Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
The Glenn Research division of NASA has decided to build and install a hydrogen refueling station based on renewable energy in downtown Cleveland. The hydrogen fueling station will use water and wind from Lake Erie to create the hydrogen. Solar power will also be used. The water from Lake Erie will be split into hydrogen […]
Continue ReadingThe Shell Eco Marathon America 2009 is going on right now in Fontana, California and let’s students from across the nation compete with very high MPG cars. In 2008, the winning car was from Europe and it was able to squeeze out 7,955mpgs. This year, some high school students are racing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles […]
Continue ReadingThe Hydrogen Link project based in Copenhagen, Denmark is ready for rapid growth over the next few years. The plan is that by 2015 the municipality of Copenhagen has 85-percent of its cars running on electric or hydrogen, which will total around 600 vehicles. The plan also calls for a total conversion of its fleet […]
Continue ReadingThe Energy and Environmental Research Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota has developed a way to reform various liquids at the pump into hydrogen under high pressure. This means that methanol, ethanol, gasoline and other alcohol fuels can be transported to these stations, then reformed into hydrogen at the pump, eliminating the need to carry […]
Continue ReadingThere’s been a lot of talk about California’s high-speed electric train (bullet train) speeding to and from all major cities in the Golden State with a hefty price tag of $37 billion. But, there is another new technology that has mostly slipped under the radar and that is: hydrogen trains. Hydrolley (hydrogen trolleys) and hydrail […]
Continue ReadingRetired Apollo Engineer Adrian F has a unique vision of the future that involves ships out on the ocean using nuclear power to generate hydrogen from sea water. These ships could be miles out and away from the danger zone, coming to shore only to refuel and deposit the hydrogen. According to an email from […]
Continue ReadingThe U. S. Navy is planning to break current records with their hydrogen-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The Ion Tiger, when completed will be able to fly for 24-hours straight and carry a 5-pound payload. In November 2008, I talked about the University of Michigan Endurance UAV which had just set the record for a […]
Continue ReadingIn 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 […]
Continue ReadingBrute force cracking of water into hydrogen and oxygen is just one of hundreds (if not thousands) of ways to create H2 gas. However, researchers at the Weizmann Institute’s Organic Chemistry Department in Israel have developed a method using water, metal, heat and sunlight to efficiently produce hydrogen and oxygen. This new method does not […]
Continue ReadingHydrogen Assist Fuel Cells (HAFC) was featured last night in a segment of Dateline NBC with Chris Hansen called “Promises, Promises”. Dateline made a compelling argument against the mechanic who installed the HAFC hydrogen fuel injection device into a 2004 Honda Accord. First, Dateline brought the Honda to an EPA sanctioned testing facility to test […]
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