More Businesses Are Using Fuel Cells To acknowledge Their vigor Needs
Review Fuel cells aren't new - electricity aboard the Gemini 5 spacecraft in 1965 came from one - but they aren't so space age anymore.
More businesses and local governments are relying on them to help cut their carbon footprint, capitalize on renewable fuels and to generate power. At least four systems are in the San Joaquin Valley and, as a Dec. 21 Los Angeles Times story noted, they are "popping up" throughout the state.
Bloom Energy
Bloom Energy, a young Bay area company, has received lots of press lately for its fuel cells. A prominent soft drink maker announced this year that it would test fuel Bloom Energy cells powered by biogas at a plant in Dinuba, in Tulare County. The five cells could furnish approximately one-third of the plant's power, and cut its carbon footprint 35%.
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Similar devices generate power at a 400,000-square-foot cold storehouse storehouse in Stockton; use methane gas created from a wastewater treatment facility to provide power to the Turlock Irrigation District; and use biogas as an onsite renewable energy source at a regional wastewater plant in Tulare.
The California Stationary Fuel Cell Collaborative, administered by the Air Resources Board, has data on more projects throughout the state.
It remains to be seen how beloved these power producers come to be - they can be the size of a car and cost a bundle to install - but, if they work as intended, could make a mammoth dent in an entity's carbon footprint and power bills.
The federal government has an ambitious agenda for study in that field, appropriating million over three years. "The investments we're production today will help enlarge fuel cell technology in the United States," U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said. "This is part of a broad attempt to generate American jobs, cut carbon pollution, and help ensure the U.S. Stays competing in the growing clean energy economy."
Fuel cells use the chemical energy of hydrogen or other fuels to cleanly and efficiently furnish electricity or heat with minimal byproducts, primarily water. They can furnish power in large stationary systems such as buildings or for vehicles such as industrial forklifts, buses and automobiles.
Lewis Nelson, public works director in Tulare, says fuel cells are well fine for wastewater treatment plants. They take biogas from anaerobic treatment of wastewater solids or animal manure and generate electricity. In 2010, Tulare is unbelievable to save about 0,000 with the system.
"A treatment plant uses a lot of electricity, and can generally use all the electricity a fuel cell generates internally, rescue the cost of purchasing electricity from a utility," Nelson says. "I think that biogas fuel cells are an perfect renewable electricity technology for wastewater treatment plants."
Tulare is currently installing its fourth fuel cell. The city's investment after a million incentive was million, which means it could recoup its costs within five years.
More Businesses Are Using Fuel Cells To acknowledge Their vigor Needs
