Fuel, Eagles, Fuel - US DOE

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Fuel, Eagles, Fuel

Energy.gov | OCTOBER 24, 2024 | Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently capped its celebration of National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day with an end-zone dance. On Oct. 11, 2024, representatives from DOE, the Philadelphia Eagles, PDC Machines, and several small businesses in the hydrogen and fuel cell industry gathered at Lincoln Financial Field to make use of the stadium's newest feature: a state-of-the-art hydrogen fueling station. This unit can produce up to 10 kilograms of hydrogen per day and support both fuel-cell-powered trucks and passenger vehicles.

Hydrogen fuel cell technology has immense potential to decarbonize the transportation sector. Clean-burning hydrogen allows vehicles to operate on the same scale of time and distance as their gas-powered counterparts, while generating no pollution and only water vapor at the tail pipe. As with all electric vehicles, drivers also benefit from higher torque, lower maintenance costs, and a range of tax benefits.

The Eagles' new fueling station, known as SimpleFuel and developed by PDC Machines, is the latest in a series of green initiatives undertaken by the organization. The Eagles' stadium complex is coated with more than 10,000 solar panels, and the electricity they produce flows directly to the SimpleFuel unit, making the Eagles the first professional sports team in North America to make use of clean hydrogen that is produced on site.

Representatives from DOE's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO), PDC Machines, and the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field. From left to right: Elizabeth "Ebby" Brennan, fellow, HFTO; Dr. Sunita Satyapal, director, HFTO; Nick Michaels, director, corporate partnership at Philadelphia Eagles; Dr. Shaylynn Crum-Dacon, technology manager, HFTO; Caitlyn Ott, corporate partnership activation associate at Philadelphia Eagles; Jesse Goldberg, marketing associate, PDC Machines, LLC.

The visit to Eagles' stadium was the culmination of a long and fruitful collaboration between DOE and the minds behind SimpleFuel. It began in 2017, when three companies, including PDC, hatched an idea for a simple, small-scale hydrogen fueler that uses only water and electricity to produce hydrogen. In 2017, the SimpleFuel concept claimed the $1 million prize in DOE's H2 Refuel H-Prize Competition. On the strength of this new funding and the validation of DOE experts, SimpleFuel made the leap from concept to commercialization. In the intervening seven years, PDC has brought SimpleFuel to both domestic and international markets, growing from a small business to an important player in the clean hydrogen technology industry. ..more
https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/fuel-eagles-fuel


"A simple, small-scale hydrogen fueler that uses only water and electricity to produce hydrogen"

April 2022

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1. Hydrogen fuel cell technology is dependent on platinum and Nalfion fluorocarbon polymers, making it even more...

...unsustainable and dirty than hydrogen itself, and hydrogen is already a filthy fuel made overwhelming by the steam reforming of dangerous fossil fuels, and sold only for the purpose of greenwashing fossil fuels.

There isn't enough platinum on this planet to make any more than demonstration toys to rebrand the fossil fuels from which hydrogen is made.

A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.

When, as in the case of the one million dollar fuel cell bus explosion in California, the dangerous fuel ignites, the residue of fluorocarbons from the heated fuel cells leaves the persistent perfluoroalkyl substances behind as a permanent contamination.

Fuel cell bus in California destroyed after explosion during refuelling.

The end result of this half century old failed shell game is to simply make things worse, and of course, this, and similar scams put forth to entrench the use of dangerous fossil fuels has largely succeeded. Since the publication of the first issue of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy in 1976, the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide has risen from 329.41ppm in week 41 in 1976 to 422.45 ppm in week 41 of 2024.

This fossil fuel rebranding shell game is not only useless; it's dangerous and extremely dirty.