USAF contract for Protonex UAV power

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 74 KB
• Volume: 2006
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(06)70962-2

✦ Synopsis

According to an Asia Pulse report, the hydrogen energy steering group has estimated that an investment of Rs250bn (US$5.6bn) would be needed between 2006 and 2020 to tap the potential from hydrogen. This includes Rs10bn for research, development and demonstration, and about Rs240bn to create the infrastructure for hydrogen production, storage, transportation and distribution.

The roadmap, which targets 1m hydrogenpowered vehicles by 2020, has proposed two major initiatives -the Green Initiative for Future Transport (GIFT) and the Green Initiative for Power Generation (GIPG) -to implement the recommendations. GIFT is aimed at developing and demonstrating hydrogen-powered engine and fuel cell based vehicles, while GIPG would develop and demonstrate hydrogen-powered engine/turbine and fuel cellbased decentralized power generating systems.

The roadmap also envisages hydrogen-based power generation of about 1000 MWe capacity in India by 2020.