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November 21, 2007

Green Fast Food, Clean Fast Cars

Over at Ecotality Life today I've got one post about eco-friendly fast food, and another about the next Honda I'd like to own, a hydrogen fuel cell-powered sedan called the Honda FCX Clarity. Other recent posts look at "green" cosmetics, wind-powered web sites, and why Amazon's new "e-reader" digital book device isn't green enough. My complete Ecotality Life archive is here.


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From the Home Energy Stations link..."The Home Energy Station, which generates hydrogen from natural gas,..."

I have to subscribe to natural gas use to have my own Hydrogen filling station at home so I can brag that my car doesn't use fossil fuel? Bill, what am I missing here?

Solar good, natural gas bad. If it takes the whole roof of the house (like their cartoon), I doubt I could afford the panels, or the battery farm, or the $35k Honda.

Moving to California for this punishment is out of the question...

Posted by: Eric Holcombe at November 21, 2007 1:54 PM

Natural gas is significantly cleaner for the environment than burning gasoline. And the fuel-cell engine emits only clean water. I have no info on the energy cost per mile compared to gasoline or gas/electric hybrids.

Posted by: Bill Hobbs at November 21, 2007 7:56 PM

More significant, big agribusiness has its eye on the grease bucket too. Last November, chicken giant Tyson Foods announced it has formed a renewable-fuel division. Rival Perdue has said it is exploring the idea as well. Tyson harvests approximately 2.3 billion pounds of chicken, hog and animal fat from its operations each year. The fat could be converted into about 300 million gallons of fuel, according to the company.

Posted by: parkercute at November 22, 2007 4:47 AM

Okay then, it uses "significantly cleaner" fossil fuel.

It still requires fossil fuel for operation.

It's no different than saying an electric weedeater requires no fossil fuels - except for the coal we burn at the power plant to generate the electricity.

Posted by: Eric Holcombe at November 28, 2007 4:31 PM
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