{"id":149405,"date":"2010-01-07T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hydrogencarsnow.com\/blog2\/?p=948"},"modified":"2010-01-07T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T15:08:00","slug":"hydrogen-cars-tangled-in-red-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/149405","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen Cars Tangled in Red Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Getting hydrogen cars on the road in mass quantities has been no easy task. There have been many bumps in the road, so to speak, along the way and this trend will continue.<\/p>\n

Even though hydrogen cars have been around for a couple hundred years<\/a> now, preceding the gasoline engine, people and governments seem to be largely uneducated about how the gas should be handled. And when a government doesn\u2019t know how to handle something \u201cunusual.\u201d<\/em> like hydrogen they tend to throw out a safety net of \u201cred tape\u201d to surround it.<\/p>\n

Mike Strizki got a taste of this when he was trying to build his hydrogen-solar home<\/a> in New Jersey. The different state agencies had no building or safety codes for handling hydrogen, so they bogged him down in red tape until they could catch up. At one point, Mr. Strizki said about one of the agencies in frustration, \u201cThey\u2019re worried about the deer running into the tanks\u201d referring to the 200 psi hydrogen tanks in his backyard.<\/p>\n

But, the U. S. isn\u2019t the only place where red tape is holding back hydrogen. In the UK<\/a>, Revolve Technologies is finding out that current British law blocks the use of \u201cnew fuel\u201d vehicles on the road. One branch of the UK government, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has promoted hydrogen vehicles as a clean alternative to those burning fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

But, not all of the UK\u2019s government agencies have been brought up to speed. According to Revolve\u2019s technical director, Paul Turner, \u201cWe didn\u2019t realise when we began the hydrogen programme that we were pioneering not just a new technology but new legislation too. We have worked closely with a number of government departments to identify key issues and help them to develop a new series of regulations which can accommodate the safe storage, handling, dispensing and use of this exciting new carbon free fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, the \u201cnew carbon free fuel\u201d part isn\u2019t exactly accurate as it has been around a couple of centuries as previously pointed out. But, what is new is the renewed interest in this old fuel for powering vehicles and the new rules and regulations that must be created to modernize how we think about alternative fuels.<\/p>\n

In some ways, breaking the bureaucratic red tape will be like breaking one of the many finish lines that hydrogen cars have to burst through on the way towards mass commercialization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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