And why Elon Musk is wrong in saying hydrogen is 'dumb'.
and lithium-ion battery powerplant into Anglo American's 490-ton nuGen mining truck. And it's one of many projects First Mode has undertaken on its mission to decarbonize industry.Voorhees learned his trade from the pioneering first generation of solar system exploration scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He joined NASA as an intern in the mid-90s just as many of them were coming to the end of their illustrious careers.
"I think we've been watching the world, and industry, progress across four phases," Voorhees explains. "The first phase is that people see the [clean energy] transition as a fool’s errand. It's a folly and it's something that’s just not in the cards, either for their industry or their particular viewpoint. The second phase is that it's necessary, but that it will happen someday and at some point in the future. The third phase is where people see it as inevitable.
"Our [nuGen] system is really a hybrid," Voorhees continues. "We're taking and replacing the diesel element with the next best, most potent fuel source, which is hydrogen, and augmenting that with the power output, and the ability to be able to store while operating with battery." The result is a zero-emissions truck capable of carrying 290 tons of mining materials.
First Mode's Voorhees highlights this point to IE. Though mining is a "pretty dirty industry with a pretty checkered past that has had a lot of problems and has done a lot of environmental damage in history, it is also vital to society," he explains.
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