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Hydrogen-Powered Heavy-Duty Truck Establishes New Threshold by Traveling 1,800 Miles on a Single Fill
Accelera by Cummins, funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, sets new Guinness World Record mark, emits zero carbon dioxide in the process.
Energy.gov | December, 17 2024
The U.S. Department of Energys (DOEs) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO) today highlighted a recent groundbreaking achievement in hydrogen-powered transportation: a prototype H2Rescue truck, built and powered by Accelera with funding support from DOE and other federal agency partners, last month established a new world record by traveling 1,806 miles on a single fill of hydrogen fuel.
The truck completed its record-setting journey in California and was closely monitored and validated by an adjudicator from Guinness World Records who confirmed the trucks hydrogen tank was sealed before the journey began. Powered by a Cummins Accelera fuel cell engine and a 250-kilowatt traction motor, the truck carried 175 kilograms of hydrogen and consumed 168 kilograms while navigating rush hour traffic, between 50 to 55 mph, on public roads, operating in temperatures varying from 60 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Accelera researchers confirmed that over the 1,800-mile trip, the hydrogen-filled truck emitted zero pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2), a stark contrast to the 664 pounds of CO2 a standard internal combustion engine vehicle would have emitted over the same distance.
Using hydrogen in this type of truckwhich is typically used in emergency response, military, and utility applicationscan displace approximately 1,825 gallons of fuel and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2.5 metric tons annually. This demonstration vehicle, weighing approximately 33,000 pounds, is the result of an innovative collaboration between Accelera, HFTO, DOEs Vehicle Technologies Office, the U.S. Department of Homeland Securitys Science and Technology Directorate, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the U.S. Department of Defense...more
https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/articles/hydrogen-powered-heavy-duty-truck-establishes-new-threshold-traveling-0
PortTack
(34,829 posts)Caribbeans
(1,038 posts)These naysayers have literally no idea that while they spout their FUD about H2, China is taking the lead.
For example, day after day after day people say H2 will never work for vehicles like trucks.
But- it is. And either they don't know or don't want you to know. It is really quite something to see.
patphil
(7,108 posts)All we have to do is develop a way to access and transport it to points of use.
Caribbeans
(1,038 posts)They know nothing about the fact that there are >800 miles of H2 pipes carrying hydrogen RIGHT NOW on the Gulf Coast
Air Products' U.S. Gulf Coast hydrogen network
https://microsites.airproducts.com/h2-pipeline/pdf/air-products-us-gulf-coast-hydrogen-network-datasheet.pdf
and the fact that China is building H2 pipelines to get the H2 from the West to the East.
China to Build World's Longest Hydrogen Pipeline to Transport Green Hydrogen
03/07/2024
https://www.pipeline-journal.net/news/china-build-worlds-longest-hydrogen-pipeline-transport-green-hydrogen
NNadir
(34,839 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 19, 2024, 06:23 AM - Edit history (1)
...and the environmental and economic cost to replace all the world's pipelines with those not subject to hydrogen embrittlement, the only purpose of which will be to greenwash fossil fuels, from which hydrogen is made.
These "people" object to ignorance and are familiar with something that fossil fuel marketeers like to avoid: Science. Being poorly educated marketeers they are completely unqualified to state what anyone else knows or doesn't know.
There are over 2.3 million kilometers of gas pipelines on this planet. Hyping 800 miles of specialized hydrogen piping in one of the world's largest natural gas producing regions - the association of hydrogen pipelines (for industrial captive use, not for fucking million dollar Potemkin hydrogen trucks) with a natural gas region is a result of the fact that hydrogen on this planet is overwhelmingly made, with exergy destruction - by steam reforming of dangerous fossil fuels, with the waste from the dangerous fossil fuels being dumped directly into the planetary atmosphere.
A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.
Is is really too much to assume that people are so stupid as to not see the reason for the association?
The problem with people running the marketing of fossil fuels and greenwashing them as "hydrogen" is that these people expect and thrive on making sure that "people know nothing." These people thrive on and promote ignorance.
If someone does know something, or even a great deal, the fossil fuel greenwashing squad rebranding them as "hydrogen" whine insipidly.
Speaking for myself, I have toured some very large industrial facilities where hydrogenations were conducted on a multi-ton scale. I have worked with chemical engineers all over the planet.
It's too bad for those whose who raison raison d'être is to sell a very bad idea to push a fossil fuel promoting agenda that there are people who know a great deal about energy, including the laws of thermodynamics.
brush
(58,018 posts)I mean we've all heard of the airship Hindenburg disaster.