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September 2006UPS Fleet of 1,500 Alt-Fuel and Hybrid Vehicles9/18/06 John Addison UPS delivers 15 million packages per day in over 200 countries. UPS has over 100,000 vehicles and 600 airplanes. UPS employs over 400,000 people. UPS is the ninth largest airline on the planet. They are experts at reducing the cost and fuel usage of moving millions of packages. Over 1,500 of those vehicles use alternative fuel, savings millions of gallons of oil and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Since 2000, UPS alternative-fuel vehicles have logged 108 million route miles. Complete Article $6 Billion Lost Betting on Natural Gas9/12/06 John Addison Amaranth Advisors is a hedge fund that keeps making front page news. It is trying to explain to investors how it lost $6 billion in one week betting that natural gas prices would rise. Gas prices fell. $6 billion is gone. Amaranth Advisors is a hedge fund with a trader who forgot to hedge. There are about five million natural gas vehicles in operation globally. There are about 150,000 natural gas vehicles in the USA. These vehicles consume 238 million gasoline gallon equivalents. That amount has doubled in only five years. CNG vehicles are popular in fleets that carry lots of people: buses, shuttles and taxis. Complete Article August 2006Plug-in Hybrids8/15/06 John Addison Get 100 miles per gallon (mpg) in your next car. If you are now only getting 20 mpg, getting 100 mpg would cut your gasoline bill 80%. Several future plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) will get over 100 mpg. If you own a Toyota Prius you can buy a conversion kit today and make your car a plug-in hybrid. Complete Article July 2006BP and GE Plan Multi-Billion Dollar Clean Hydrogen Power Plants7/20/06 John Addison BP and GE on July 18, 2006, announced plans to jointly develop and deploy 10 to 15 hydrogen power plants that dramatically reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from electricity generation. These electric power plants are clean alternatives to coal, nuclear and natural gas power plants. Each plant is likely to require an investment of $1 billion and create a new use of hydrogen – generating electricity on a large scale. Complete Article Los Angeles World Airports7/14/06 John Addison Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) opened the first public access hydrogen station in the nation in October 2004. The station supports the fleet of five hydrogen vehicles used daily near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). It is available to the growing hydrogen fleets at the City of Los Angeles, UCLA, Toyota, Honda, and soon others. It is part of the California Hydrogen Highway. For station funding partner, BP, this is part of their $8 billion investment in alternative energy. Industrial gas giant, Praxair, is the station operator. Complete Article June 2006CARB ZEB Program Would Add 1,000 Hydrogen Buses6/24/06 John Addison Leaders from public transportation, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), bus and fuel cell manufacturers meet on June 21 at the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) to discuss plans to have 1,000 hydrogen fuel cell buses in service in California. Currently there are eight. 1,000 hydrogen buses would result in over 400,000 daily riders on hydrogen buses and a demand for over 40,000 kg/day of hydrogen. Complete Article City of Santa Monica Opens Hydrogen Fueling Station, Electrolyzer and Fleet6/15/06 Air Products has joined the City of Santa Monica, Calif. and South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) in celebrating the official opening of a new hydrogen fueling station located at the Santa Monica City Yards. All stations in the AQMD five cities program are now open. Santa Monica adds five Quantum HICE Priuses to its fleet of 40 conventional Priuses. Cleanedge.com California Air Resources Board to Lease HICE Vehicles6/8/06
John Addison The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has posted
a notice of intent to award contracts for the lease of six vehicles that
will lower the cost of using hydrogen. Hydrogen will be used in conventional
engines, not fuel cells. This will expand to 37 the total number of hydrogen
internal combustion engine (HICE) vehicles in California.Other fleets
that each uses five of these Quantum Priuses include the cities of Riverside,
Burbank, Santa Ana, and Ontario. AQMD in Diamond Bar also uses five Quantum
Priuses. This June 15, Santa Monica will start using five. Mountain Home Wind-Power Plant will make Hydrogen6/14/06The nation's first commercial plant using wind power to produce hydrogen will be in Idaho. Synthetic Energy plans to use a combination of wind power and electricity to produce hydrogen that can be used in chemical manufacturing and oil and gas refining. Complete Article Cat Lift Trucks Purchases General Hydrogen Fuel Cell Pack6/12/06General Hydrogen Corporation has sold a Hydricity® Pack to Cat Lift Trucks of Houston, Texas, to be delivered in July, 2006. Cat Lift Trucks will be using the pack in a Class 1 battery-electric forklift. Complete Article United States Marine Corp Uses Hydrogen6/1/06 John Addison The United States Marine Corp (USMC), like all branches of the Department of Defense (DoD), is exploring the use of hydrogen and other forms of clean transportation. One major motivation is that the fuel which runs U.S. Defense operations comes from oil. That oil is increasingly controlled by countries that have declared their animosity to the United States. I recently spent over two hours at Camp Pendleton with Gary Funk, Regional Fleet Manager for Marine Corps West. Camp Pendleton follows the EPAC objective that 75% of commercial garrison mobile equipment purchases will be alt-fuel. Complete Article Ten Ways to Save Gasoline and Diesel6/1/06 John Addison Everyone can make a difference in achieving energy independence and a more healthy future. Consider these ten technologies the next time you select a vehicle for your fleet or personal use. Read about all of them. May 2006Cheap Hydrogen FuelGE says its new machine could make the hydrogen economy affordable, by slashing the cost of water-splitting technology. Among the challenges to replacing fossil fuels with hydrogen is how to make hydrogen cheaply in ways that don't pollute the environment. Splitting water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity from energy sources such as wind turbines is one possibility. Now researchers at GE say they've come up with a prototype version of an easy-to-manufacture apparatus that they believe could lead to a commercial machine able to produce hydrogen via electrolysis for about $3 per kilogram. Since fuel cells are more efficient than gasoline engines, this would make hydrogen less expensive than gasoline. Technology Review ArticleFeedback Loops in Global Climate Change Indicate Very Hot 21st CenturyU.C. Berkeley Professors Harte and Torn conclude "that
the upper value of warming that is projected for the end of the 21st century,
...could be increased to 7.7ºC [13.9ºF].” Studies have
shown that global climate change can set-off positive feedback loops in
nature which amplify warming and cooling trends. Now, researchers with
the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University
of California at Berkeley have been able to quantify the feedback implied
by past increases in natural carbon dioxide and methane gas levels. Their
results point to global temperatures at the end of this century that may
be significantly higher than current climate models are predicting. Report
Will Hydrogen Become Less Expensive?5/1/06 John Addison There is uproar over the cost of gasoline. A hydrogen future is being promoted as a way to end our dependency on oil, but will hydrogen ever be less expensive than gasoline? The long-term answer is yes. In Torrance, the major oil refiners use hydrogen to make our gasoline cleaner and high octane. In Torrance, there is a hydrogen pipeline. That pipeline is being extended to a new hydrogen fueling station, where hydrogen will be less expensive than gasoline. Hydrogen is expected to cost under $3 per gasoline gallon equivalent at the pump. Complete Article AC Transit Leadership with Hydrogen Buses and Cars
Linde to Buy BOC Group and Form a $12 billion GiantLinde AG made a pre-conditional cash offer to acquire the entire share capital of The BOC Group plc. The transaction will create a leading worldwide industrial gases and engineering group with combined gas and engineering sales of approximately Euro 11.9 billion. With the acquisition of BOC, Linde will in particular enhance its position in the fast growing Asian Pacific region and in key future growth sectors such as hydrogen. Complete Linde BOC Article
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5/1/06
John Addison The HyRoad program
is considered the most comprehensive hydrogen fuel cell demonstration
in North America. Over 1,000 riders per day in full service on 3 zero-emission
fuel cell buses. AC Transit supervisors will also use 10 zero-emission
Hyundai and Kia fuel cell cars.