hydrogen been used before with some sort of vehicle?
Source: Wired
