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| Posted Jul 26, 2005 PT |
HRL Labs looks to replace hybrid cars with hydrogen fuel cell technology
Hybrid cars are fast becoming America's way of dealing with soaring gas prices, but researchers at Malibu-based HRL Laboratories are looking to replace them by forging ahead with research into hydrogen fuel cell-powered engines, which could be on the market by 2010, reports Fuel Cell Works.
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Original news summary: (http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage3047.html)
- Behind the hydrogen-powered future is local Malibu-based HRL Laboratories, which is spearheading research on how to expand hydrogen fuel capacity in cars.
- One of the main benefits of using pure hydrogen (usually obtained from decomposition of methane, and sometimes from water using electrolysis) as a power source is that it uses oxygen from the air to produce only water vapor as exhaust, helping to significantly reduce the source of atmospheric pollution.
- While not a new concept-different variations of hydrogen-fuled vehicles have been in existence for decades and many high-speed race cars, submarines, buses and space rockets already run on hydrogen in various forms-it appears as if the technological development of the vehicle and rising consumer demand are on a collision course.
- According to a late-May article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, during a recent speech to the Automotive Press Association in Detroit, Ballard Power Systems Chief Executive Dennis Campbell predicted that commercially viable fuel cells could be on the market by 2010.
- Helping lead the development of the hydrogen car is HRL Laboratories, a Malibu-based research company that is investigating solid-state hydrogen storage.
- For more than a half century, HRL has been at the forefront of research in fields such as microelectronics, phototonics, and information and system sciences.
- "The Holy Grail has always been to make a solid-state sponge that would take up hydrogen and could release hydrogen," HRL lab director Leslie Momoda said.
- "[Metal hydride storage] has the best shot at meeting the Department of Energy's specifications and requirements for fuel-celled vehicles," Momoda said.
- The company has been affiliated with GM since 1985 and has been working on a variety of hydrogen-storage systems for seven years.
- GM Vice President Larry Burns has said his company is committed to supplying market-ready, fuel-celled vehicles by 2010.
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