The 2008 amalgamation of most Queensland Councils ended Douglas Shire’s existence, and with it, most of its elected representation. Rod Davis has had to shift. But a shift that still had a broader community service role is where Rod Davis wanted to go. With an environmental interest, and a project managerial background, tinged with some political and media insight, Rod Davis is working in the interesting filed on the new energy agenda. Solar, hydrogen, hybrid drive chains, and diesel substitution. Tracking the TRYBRID project, which will deploy a full range of alternate energy demonstrations, on a boat intended for international display, can be seen at www.trybrid.org.

With fossil fuel prices escalating out of hand in 2008, and with climate change and peak oil pressure building, there is more than a fortuitous driver behind the TRYBRID project.

The TRYBRID boat could end up as one of those rare modes of transport, that is amongst the world’s first in terms of the mechanised transport not only using renewable energy, but it will also make and store its own hydrogen energy onboard.

So to follow the projects progress, it’s over to www.trybrid.org

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