Delaware business: Hydrogen station expected in Claymont

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Delaware business: Hydrogen station expected in Claymont

Company working on network in East

By AARON NATHANS • The News Journal • March 19, 2010

Claymont is expected to receive the state's first public-usage, hydrogen-based auto fueling station.

The private company SunHydro reports it is building a "hydrogen highway," constructing 11 stations on the East Coast from Maine to Florida.

Hydrogen technology creates power as pressurized gas is fed into a fuel cell, creating a constant chemical reaction. That's different from electric vehicle technology, which stores power in a battery.

The company says it's working on matching California's numerous hydrogen refueling stations, which fuel demonstration vehicles that run from the Bay Area to Los Angeles.

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A Hydrogen Highway for the East Coast

By Keith Barry | January 27, 2010 | 8:00 am

One of the big issues facing hydrogen is just where we’re supposed to fill the cars that might run on the stuff. A Connecticut company is answering that question on the East Coast with plans for a “hydrogen highway” that will extend from Portland, Maine, to southern Florida.

California historically has been a hotbed of hydrogen research and development, but SunHydro wants to put the East Coast on the H2 map with 11 solar refueling stations. The self-contained stations use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water">electrolysis technology from Proton Energy that takes electricity generated from solar power and splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. The process results in considerably fewer emissions than the traditional methods of shipping hydrogen to fueling stations by truck or reforming it from natural gas.

“Our goal is to make it possible for hydrogen car to drive from Maine to Miami strictly on sun and water,” company president Michael Grey said.

For all the attention on electric cars these days, several automakers continue developing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Honda is especially enamored with the technology. General Motors put the http://www.wired.com/autopia/2008/03/we-drive-the-ch/">Chevrolet Equinox fuel cell vehicle in a few dozen driveways. Nissan is leasing a http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/11/nissan_xtrail_fuel_cell/">XTrail FCV truck to Coca-Cola. And Mercedes Benz will http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/12/mercedes-b-class-fuel-cell/">offer the F-Cell to “selected customers” in Europe and the United States this spring. Mazda and Volkswagen are among the technology’s proponents as well.

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