HYDROGEN PROJECT LAUNCHED BY THE USAF

摘要

The United States Air Force has begun a new demonstration project that is focused on hydrogen fuel. To that end, a new hydrogen production facility has been set up at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. The hydrogen produced at the facility has been deployed to power a variety of vehicles, all of which run on fuel cells. This initiative forms just a part of a bigger project that is seeking to explore the reality of using hydrogen. The project is actually part of an agreement between the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Hawaii Centre for Advanced Transportation Technologies, which has been running for over a decade. In the latest development, a new mobile hydrogen unit for storage, production and dispensing was upgraded in 2010, with a view to providing the hydrogen needed to test clean vehicles as part of initiatives launched by the Department of Defence.