As far as I can tell, hydrogen has always be dispensed by the kg. Even the president made mention of it in a State of the Union address a few years back. When fuel cell cars become more widespread, I can't see any other unit being used to dispense hydrogen.
Phil On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Victor Jockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been doing some more digging on this issue, and I may have jumped the > gun when I said that California law requires the retail dispensing of > hydrogen fuel in kilograms. The "workshop" document I distributed a link > to, which summarizes major elements of the law, has a bullet indicating that > H2 is to be dispensed in kilograms. But the law itself, while using only > metric units throughout its text (kilograms and metric tons) does not, as > far as I can tell, explicitly require retail dispensing in kilograms. What > it does require is that retailers report sales to the state in kilograms. > Also, certain trigger points (the definition of a low volume retailer) are > set in metric units. Here's the full bill that got signed into law: > > > http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/05-06/bill/sen/sb_1501-1550/sb_1505_bill_20060930_chaptered.pdf > > So a retailer who sold in pounds and reported sales to the state in > kilograms would not, as far as I can tell, be in violation of this law. And > of course, this law applies only in California. > > This just underlines my point that we need to be on top of this important > emerging battlefront. There is still time to influence the future now, and > we were handed an early tenuous victory by the CA legislature and some > European oil companies. That lead could very easily vanish (and in my > opinion, probably will) with a national retail build out of H2 stations. > Someone within USMA needs to research this issue and start crafting a > national strategy that will make the most of our limited resources and > influence. I can try to help, but who else does these kinds of things > within our organization? For example, what bills might be pending in other > states? Are any other potential H2 retailers planning stations? Can NIST > get involved (at least write opinions)? What can we do to cheer on Shell > and BP for dispensing in kg's now? etc. >
