Solar bus shelter
The City of Corona in California has installed solar bus shelters connected to the grid, writes Energy Boom. They feature six panels and six inverters which can generate approximately 1.2 kilowatts of power. With this amount of solar power, the shelters qualify for the California Solar Initiative rebate and a federal tax grant program. The shelters are supplied by GoGreenSolar.
The solar shelters cost US$14.500 while conventional bus stops cost US$10.000,00 to US$12.000,00, but with all the tax incentives, the extra cost is more than made up for.
Hydrogen London bus
Across the pond, the Great London Authority, led by Mayor Boris Johnson, hydrogen, zero-emitting buses were introduced on 18 December to improve air quality in some of the busiest routes.
The buses use hydrogen fuel cell technology and emit nothing but vapor. For now there is one bus route running on hydrogen, and it is the first of a fleet of eight to be phased into operation this year.
Funding came from the TfL (London’s transport body), the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the European Union via the Clean Hydrogen in Cities (CHIC) project.
Now, wouldn’t it be great to introduce these two initiatives in the same city so citizens could wait for a hydrogen bus at a solar-powered shelter? I think so.
Let this be a lesson to all would-be documentarians of human atrocities around the globe!! Filming and then showing the general population what is going on behind their backs in this great wide world is the ONLY way to get them to do anything to stop it.