In the past I’ve talked about the thermochemical cracking of water into hydrogen and high temperature water cracking using electrolysis at nuclear power plants. The thinking is that if we already have nuclear power plants generating waste heat, we might as well put it to good use, generating hydrogen for cars, hydrail, hyboats and other • Read More »
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H2 Production
August 7, 2015 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | No Comments | Filed in: .Hydrogen Production Hydrogen production will be necessary for the hydrogen highway to take off. For hydrogen cars to be produced on a large scale, hydrogen production must be in place in order to meet this need. While hydrogen itself is the most common element in the universe, it makes up only an extremely tiny percentage • Read More »
Solar Fuel Produced by University of Delaware Researchers
February 6, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 5 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Production.Two researchers from the University of Delaware, Erik Koepf and Michael Giuliano spent a couple of months in Switzerland working on a novel sunlight-driven water-splitting device. The initial tests proved that solar fuel (aka hydrogen) could be produced using sunlight, mirrors (no smoke), a reactant and water. According to the University of Delaware, “Koepf’s reactor • Read More »
DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program 2012 Annual Progress Report
January 22, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 5 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Organizations.The DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program 2012 Annual Progress Report is encouraging on many different levels especially in light of the recent economy, cutbacks and unemployment rate in general. I will attempt to outline some of the main points of this document as they apply to hydrogen cars and vehicles. According to the DOE • Read More »
2013 HYDRAIL CONFERENCE IN TORONTO
January 16, 2013 | By Stan Thompson | 1 Comment | Filed in: Conferences, Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Boats, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Fuel Production, Hydrogen Organizations, News.by guest blogger Stan Thompson Toronto (Ontario) Canada will be the location of the Eighth International Hydrail Conference (8IHC) on 11 and 12 June, 2013. The venue and the first of the slate of presenters will be announced shortly. The International Hydrail Conferences are annual gatherings of academic, government and rail industry experts to expedite • Read More »
HYDRAIL 2012: THE BIRMINGHAM U.K. CONFERENCE
June 11, 2012 | By Stan Thompson | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Vehicles, Hyrail, Infrastructure.By guest blogger, Stan Thompson The Centre for Railway Research and Education at the University of Birmingham, UK, hosts this year’s International Hydrail Conference (IHC) on 3 and 4 July and the trend is clearly toward putting hydrogen on the main line. Hosting the Hydrail Conference in the UK was the idea of U. Birmingham • Read More »
Low Temperature Electrolysis at Nuclear Power Plants Creates Hydrogen
March 28, 2012 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Low Temperature Electrolysis at Nuclear Power Plants Creates Hydrogen | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Production.I’ve talked in the past about thermochemical cracking of water at high temperatures to create hydrogen. Nuclear power plants already produce waste steam and heat, two of the ingredients needed to create hydrogen from water. And while high temperature cracking of water into hydrogen and oxygen has been talked about and experimented with for years, • Read More »
Hydrail: A Tale of Two Metals
February 24, 2011 | By Stan Thompson | 3 Comments | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy.by guest blogger Stan Thompson When the history of railway evolution in the first half of the twenty-first century is written, it may largely be a tale of two metals and their respective economics. Copper and hydrogen are both essential to the long-term economical delivery of electric power: copper to stationary applications and hydrogen to • Read More »
International Conference on Hydrogen Production in Oshawa, Canada
December 10, 2008 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on International Conference on Hydrogen Production in Oshawa, Canada | Filed in: Conferences.The International Conference on Hydrogen Production will take place May 3 – 6, 2009 in Oshawa, Canada. The entire conference is focused on the production of hydrogen from biological, chemical and thermal methods. Particular emphasis will be placed on nuclear and thermochemical hydrogen production on a large scale. Also covered will be topics such as • Read More »
Idaho National Laboratory Heats Up Hydrogen Production
October 13, 2008 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Production.The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has made a breakthrough in high temperature production of hydrogen gas. By using High-Temperature Electrolysis (HTE) of steam, the water vapor components of hydrogen and oxygen can be broken apart more easily. Many current day nuclear reactors use the heat generated from the radioactive process to change water into very • Read More »