CSIRO takes the wheel on cars powered by Aussie-made hydrogen

CSIRO scientists have taken the wheel of the first vehicle to be powered by Australian-made ultra-high purity hydrogen created through the organisation’s membrane technology and now plan to increase production.

CSIRO scientists take a hydrogen-powered car for a test drive.

The CSIRO first launched its hydrogen fuel program late last year to support the development of the technology as a new energy export for Australia.

It invested around $7 million in creating a hydrogen-focused Future Sciences Platform.

This was soon followed by the launch of a $496 million project, backed by state and federal governments and a Japanese consortium, to convert Victoria’s brown coal into liquid hydrogen for export to Japan.

Read the story from The Age bye Cole Latimer - “CSIRO takes the wheel on cars powered by Aussie-made hydrogen.”

(We, that is humanity or at least those of us in the developed world, cling to the idea that privately owned and operated vehicles are the way of the future. Sadly, they are not, despite all the innovative work being done on making them more efficient and subsequently markedly less energy intense.

The whole infrastructure around and supporting the private car is energy rich and beyond that encourages behaviours that offend any genuine effort to reduce our carbon emissions. 

And so, rather the concerntrating our efforts on an exhausted paradigm, we should be spending our time, money and human intuition on how we can create a build a sophisticated public transport system that answersall our human, and freight movement needs - Robert McLean)