Costa Rica: Government Issues Guideline To Promote Hydrogen As Fuel

[Peace Piper]

President Alvarado rode to his inauguration in a Hydrogen Powered Bus

As part of the strategy to decarbonize the Costa Rica economy, in one of the first acts as President on Tuesday, Carlos Alvarado, and Environment and Energy Minister Carlos Manuel Rodríguez issued a directive to promote the use of hydrogen as fuel.

“The institutions that comprise the environment and energy sector are instructed so that, within the framework of their competences, they develop an action plan to promote research, production and commercialization of hydrogen as a fuel”, says the guideline.

He adds that the action plan must be presented within the next 6 months.

In his inauguration speech on Tuesday, President Alvarado commented that “decarbonization is the great task of our generation.”

“We must promote decisive and coordinated action by all sectors of society to initiate and accelerate this process irreversibly, not only by promoting transport and electricity production, hydrogen and other technologies, but modernizing our institutions,” he said.

As a demonstration of a clear political will to insert itself in the global trend of decarbonizing economies to ensure truly sustainable development, the incoming president and his ministers arrived on the hydrogen-powered bus, developed in Costa Rica by the scientist and former astronaut of the NASA, Franklin Chang Díaz... http://qcostarica.com/government-iss...rogen-as-fuel/

From the just concluded Hydrogen/Fuel Cell/Battery expo at world famous Hannover Messe industrial fair in Germany



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[CaptUSA]

Yay! Government edicts!!

[Peace Piper]

Yay! Government edicts!!

In case you have forgotten, you have witnessed a "government edict" for the last 19 years in your country.

War.

19 years ago the US started the latest round of aggressions in Serbia. Since then, how many trillions of dollars of taxpayers money has gone to enriching the MIC and world hegemony, while your infrastructure crumbles? Have any idea at all?

Here are some numbers: http://costofwar.com

What have the PEOPLE OF THE US received for this outrageous spending, besides being rightly labeled the dumbest people alive?

In a few short years (less years than the US has been blowing your children's future) Costa Rica will be ENERGY INDEPENDENT.

That's a smart "government edict", don't you think?

The US is a wasteland of idiocy, arrogance and hypocrisy and has become stuffed to the borders with some of the most ignorant, arrogant, selfish, greedy and spoiled people that have ever walked the planet.

Hooray for China, Costa Rica, Japan and other nations that haven't stormed around the world performing "Regime Changes" that not a single US Citizen ever voted for.

[Zippyjuan]

War.

19 years ago the US started the latest round of aggressions in Serbia. Since then, how many trillions of dollars of taxpayers money has gone to enriching the MIC and world hegemony, while your infrastructure crumbles? Have any idea at all?

We have been at war with Serbia for 19 years?

In a few short years (less years than the US has been blowing your children's future) Costa Rica will be ENERGY INDEPENDENT.

Costa Rica is small and usually gets lots of rain. Most of their energy is hydroelectric. But if you include automobiles, they still import about half of their total energy consumption. https://tradingeconomics.com/costa-r...e-wb-data.html (they don't have any oil or refining capacity so they have to import all of their gasoline and other refined oil products).

(Costa Rica's hydrogen bus in the OP comes from the USA- it was made in Connecticut)

https://thecostaricanews.com/first-h...us-costa-rica/

Cummins is paying US Hybrid an amount of $125,000 for the bus shipment.

“Once the bus is ready to work, it will be used to transport the Liberia airport employees for free. This is because we want people to know the vehicle. In a matter of 6 or 12 months, the fare should be set by the Regulating Authority of Public Services. We want people to feel comfortable going from A to B in a high-quality bus” – Chang said.

[timosman]

We have been at war with Serbia for 19 years?

no, but this is almost as long as everybody has been enduring you on this forum.

[Zippyjuan]

no, but this is almost as long as everybody has been enduring you on this forum.

Thank you for your informative contribution to the discussion.

[CaptUSA]

That's a smart "government edict", don't you think?

Yeah, that's what we want... "Smart" government edicts!! We don't want government out of the way of the market... we want the government to control the market in the manner that comports with my thinking of how its force should be used against people!!

(you don't think those on the other side don't feel the exact same way?! How are you any better?)

[Suzanimal]

In case you have forgotten, you have witnessed a "government edict" for the last 19 years in your country.

War.

19 years ago the US started the latest round of aggressions in Serbia. Since then, how many trillions of dollars of taxpayers money has gone to enriching the MIC and world hegemony, while your infrastructure crumbles? Have any idea at all?

Here are some numbers: http://costofwar.com

What have the PEOPLE OF THE US received for this outrageous spending, besides being rightly labeled the dumbest people alive?

In a few short years (less years than the US has been blowing your children's future) Costa Rica will be ENERGY INDEPENDENT.

That's a smart "government edict", don't you think?

The US is a wasteland of idiocy, arrogance and hypocrisy and has become stuffed to the borders with some of the most ignorant, arrogant, selfish, greedy and spoiled people that have ever walked the planet.

Hooray for China, Costa Rica, Japan and other nations that haven't stormed around the world performing "Regime Changes" that not a single US Citizen ever voted for.

I'm against both - government edits and war.