How Hydrogen Fuel Is Made

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This episode of DNews is brought to you by
Toyota’s Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, Leave
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your mark.
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Toyota, let’s go places.
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It's 2015, Hollywood prophecy says we should
have flying cars, and though we don't have
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those… how about hydrogen cars?
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Fueling your car with hydrogen is weird.
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Hydrogen, number 1 on the periodic table.
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It's a powerful combustible element, it blew
up the Hindenburg after all!
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But it's also part of water, and carbohydrates,
and so many other things in nature.
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The thing is… hydrogen is a lot of things,
and IN a lot of things, because it's a super
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simple element; one proton, one electron and
it makes up SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT of the universe.
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Yeah, three quarters of everything is hydrogen.
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Hydrogen is used for food processing, petroleum
refining and in a variety of industrial applications.
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The U.S. already creates more than 9 million
metric tons of hydrogen annually!
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So I say again, fueling your car with hydrogen
is weird, but not THAT weird.
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You've probably heard of hydrogen fuel cells,
they've been around for a while.
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They were first invented in 1839.
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They use oxygen and hydrogen to power a car
with no moving parts, and only emit clean
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water vapor when burned.
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And according to many car companies, 2015
might be the year the rubber meets the road
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for hydrogen as a fuel.
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When you think of creating hydrogen, you probably
think of this[a] but 95 percent of America's
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hydrogen is produced using natural gas steam
reformation.
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Factories use high temperatures and pressures
to break the natural gas into hydrogen (YAY!)
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and carbon oxides (BOO!).
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You can also make it using electrolysis -- essentially
running electricity through water to split
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the hydrogen from the oxygen!
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Two great things!
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But something has to GENERATE that electricity,
and in the U.S., that's usually coal power.
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But if we used wind, or solar -- then we'd
be onto something.
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Once it's made, it has to be cooled and stored,
which uses MORE fossil fuel energy; and then
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you have to ship it to pumping stations using
trucks and trains… you get it.
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The HYDROGEN is great, but we suck at making
it and moving it around.
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For now we're stuck making hydrogen using
fossil fuels, which might not be ideal, but
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that could all change once hydrogen vehicles
get on the roads!
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Why buy a hydrogen car if there's nowhere
to fill it up!
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The government and private companies are partnering
to get fuel stations out there…
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California has a goal in place to have more
than 15 percent of all cars in the state be
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zero-emissions vehicles by 2025 -- and to
hit that goal they've pledged 200 million
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dollars to build 100 more fueling stations
before then.
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There are already 10, though I don't imagine
they're very busy since there aren't too many
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cars on the road yet, but that'll change soon
too.
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In tandem with this momentum, a bunch of auto
companies have pledged to release hydrogen
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fuel cell cars this year, and with 100 more
stations coming too, filling them up should
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be a cinch!
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According to research from the University
of California Davis, those 100 stations should
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be able to make fuel cell vehicles cost-competitive
with gasoline!
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We'd like to take a second and give a shout
out to Toyota for supporting DNews.
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They were at CES this week and released their
patents for new fuel-cell technology, and
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revealed THEIR fuel cell car to the world,
the Mirai.
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They’re hoping these royalty-free patents
will spurn a hydrogen-fuel-based future and
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spent the last decade reducing the cost of
fuel cell production 95 percent.
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Have you ever seen a hydrogen fuel station?
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Would you want a
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hydrogen car?
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