Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Today, a little reported initiative happened at the White House. President Barack Obama has changed his stance on battery electric vehicles and has signed the “Nationwide Hydrogen Highway Initiative” into law. The new initiative will mandate that the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and Department of Energy (DOE) build up to 200,000 hydrogen fueling stations nationwide, […]
Continue ReadingeHydrogen Solutions, Inc. has created its H2-Reactor hydrogen on demand system that uses only water and metal alloys. The H2-Reactor system uses aluminum or magnesium alloys plus water to create hydrogen fuel for cars or for stationary fuel cells for residential or industrial applications. I’ve talked about eHydrogen Solutions once before when they developed their […]
Continue ReadingI’ve previously talked about the Scottish Hydrogen Highway and the South Wales Hydrogen Highway in development. I’ve also talked about how hydrogen powered taxis are coming to London for the 2012 Olympics. And now, I would like to talk about London’s Hydrogen Highway system that is being built not only to support the black taxis […]
Continue ReadingCritics have been talking about how the Transport for London project which includes building several H2 buses for the British metropolitan area is not as green of a project as it appears. And, they have a point. The five hydrogen powered buses will be build in Northern Ireland, then shipped 17,240 miles roundtrip to San […]
Continue ReadingUTC Power has announced that their 5 kW fuel cell is being used inside a new BMW Series 1 Hybrid electric car. The unveiling this week was during the 25th anniversary BMW ZT celebration in Munich, Germany. UTC has been working on this fuel cell since 1999. According to UTC Vice President, Ken Stewart, “From […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked about hydrogen powered lift trucks and forklifts a dozen times over the past few years. And, I’m about to add to this total, making it a baker’s dozen. A company called Genco was awarded $6.1 million as part of the U. S. government’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to purchase 25 hydrogen fuel […]
Continue ReadingIn December 2009, I had talked about research on using graphite and graphene by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Princeton University as potential ways to store hydrogen fuel. Now, government and academia have teamed up again as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Pennsylvania are developing another […]
Continue ReadingResearchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that energy waste in the form of small vibrations or noises can be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. This recapture of energy would create hydrogen fuel renewably and sustainably. With the aid of ultrasonic vibrations, and a phenomenon called the piezoelectric effect, fibers at […]
Continue ReadingRecently, I had the pleasure of communicating with Todd Norman, author of Ideas to Save the Planet. I put a few questions to him about the role of hydrogen. Here is the question and answer session: HydroKevin (HK): What is your vision of a global conversion to a hydrogen economy especially concerning the building of […]
Continue ReadingI get tired of the Chicken Little’s of the world or the advocates of other alternative fuel vehicles comparing hydrogen cars to the Hindenburg. The Hindenburg fallacy I’ve addressed on the website, blog and in numerous emails ad nauseam. Numerous manufacturers including GM and Honda have put their cars through extensive crash tests to make […]
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