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I'm not sure what counts as a 'standard' solar collector, but the hot-water system on my roof will easily get to 220 degrees C on a sunny summer's day. It's about 6 years old, so not exactly state-of-the-art any more."This set-up allows up to 95 percent of the sunlight to be absorbed with very little being lost as heat to the surroundings," Hotz said. "This is crucial because it permits us to achieve temperatures of well over 200 degrees Celsius within the tubes. By comparison, a standard solar collector can only heat water between 60 and 70 degrees Celsius."
220C, 428F???? That can't be right.
Infrastructure limitations may prevent manufacturers at first from rolling out fuel cell cars on the same wide scale as electric vehicles, but they will be on the streets in increasing numbers by 2015. They will tend to be larger and more high-end than the electrics, and they will have a bigger range, while battery electrics may be mainly city cars, Brock added.
The bottom line is, Hyundai — like Daimler and Honda — are optimistic the infrastructure issue will be sorted out. Company spokesman Christopher Hosford suggests starting with hydrogen stations along trucking routes. Do that, he says, and the rest of the country will follow.
Someone from Toyota GB PR decided to get involved with this on Twitter. Tweet up if you agree with this post: Twitter
BBC News - Is hydrogen the future of motoring?http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14979817
The BBC has put out an article about whether fuel cell cars are the future, blah, blah, blah. They've got a Professor Kendall saying H fuel cells will replace conventionally fuelled vehicles with "No emissions whatsoever", and that "Your electric battery car does 60 miles [100km], this does 300 miles. It fills in five minutes rather than five hours,". Also the CEO of Daimler chimes in along a similar line, "For battery electric vehicles, you'll need infrastructure that is probably more costly than hydrogen". Probably...
Personally (with a massive EV bias) I think most of the article is uninformed baloney (as per the usual BBC standard).
He's way too invested in H2 to give an unbiased opinion.Professor Kevin Kendall FRS has been researching hydrogen and fuel cells over the past 30 years. He was responsible for the first hydrogen filling station in England, to fuel hydrogen vehicles running on the Birmingham campus since March 2008. There are now four stations in the Midlands and there should be eight by 2012, with a prospect of hundreds of hydrogen hybrid vehicles by 2015. Support from many companies and funding agencies have made this possible, especially Microcab, RDM, EPSRC, TSB and AWM.