The Big Buy Strategy is a revolutionary low cost method of organizing Minnesota state and local government policy, local businesses, and the auto industry for jump starting the rapid commercialization of pollution free, hydrogen powered fuel cell cars and a refueling network on a massive scale. It’s about ending our oil dependency forever and the beginning of a new era of energy abundance and energy independence. It’s about discovering the magic of water and the power of the sun.
The Big Buy Strategy is about creating a large buying group of every level of state and local government to trade in some of their existing fleet cars for 10,000 new Ford Focus FCV’s (Fuel Cell Vehicle) that could be made at the Ford plant in St. Paul, (Unfortunately slated to be closing soon) and, set up small photovoltaically powered electrolyzers and hydrogen fuel dispensers at 2,000 private and public works facilities throughout Minnesota.
Every major car maker in the world has created successful demonstrations cars using hydrogen fuel cell technology. The three big leaders are Honda, GM, and Ford. Honda and GM have started the first large scale beta testing with Honda leasing 200 cars, all in Southern California, and GM leasing about 100 with most in California and a few in Washington DC and New York City. Ford has a 30 car demo fleet that it’s been sending to cities around the globe for 5 years. California has less than 30 refueling stations.
Most people are not well informed about hydrogen powered cars so let me start with a quick introduction. Hydrogen powered fuel cell cars are the ultimate green driving machine with zero pollution. Fuel cells cars are electric cars. There is no combustion. No pistons. A powerful electric drive motor uses electricity made from hydrogen gas acting as a giant battery holding enough power to travel hundreds of miles without refueling. Plus the refueling only takes a couple of minutes and it’s just like filling up with gas except the hose has a locking device onto your car.
At its simplest, you split apart water into oxygen and hydrogen with natural electricity and then put it back together inside a fuel cell and in doing so you make electricity, heat, and water that’s clean enough to drink. Have you seen the video of Jay Leno, drinking the exhaust water from a fuel cell car that he was driving around. (see on You Tube)
Fuel cells allow you to store the temporary electrical power generated by the sun (photovoltaics) or the wind by using that “natural” electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The positively charged hydrogen gas acts like a big powerful battery that you can use whenever you want. Fuel cells generate electricity continuously as long as you keep feeding it hydrogen fuel. Fuel cells can be made tiny enough to run calculators and large enough to power a hospital. Fuel cells can heat and power your home. Fuel cells are currently powering cars, buses, ships, submarines, planes and even our astronauts including providing their clean drinking water as the “waste or pollution”
Every major car maker in the world has already created successful demonstration models of these pollution free fuel cell cars. Just a few months ago, the 9 largest car makers in the world drove their hydrogen powered demonstration cars from Maine to Los Angles in a stunning display of technological and design success. BMW, Chrysler Daimler, Ford, GM, Honda, Hyundai-Kia, Nissan, Toyota, and Volkswagen all showed off their latest and greatest models in the long drive across the nation, with many publicity stops along the way. The US Secretary of Transportation declared that the event’s huge success proved the reliability of the technology and its readiness for mass commercialization. Its time for us to stop testing, and time for us to start deploying these beautiful new cars.
This photo shows a hydrogen refueling station in California with electricity generated directly from sunshine powering electrolysis of water and storing the hydrogen right there in the canisters to the left. GM, Honda, and many other companies are now taking refueling to the next step and creating small appliances that create hydrogen so you can fill up at home in your garage. This is Critical. This technology forever separates the economic destinies of GM and Exxon.
So if the cars are so great and the refueling technology so cool, why don't we have these cars now? What's the hold up?
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