Could this be a the way forward for us?
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nabsim
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As they did here Trev but Truss git it reinstated last week
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It's no fracking good for sure.
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JCB has designed the world’s first mobile site hydrogen refueller for its next-generation hydrogen-powered backhoe loaders and telehandlers.
Going green: New refueller truck will operate in same way as fuel bowsers servicing equipment around large construction sites
The plant manufacturer has designed the truck to refuel its prototype machines in the same way that fuel bowsers are used for diesel-powered equipment.
JCB is betting a £100m on its development project to produce super-efficient hydrogen engines for construction plant and has 100 engineers working on hydrogen power.
JCB chairman Lord Bamford, who is leading JCB’s hydrogen project, said: “Since we became the first construction equipment company to unveil machines powered by hydrogen, many have asked how they can be refuelled.
“Well today we have an answer with our new mobile hydrogen refuelling system, which allows hydrogen to be taken from on-site tube trailers and distributed to machines by our refueller as they work on the job site. This is no different to today when diesel is taken in bowsers to refuel machines.
“Fossil fuels are not the future and hydrogen is the practical solution to powering our machines in the decades to come. Our British engineers are doing a fantastic job in developing this technology and there are many more exciting developments to come.”
Prototype hydrogen-powered backhoe loader and Loadall telescopic handler unveiled a year ago with new refueller wagon
JCB has still to provide details of when the first machines could be commercially available.
Going green: New refueller truck will operate in same way as fuel bowsers servicing equipment around large construction sites
The plant manufacturer has designed the truck to refuel its prototype machines in the same way that fuel bowsers are used for diesel-powered equipment.
JCB is betting a £100m on its development project to produce super-efficient hydrogen engines for construction plant and has 100 engineers working on hydrogen power.
JCB chairman Lord Bamford, who is leading JCB’s hydrogen project, said: “Since we became the first construction equipment company to unveil machines powered by hydrogen, many have asked how they can be refuelled.
“Well today we have an answer with our new mobile hydrogen refuelling system, which allows hydrogen to be taken from on-site tube trailers and distributed to machines by our refueller as they work on the job site. This is no different to today when diesel is taken in bowsers to refuel machines.
“Fossil fuels are not the future and hydrogen is the practical solution to powering our machines in the decades to come. Our British engineers are doing a fantastic job in developing this technology and there are many more exciting developments to come.”
Prototype hydrogen-powered backhoe loader and Loadall telescopic handler unveiled a year ago with new refueller wagon
JCB has still to provide details of when the first machines could be commercially available.
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Some of us are old enough to remember when it was in our houses.
Only AFTER the switch to natural gas did houses start to explode, requiring the repositioning of every service pipe.
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Gas mains are high pressure. The supply pipe to your house is fairly low pressure, and what comes past your meter is low pressure (about 28millibar, I think). The distribution network runs at 2 to 7 bar with the high pressure trunk mains between 7 bar and 100 bar.
Hydrogen can be transferred and used at similar pressures, but it isn't possible to liquify it (LNG is at -160 degrees in the tankers) so storing hydrogen is often done at high pressure. But it's optional: the higher the pressure, the smaller the tank has to be.
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