In Canada, sport and means of transport have environmental technologies combine to our delight!

During the Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010 (from February 12 to 28), 20 hydrogen buses boarded the public to Whistler mountain resort (where various competitions are held).

These buses ecologists have been concocted by a consortium including Canada’s Ballard is. They are equipped with a hydrogen engine, a fuel cell (housed on the roof) and an electric battery. It is the Canadian federal and British Columbia who funded the project of 89.5 million.

The fueling station, located in the municipal bus depot, has a capacity of 26 000 liters!

This fleet of 20 hydrogen buses will still be outstanding after the Olympics: good news, ticket prices will remain the same for users.

The price of a hydrogen-powered buses is 2 million Canadian dollars (cons 500 000 Canadian dollars for a traditional bus). A significant investment that is well worth it!

The organizers of the Olympics and the Whistler ski resort and want to limit the impact of transport on the environment.

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Mazda goes with the circle piston Wankel engine in the future and uses the rotary engine as an entry into the hydrogen age. How to drive the two prototypes Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen and Premacy Hydrogen Hybrid.

In Japan, the Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen has leased since 2006.  Athletes with mild grade: 109 hp must meet the prototypes.

The hydrogen rotary is conspicuous only by pasting on.

The prototype will demonstrate that hydrogen rotary engine and fit together well.

From the pipes flowing at RX-8 Hydrogen only water vapor.

The Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen was founded in 2003 at the Tokyo Motor Show presented.

Mazda uses the technique on tank vessels, the 350 bar handle. One filling is sufficient for approximately 100 kilometers.

The dual-fuel system makes changing the use of hydrogen and super gasoline possible.

The 105-liter tank H2 requires a complete boot.

Inside are Tankuhr except the second and the switch no difference to the production model to recognize.

Two ads for gasoline tank (five liters) and H2 (105 liters).

The hydrogen rotary with electric motor and lithium-ion battery makes the Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid to.

The hydrogen rotary hybrid provides powerful propulsion.

Mazda Premacy 5.

Given the high-pressure hydrogen tanks, the trunk shrinks to 230 liters.

The overall efficiency of the prototype is extremely low.

The drive of the Mazda Premacy Hydrogen Hybrid is that of the Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen in the shade.

Dre hydrogen Wankel has 350 Newton meter torque.

With hydrogen, the power is lower than with ordinary gasoline.

At the pump, there are expected differences.

Hydrogen pumps are rare in Norway.

The rotary engine is nothing to see, the high-performance electronic components dominate the engine compartment.

The Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid, two of seven seats to the hydrogen tank’s sake soft.

The graph shows the Wankel as electricity producers to charge the lithium-ion batteries.

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Take off with hydrogen: Driven solely by the energy of a fuel cell is an airplane for its maiden flight in Hamburg started. Researchers want to demonstrate that the technology for use in aviation is suitable.

The Antares DLR-H2 during its technical flight trial in June 2009 at Zweibrücken. The fuel cell is slung under the left wing and the hydrogen tank under the right wing – with a capacity of either 2 or 4.9 kilograms. The fuel cell system used to power the Antares delivers up to 25 kilowatts of electrical power, and when flying in a straight line, the aircraft only requires about ten kilowatts of power. In this situation, the fuel cell is operating at an efficiency level of approximately 52 percent.

Another new feature of the Antares is the way its fuel cell is connected to the main electric motor that powers the aircraft. The motor controller, developed jointly with Lange Aviation and with the College of Advanced Technology in Berne/Biel, is capable of taking in and controlling voltages from 188 to 400 V. Through the direct link between fuel cell and motor, efficiency is optimised while costs, reliability and maintenance costs are minimised.

The hissing white tank drops in aerodynamically favorable shape hangs under the wing of a glider. Antares DLR H2 is the Air Force, in a few minutes to the first official flight at the airport Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel will take off. It is the world’s first public flight of a single fuel cell-powered aircraft – and therefore sends Hamburg’s First Mayor Ole von Beust personally some Greetings. He says “It almost like the first flight of Yuri Gagarin into space”.

The DLR’s scientists will continue to work closely with Airbus and Lufthansa Technik cooperate. The technology-yard, the Antares DLR-H2, at the Lufthansa base in Hamburg will be stationed, technically supervise. The experimental fuel-cell makers of DLR, the Airbus A320 ATRA, a fuel cell in which the functions of the APU Hilfsgasturbine takes effect from the yard looks.

Source: DLR motor glider Antares takes off in Hamburg

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Engineers from the BMW developed a new cylinder head for hydrogen operation based on a production diesel engine. BMW designed high pressure injectors for direct injection of hydrogen into the combustion chamber with pressures of up to 300 bar, nearly 4500 psi. With the diesel base, however a much better efficiency, with the new technology reached 42 percent and this is on the level of conventional self-ignition. The series using the new technology are technical side, according to Development Director Falk Gerbig no insurmountable obstacles contrary.

The project H2BVplus, an H2-ignition combustion process as a possible cars propulsion of the future will be further investigated. With regard to performance and efficiency can be distinguished from conventional diesel interesting aspects derived. The H2-ignition concept is to increase the efficiency and specific performance is expected.

Still holds the BMW hydrogen combustion because of the relatively low technology and low cost space, particularly for a good alternative to hydrogen fuel cells

Source: BMW HYDROGEN ENGINE REACHES TOP LEVEL EFFICIENCY

H2BVplus Hydrogen Combustion Engine

H2BVplus Hydrogen Combustion Engine with Laser Measurement Equipment

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The ideas for affordable fuel cells are long in the drawer. For a small company from Switzerland that is primarily for the military operates. And in Geneva is in Hall 3.

Cheap plastic pots, a pathetic fountain, a red trash can on a green carpet. That’s what the Green Pavilion of Geneva. That’s what the Green Pavilion of Geneva. Where’s flawless prototype park should, just for a handful of small-town Mörchen, which look more like lawn mowers than CityCruiser. Where’s flawless prototype park should, just for a handful of small-town Mörchen, which look more like lawn MOWERS than CityCruiser. Actually, one would immediately go to the Greens, cucumbers, were it not for a small, inconspicuous fair sensation: the world premiere in the trunk. Actually, one would immediately go to the greens, cucumbers, were it not for a small, fairly inconspicuous sensational: the world premiere in the trunk. Unnoticed by the audience Alreda presents newcomers from Switzerland, the smallest and cheapest of the fuel cell world. Unnoticed by the audience Alreda presents Newcomers from Switzerland, the smallest and cheapest fuelcell the world. Alreda, behind this there are seven suppliers, otherwise your money with the vapor deposition of catalysts and car making. Behind this there are seven suppliers, otherwise your money with the vapor deposition of catalysts and car making. Main customer: the global military. Main customer: the global military.

Source: Technologie A9 – ALREDA

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