General Motors forsees hydrogen economy
HyWeb, 00-05-29: What the oil and auto industries do today and over the next few years will have a dramatic effect on the kinds of vehicles people drive and how they live and work in the 21st century, General Motors' Executive Director Robert Purcell Jr. told the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association's Annual Meeting, reports Octane Week in its May 15 edition...
...Near-zero and zero-sulfur fuels are the short-term goal for the most promising advanced systems such as lean burn engines and fuel cells, but in the long term, GM sees a much different picture. "In fact, our long-term vision is of a hydrogen economy."
"There will also be increasing percentages of transportation fuels from renewable sources in support of efforts to reduce global greenhouse gases."
The dominant transportation fuels will depend on the dominant engine technology, according to Purcell, continuing that only the marketplace can answer the question what engine technology will be. GM's "current best thinking" on the fuels needed to power fuel cell vehicles is the following: In the near term, light naphtha refinery streams and liquid hydrocarbons derived from natural gas. Also, methanol, and as production, storage and distribution systems develop, hydrogen...
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