They say a facility to liquefy 15 tonnes of byproduct hydrogen will also be built in North Vancouver and the project, called H2 Gateway, will create more than 280 jobs.
The government says 14 of the new stations will be able to refuel up to 300 heavy vehicles per day. It says hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles can travel long distances and have short refuelling times.
So it seems like there will be 3 hydrogen producing plants built which should use electrolysis to make the hydrogen, which makes sense in BC since we have so much hydro-electric power. They also mention one plant in North Vancouver which would be a byproduct hydrogen plant which means they are processing petro-chemicals and are siphoning off the hydrogen byproduct. That’s not great.
And if we wanted to electrify our transport fleet in british columbia why not string up catenaries and order some trucks like the ones Scania made for the German test of electric highways? This makes way more sense to me to power a grid that the trucks can use directly rather than using a lot of electricity to produce a mediocre amount of hydrogen to convert back into electricity?
In Europe they have these catenary systems figured out. They’ve been powering high speed rail with them for years. They could certainly handle a few rigs in Canada.