A Week Without Dinosaurs - very electric toothbrush

An ancient Hindu myth holds that the world is riding on the back of an elephant.
The Yi lokui thought it was a turtle.
In the age of science, we know the difference is that it is a dinosaur. Fossil fuel--
Coal, oil and gas, the buried reply of life on Earth, are forming millions of years-
Providing most of the world's energy, 85% of the $411 BTUs consumed in 2002.
As for transportation, in addition to bicycles and nuclear submarines, almost all machines that fly, float or roll are driven by oil.
And then the car: a borrowed Honda FCX, a fuel-
Electric operation of solar powered batteries
Hydrogen generated.
When other commuters continue to pour gas, a week-
The most troublesome liquid in the world-
On the neck of their cars and trucks, I was the most important.
I'm running a drug.
California sunshine grade: hydrogen produced by experimental solar energy
Power station developed by Honda;
Facilities in Torrance, United States
I didn't use fossil fuel, I was filled with divine light.
I'm greener than you.
When I was stuck in traffic on the Santa Monica Highway and the rolling skyline in the haze, I had a clear conscience and clarity.
I climbed down from the back of the dinosaur.
This is a tough year for car enthusiasts.
As early as 2003, automotive technology was about who would make the first 1,000-
The horsepower supercar and whether the automatic parking assist will help Hummer owners bring their monster in and land.
Those are good times. -before $2.
Gasoline is $50 a gallon, before America. S.
Many people suspect that the invasion of Iraq is an oil adventure disguised as a country. building.
The measure of car technology at that time was a few miles per hour.
It's miles a gallon now.
We are caught in a kind of cold and stingy.
We have become energy geeks.
From a mathematical point of view, the system we want is actually closed.
As of the time of writing, the price of a barrel of sweet crude oil hit a record $45, and world oil production is growing at full speed.
Tight oil supplies have hampered economic growth at home and abroad.
We are hovering at the peak of habbert's oil production, named after Dr. geophysical scientist. M.
It is predicted that the world's oil reserves will begin to dry up in the first decade of the 21 st century.
Compared with the United States, Asia spends about 13 million barrels a day. S.
Consumption is about 20 million per day.
By 2025, Asian oil consumption is expected to double, and China alone will have more cars and trucks than the United States.
The sky is definitely the limit.
Since the Clean Air Act was enacted in 1970, automobile exhaust emissions in the United StatesS.
It has been reduced by 90%, but these increases have been offset by more cars and more driving.
According to the ground transportation policy program, air quality in many cities has actually gotten worse in the past decade, which estimates the public health cost of transportation
Related emissions exceed $40 billion a year.
The more you know, the worse you feel.
It's easy to laugh at a rich post-Industrial Life-
Commute by plane-
A conditional car is half the size of our ancestors.
Hunger march through the Plains-
But we oil consumers know a special pain.
We have learned to internalize a lingering guilt that responds to the psychological wind that accelerates towards destruction at 80 miles an hour.
This anxiety is a background noise that you may not realize unless you suddenly find yourself out of the problem like I did.
In the first 10 minutes of driving solar energy
Hydrogen FCX, I have an experience that can only be compared to tinnitus healing.
Suddenly, silence.
Most car manufacturers have fuel.
Cell carrier research program.
Honda's plans are certainly state-of-the-art.
Company's FCX fuel-cell car--
The first of its kind to be certified to zero
Emissions Vehicles for EPA and CARB-
Sweeping the fuel race last year-efficient cars.
Honda released its own proprietary fuel this year. stack design (the fuel-
Battery units in test vehicles are manufactured by Ballard, Canada).
The fuel efficiency of the new unit has increased by 20%, the construction cost is lower, and it is more cold-resistant (
Fuel cells easily freeze in low temperature weather).
FCX is very solid for fuelcell car.
When other manufacturers allow journalists to drive fuel
Cell cars, if something goes wrong, are usually followed by a minivan full of doctoral degrees.
Honda threw you the key.
Currently, there are five FCXs for rent to the city of Los Angeles for administrators to use and they are only given regular care and maintenance.
Honda vice president of R & D Ben Knight met with me on Monday morning; America.
He explained physics to me in kindergarten.
Tall and elegant, the knight is probably the smartest person I 've ever seen, a calculus-in-his-
The ability to view complex engineering systems and see the type of head of the force and flux field in them, such as the machine code where the character Neo sees the matrix.
Honda has adopted a comprehensive approach to fuel, he said.
Battery technology includes not only vehicles, but also infrastructure, production, storage and supply of hydrogen.
The goal is to eliminate fossil fuel, exhaust gas and greenhouse gas emissions in the automotive cycle.
Honda is also solving the trickiest problem of all: where to get hydrogen.
One interpreter: hydrogen is very affectionate, and the combination with a variety of other elements and compounds is very confusing.
To use it as a fuel, it must be liberated from chemical entanglement.
In fact, the most concentrated source of hydrogen is hydrocarbons (uh-
Oh, the dinosaurs show their ugly heads).
Almost all commercial hydrogen is formed by processing or "reforming" fossil fuel raw materials (usually natural gas.
Leased to the city FCXs for natural fuel
Gas renovation station of city motor vehicle pool.
As hydrogen skeptics eagerly point out, this approach has little to no effect on reducing dependence on fossil fuels, and it has created another problem.
Once you extract hydrogen from hydrocarbons, how do you deal with carbon, the main ingredient in greenhouse gases?
Carbon fixing technology-
Where carbon is sprayed somewhere, maybe underground, maybe under the sea ---
Is by untested theory and small-
Scale experiment.
So hot scream
Fundamentally, the magic of Futurist Imagination is a system: a fuel-
Battery car powered by hydrogen from renewable carbon
Neutral energy sources such as solar, wind or biomass. On the R&D;
Behind the facility is a sail.
Like Honda's solar hydrogen fuel station.
Its flank is blue.
Black stretch photovoltaic (PV)
With an area of about 700 square feet of panels, tilted 35 degrees, it is the best angle for solar energy collection in Los Angeles latitude.
The panel generates an average of about 6 KW of electricity between sunrise and sunset.
Electricity is used for electrolysis of water supply. -
Separate it into a constituent gas of hydrogen and oxygen.
Of course, you can water with power from the grid, but this energy is mainly generated by coal. and gas-
Power plants with greenhouse gas emissions.
The dinosaurs are coming again.
Honda station produces about half a kilo of hydrogen a day, about three kilos.
5 kilograms per week, stored in high-pressure tanks.
Due to physical luck, 1 kg of the chemical energy of hydrogen is almost the same as a gallon of gasoline.
One mile for 2004 FCX-per-
According to the Environmental Protection Bureau, the KG efficiency is 46 roads in 51 cities.
The 2005 model with the improved fuel cell is rated at 62 kilometers per kilogram and 51 miles per hour.
Knight said the goal is to build a power station that can generate enough hydrogen to power the FCX 10,000 miles a year, or about 200 miles a week, the average level of American home vehiclesS.
While Honda's Sun pump is cool, it's by no means a relief from dinosaurs --trodden world.
First of all, even in sunny California, it will take a week to build a hydrogen fuel for a week.
On the other hand, millions
Dollar factory is Pentagon.
The way hydrogen is made.
"It's very expensive," said Amory B . "
The lowmountain mountain Institute is an energy think tank in Colorado.
"Although this may change, the power grid will be much cheaper.
Renewable hydrogen will be available from wind power faster than PV. " (
Honda is also windy-
Hydrogen station on Yakushima Island, Japan. )
FCX in a family of four
The seat coupe looks like a corrective shoe, the most exotic vehicle I 've ever driven, and the most expensive;
$2 per serving-
Million science program
Then the range: downwind and feathers-
The 2004 FCX has the largest mileage of 170 miles.
The new car will travel about 190 miles, still well below the industry benchmark of 300 miles.
However, while Honda took all the responsibility, it showed great hope.
"What it says is that these technologies are effective," said John Turner, chief scientist at the Golden State Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado.
"The problem of cost and efficiency can be solved in the future.
Engineer Steven Mathison pushes the spring to supply the hose
Load coupling on the car refueling nozzle and turn the valve.
This is not more complicated than filling up with premium.
Looking at the digital reading, he loaded more than 3 kilograms of hydrogen at a speed of about 4,400 psi. -
Not a very full tank. I turn the key.
There's a popping behind--
Tank solenoid open.
The car's glowing instrument shows the wake-up message "fuel cell power supply.
"Then," the system checks.
"In the last 8 seconds, when the air pump pressurizes the fuel system and humidifier, there is a spin sound at the foot.
The sensor went online.
Then, ready to drive. " Unlike a gas-
The FCX sits quietly like a golf cart until the accelerator pedal is pressed.
I pull the floor-
Install the shift gear into the drive and push the throttle.
The FCX has all the brave exhaust sounds of an electric toothbrush.
Or is this the music of the sphere?
When I was driving away, a strange roar came.
I'm from jet-
Dragsters, who powered NASCAR stoc and Petrolum, have been my silent, smoky partner.
Now, I'm running on pure hydrogen, the essence of the transformation of the Sun itself!
I am a pagan god of personal flow.
The week passed quickly without drama.
One day I drove 50 miles to Brea and after returning home I met an epic SigAlerts in the west of 60. The FCX--
Like Toyota Prius and Honda's own hybrid. -
Enter hibernation when it does not move.
Still, the trip to Brea is taking in more hydrogen than I planned.
When I set out the next day to go to Torrance to refuel, the LED fuel gauge showed only three bars--
About a tenth of the tank.
The FCX has an "Energy Management display" that shows the hydrogen flow rate and power supply from the FCX ultra-
The capacitor is a high
High-tech batteries that help drive the motor at high loads.
When you accelerate,
Cap "releases the necessary power and displays the fan in the yellow LED light.
When you brake or coast, the car uses its regenerative braking system to recover energy and store it as electricity, and the yellow light goes out in the opposite direction.
My whole trip was focused on the Energy Management display, drawing the last bit of mechanical energy from my meager reserves so as to tease the yellow lights.
I turn off the AC and keep it stable 60 miles per hour-
This is a death.
110 in the middle of the day.
FCX, a zero
Drain the vehicle, was allowed to use the HOV lane, but I regret moving in when I was stuck between my head
High concrete walls.
This is not the place to run out of fuel, AAA trucks will not have hydrogen in Jerrican. Two bars. One bar. I'm panicked.
I walked through 405 metres and did my best to slide.
When I arrived at Honda's R & D center;
Center, FCX runs in smoke.
But it always does.
The federal government, the European Union, automakers, oil companies and many other countries are spending billions of dollars to develop the hydrogen economy.
This is not enough. Fuel-
The cell system is still impractical and expensive, as well as bulky, short
Sensitive to cold temperatures.
No one has cheap, practical carbon.
A neutral means of producing a sufficient amount of renewable hydrogen to reach a certain hydrogen critical point.
No white knight can kill dinosaurs.
But with good luck, we can stick to it. *(
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Working Principle: Honda's fuel-
The FCX carries a 156 battery FCXThe.
6 liters of compressed hydrogen (about 3. 75 kilograms)
In two aluminum cans about the size of a beer barrel.
These tanks are almost indestructible, and in any case the density of gas hydrogen is so low that it rarely explodes in the atmosphere.
Fuel Cell is a concert.
Forming device combining hydrogen and atmospheric oxygen under pressure.
The by-products of this chemical reaction are electricity, heat, pure H2O, which flows out of the tail tube.
No other emissions.
The peak output of the fuel cell is 78 KW, or enough to power 78 hair dryers.
This power drives the motor of the moving vehicle and helps
Capacitor, high
When the vehicle is loaded, as a scientific battery of an electric reservoir--
Such as acceleration--
More than the energy generated by the fuel cell.
Honda likes it
Because it provides faster, higher discharge and charging voltage.
Other car companies that use nickel
The hydrogen battery used for this purpose, the charging speed is slow, but the holding time is longer.