Mobility infrastructure vehicles

As mentioned earlier, separation of C02 at concentrated sources is easier than from the environment, and carbon capture at upstream decarbonizes many subsequent economic sectors. However, it does require significant changes in the existing infrastructure of power and chemical plants. Furthermore, approximately half of all emissions arise from small, distributed sources. Many of these emitters are vehicles for which onboard capture is not practical. Thus, unless all the existing automobiles are replaced by either hydrogen-powered fuel cell cars or electric cars, the capture of C02 from the air provides another alternative for small mobile emitters. 

So the greatest challenges are in the mobile sector, but the pressure to act is much greater here as well, owing to oil scarcity, pollutants from vehicles, noise nuisance, etc. Compared with stationary applications, the alternative technologies in the mobile sector are also much poorer. This is why fuel-cell vehicles remain a possibility, despite the enormous sectoral changes that accompany this alternative. The question is when will they achieve market penetration One of the main obstacles that will have to be overcome is the attendant position of both the automobile industry and the infrastructure industry concerning the investment. Which one is prepared to... 

At the highest level of abstraction, hydrogen fuel is one of the options being considered in the World s quest for sustainable mobility. This, as discussed for instance in a recent report of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, is a multifaceted subject, encompassing everything from future fuels to future vehicle technology and transportation infrastructure, in all of which major strides forward are needed [1], In what follows we restrict ourselves to fuels. But the fact that a sustainable fuel is just an element of the complex issue of sustainable mobility makes clear that such a fuel must meet a complex and sometimes contradictory set of demands. The following three requirements stand out a sustainable fuel should, in a cost effective way, contribute to... 

Here we examine the development of mobility systems, primarily automobility. The three main supporting physical infrastructures for automobility are roads, vehicles, and fuels. We focus on the roads and vehicles first motor fuel will be treated in the subsequent section on energy. 

Anyone who has visited the Kennedy Space Center and seen the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)—originally built to process the Saturn V and currently used to assemble the Space Shuttle and its external tanks and solid rocket boosters—and the crawler-transporter— used to move the final assembled vehicle and mobile launch platform from the VAB to the launch pad—has an appreciation for the massive infrastructure requirements of a major space project. The ISS program has benefited substantially from the existence of the Apollo-era... 

The goal mainly is to create the hydrogen refueling station infrastructure in Germany for the roU-out of fuel cell vehicles. An additional important aspect of the initiative is to trigger a catalyst reactimi for the neighboring European countries in order to initiate further H2-MobUity projects in other European countries for the promotiOTi of hydrogen infrastructure. Already the UK-H2-Mobility initiative has been founded. Similar activities recently started in France. 

New and improved sensor and communication technologies create opportunities for designing embedded and mobile systems that are able to interact with their environment, and exhibit smart and autonomous behavior. Furthermore, collaboration between mobile entities can also be envisaged for improving their functionality as well as performance. Example applications include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and smart cars, where for instance, UAVs can be used for environmental surveillance and control, and smart vehicles coordinating their behaviors can be used to increase traffic throughput and improve mobility without the need of using more space for the respective traffic infrastructures. 

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