Scenario analysis of US hydrogen infrastructure and vehicle costs

4 Scenario analysis of US hydrogen infrastructure and vehicle costs 

2 Researchers at the Environmental Institute of Princeton University suggest that coal or biomass gasification power plants could offer a small slipstream of hydrogen to early hydrogen users (T. Kreutz, private communication, 2006). 

3 One method for understanding the economic and environmental costs and benefits associated with the transition to a hydrogen economy is through the use of scenarios. Scenarios are one way of providing a set of quantitative inputs for use in a computer model or analysis that can be used to calculate the potential impacts associated with these assumptions. 

Our scenario analysis is based on two Microsoft Excel -based models, which we developed for hydrogen infrastructure costs and vehicle scenario analysis. 

The SSCHISM hydrogen infrastructure model (Yang and Ogden, 2007a b) designs and costs of an H2 infrastructure to meet a specified market penetration for FCVs. 

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