Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
In two separate stories today, platinum is either being drastically reduced or eliminated altogether in hydrogen fuel cells. In the first case, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) has reduced the amount of platinum used in a fuel cell by five times in a recent experiment. According to PSI, “An international team of researchers involving the […]
Continue ReadingOn July 30, 2013 I had talked about TU Delft and HZB creating solar-hydrogen breakthrough technology. Well, it seems like there is no shortage of solar-hydrogen breakthroughs recently as the University of Colorado, Boulder has created one as well. Researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU-Boulder) have come at the issue from a completely […]
Continue ReadingApproximately 37 miles from where I live in San Bernardino County, California the first public hydrogen fueling station in the county is being built. The opening of the new station is expected to be in the Fall of 2014. Hydrogen Frontier received a $3 million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to build the […]
Continue ReadingIn Germany, the HZB Institute for Solar Fuels and TU Delft University of Technology have created a solar device that can split water into hydrogen cheaply and efficiently. On the solar cell, the anode is made from metal oxide bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) plus a small amount of tungsten atoms with a dash of wolfram atoms […]
Continue ReadingScientists at the Argonne National Laboratory have discovered that microorganisms that live in desert salt flats are using sunlight to produce hydrogen. And if coaxed, these bacteriorhodopsin that live in the hottest areas of California and Nevada, could be persuaded to produce large amounts of hydrogen fuel. According to Argonne, “Argonne nanoscientist Elena Rozhkova and […]
Continue ReadingI have been talking about APFCT hydrogen scooters in Taiwan since November 2010. It’s been fun and educational to watch the development from prototypes to commercial ready vehicles. And now there is an update. According to APFCT, “80 fuel cell vehicles (scooters), which are granted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs Bureau of Energy for […]
Continue ReadingAt the leading science foundation in Ireland, CRANN, researchers there have discovered a non-platinum method for creating hydrogen gas from water. This new method uses iron and nickel oxide to do the efficient water splitting. Now, I have talked before about how iron may be the new platinum. I’ve also posted over a dozen times […]
Continue ReadingThe Shell Eco-Marathon Asia 2013 has been called off because of inclement weather. But, be that as it may, the development of student-built hydrogen cars continues. One notable hydrogen car (pictured above) is the one built by the estudiantes at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Besides developing a new fuel cell for the car, the […]
Continue ReadingAll of the major automakers have agreed to put a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle into the commercial marketplace by 2015, even if there is very little infrastructure to support them. In fact, Hyundai has beaten this deadline and is rolling out its FCEV’s now. But, the fuel cell vehicles which do, in fact, rollout for […]
Continue ReadingOne of the long-time issues with hydrogen fuel cells for cars has been durability. If a fuel cell has to compete with gasoline or diesel engines for customers then they need to last nearly as long if not excel in durability. Up until now this hasn’t been the case. ACAL Energy has recently created such […]
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