A new project was launched yesterday with the aim of bring hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles to the UK.
Launched at the Royal Society, thirteen industry participants, three government departments and the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding agreeing to share knowledge and expertise in an effort to evaluate the potential for hydrogen as a fuel for so-called "Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles" in the UK before developing an action plan for an anticipated roll-out to consumers in 2014/15.
The UK's first hydrogen refuelling station has been opened in ... Swindon. Hmmm.
The UK's first hydrogen refuelling station has been opened in ... Swindon. Hmmm.
The press release describes it as a "collaborative" effort between the British Oxygen Company, Forward Swindon economic initiative and Honda, who's absolutely brillaint FCX fuel cell powered family saloon has been featured within the pages of the UK Column a number of times.
Honda is hoping that the station will serve as an example of the public-private-partnerships necessary to rollout the necessary infrastructure to support their hydrogen cars nationwide.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that those pushing global warming are correct. Let's say that we are, in fact, all going to die as a result of carbon dioxide emissions from power generation and transporting goods. Go on, you can suspend your disbelief long enough to read this, can't you?
When humanity faces a problem such as that, imagined or not, there are two main approaches we could take to solving it.
1. We could stop doing the things that cause the problem, or
2. We could find some kind of technological solution to the problem.
These two approaches seem to map quite nicely onto the two political approaches considered in the Harmony of Interest, do they not?
