The last time I talked Turkey was November 9, 2011 to discuss the country’s first fuel cell car which was unveiled. The fuel cell car runs on sodium borohydride (NaBH4) which is created from the main mineral mined in Turkey, boron. Today I would like to talk Turkey again. Besides being a hotbed for development • Read More »
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Turkey Develops Sodium Borohydride Fuel Cell Car
November 9, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Turkey Develops Sodium Borohydride Fuel Cell Car | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.This won’t be the first time I’ve talked turkey about Turkey. In July 2011, I had spoken about how Turkey had built the EkoKaravan that runs off a variety of energy sources including hydrogen. Turkish engineers had also built the SAHIMO hydrogen car and an H2 refueling station as well. Now, with Thanksgiving only a • Read More »
Turkey Builds EkoKaravan and Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure
July 6, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Turkey Builds EkoKaravan and Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure | Filed in: Hydrogen Economy.In July 2009 I had talked about how Turkish students had developed the SAHIMO hydrogen car that gets around 340 mpge. Last year the International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies (ICHET) based in Istanbul decided to build the EkoKaravan recreational vehicle (pictured above) that runs off a combination of solar, wind, batteries and hydrogen fuel • Read More »
Hydrail Hub May Happen in Turkey
November 16, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 3 Comments | Filed in: Hydrail.I’ve talked about hydrail (hydrogen railway trains) quite a bit in the past. And now it’s time to revisit Turkey as a possible hub for hydrail in Europe. Some of the reasons why according to Herbert Wancura, chief executive of a Spanish energy consulting firm, are “For a hydrail industry, Turkey has all the elements • Read More »
Hydrail in Turkey and Spain Explained
July 8, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrail.Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking with Stan Thompson, Chairman of the Hydrogen Economy Advancement Team (HEAT), who just got back from Istanbul, Turkey where the 6th Annual Hydrail Conference had occurred on this past July 1 & 2. As I’ve talked about many times before Hydrail means hydrogen trains (hydrogen rail or hydrail) • Read More »
Sixth International Hydrail Conference July 1 – 2 in Istanbul Turkey
May 13, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrail.I’ve talked about hydrail 13 times in the past and this will make the 14th time. Hydrail (hydrogen rail trains) is an often overlooked subject by the mainstream media, so I like to present it here. The Hydrail conference is both US and internationally focused as past gatherings have been held in places such as • Read More »
From Russia to Charlotte and back: a hydrail odyssey
November 15, 2019 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on From Russia to Charlotte and back: a hydrail odyssey | Filed in: Conferences, Fuel Cells, History, Hydrail, Hyrail.by guest blogger Stan Thompson Everything seems to have a Ukraine connection these days. Why not hydrail (H2 fuel cell rail traction)? Per Wikipedia, in 1880, several years before Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, a Ukrainian engineer named Pyotr Pirotsky introduced the world’s first electric “tram” (European for “streetcar”) in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Soon Pirotsky connected • Read More »
A Triumph In Rome: 13th International Hydrail Conference
June 17, 2018 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on A Triumph In Rome: 13th International Hydrail Conference | Filed in: Conferences, Hydrail, Infrastructure, News.by guest blogger Stan Thompson The University of Rome II at Tor Vergata hosted the Thirteenth International Hydrail Conference the week of June 4, 2018, and it was a delightful success! Professor Stefano Cordiner and his colleagues saw that the Conference ran like a well-oiled clock (Tutto era semplicemente perfetto! Grazie!). The IHC’s have come • Read More »
Natural Hydrogen (a New Source of Energy) Seeks Commercial Production & Investors
December 19, 2017 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Natural Hydrogen (a New Source of Energy) Seeks Commercial Production & Investors | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel.In 2009, geologists discovered a new, previously unknown natural phenomenon: some places on the Earth’s crust were seeping hydrogen gas. Hydrogen is odorless, invisible, tasteless, non-toxic, and, the most important, a very diffusive gas. This may explain why hydrogen in such places was not recognized earlier. This gas seeps out over very wide areas, • Read More »
HYDRAIL: FROM RESOLVE TO RAILS IN 11 YEARS
June 2, 2016 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on HYDRAIL: FROM RESOLVE TO RAILS IN 11 YEARS | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Infrastructure.By guest blogger Stan Thompson In 2005 in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the benefit of society a handful of citizens, companies and agencies set about changing the railroad traction paradigm for the first time since 1925 when diesel began replacing steam. The societal benefits being pursued were climate change mitigation; air pollution reduction; and the • Read More »