[Richard230]

The city of San Francisco's garbage/recycling company is currently testing out a hydrogen/electric powered garbage truck that can be used to collect both household garbage and recycling materials. One fill up of H2 will allow the truck to operate for three days, compared with just one day for their diesel-powered trucks, which need to be refueled every day. Plus, it is a lot quieter, as the H2 is used to recharge a battery, which then supplies electricity to the motor which drives the truck. However, it does cost $1 million a copy, compared with half that amount for a typical diesel truck.

[NVDucati]

The city of San Francisco's garbage/recycling company is currently testing out a hydrogen/electric powered garbage truck that can be used to collect both household garbage and recycling materials. One fill up of H2 will allow the truck to operate for three days, compared with just one day for their diesel-powered trucks, which need to be refueled every day. Plus, it is a lot quieter, as the H2 is used to recharge a battery, which then supplies electricity to the motor which drives the truck. However, it does cost $1 million a copy, compared with half that amount for a typical diesel truck.

Garbage trucks are a great market for H2. The inertia of huge weight and nearly exclusive start and go operations.
Around 20 or so years ago the Scandinavian countries did a program to experiment with garbage trucks running on compressed air for the same reason.

[GlennF]

They need to design one that will run on methane generated by the garbage it picks up  which will run forever for free.

[AzCal Retred]

Vacuum/zero point energy converters, easily found at your local Home Depot next to Mr. Fusion, across the aisle from the perpetual motion machines.

[him a layin]

it used to not be unusual to go to the landfill and see them burning off the methane the garbage generates. probably no reason they couldn't pump it into tanks...

[AzCal Retred]

In civilized countries they use pyrolytic combustors and heat recovery steam/generators. Burying it and hoping it goes away seems...well...stupid. Or you could use existing petro tech and convert the plastics back to oil/petro product. That would however interfere with oil extraction revenues and the existing one-way petro product stream, can't have that.

[GlennF]

During WWII a lot of Aussie cars ran on charcoal burning gas convertors on the roof or back bumper.

[Turbofurball]

Barcelona has a battery-electric rubbish truck in active use as a test, at work we're doing a lot of H2 testing for commercial vehicles so it's in the pipeline (pun intended)