Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Last Friday I had talked about the building of a hydrogen corridor from West Virginia to Pittsburgh, PA. What I had neglected to mention, however is that at the Yeager Airport in Charleston, WV one of the test vehicles will be a hydrogen powered forklift. Now, many might not find the idea of hydrogen forklifts […]
Continue ReadingA couple of weeks ago I was wondering out loud if General Motor’s Project Driveway would survive given their cuts induced by the bankruptcy courts. According to CNET, GM’s plans to keep charging full steam ahead with hydrogen cars are safe, for now. According to Alan Taub who takes over October 1, 2009 for Larry Burns, […]
Continue ReadingThe Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia is opening its first hydrogen fueling station next week. The U. S. DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will be installing the H2 fueling station as a test and research facility. The airport is getting several hydrogen vehicles to test from the DOE and they will also be […]
Continue ReadingBoth the sun and water are natural companions since they are both made up mostly of hydrogen. But, the problems always has been and continues to be that breaking the bonds of hydrogen and oxygen in water has taken too much energy to be economically viable. Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in […]
Continue ReadingWith auto sales crashing and burning this past year in the U. S., Honda is holding steadfast in its development of hydrogen cars. Honda is known throughout the automobile industry for its good judgment and forward thinking. For instance, because Honda has focused on rolling out production of smaller, more fuel efficient cars, it actually […]
Continue ReadingThe following companies have developed a fuel cell the runs in the ultra cold weather expected in Scandinavian countries: Volvo Technology AB, StatoilHydro ASA, SINTEF, the Danish company H2 Logic AS and Powercell Sweden AB. They say this new fuel cell will replace diesel fuel in forklifts and some of the diesel fuel used by […]
Continue ReadingThe Boomerang unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by Bluebird Aero Systems and Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies (which they are calling an Unmanned Aerial System or UAS) is the first commercial aircraft of this type to be powered by commercial hydrogen fuel cells. In the past I’ve talked about several other non-commercial UAV’s such as the […]
Continue ReadingToyota along with the Department of Energy (DOE), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) decided to test the automaker’s hydrogen SUV for mileage and range in real world conditions. A little over a year ago, I had talked about the Toyota Highlander Hydrogen Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle – Advanced having […]
Continue ReadingI’ve already talked about the Japanese hydrogen highway system that has been growing over the past few years. Now, the plan is for Japan to extend this hydrogen highway system for the entire country by 2015. This is good news for Japanese car manufacturers such as Toyota, Nissan and Mazda that all have their own […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked many times about either using ammonia or aluminum compounds as a chemical carrier for hydrogen and large scale production of H2 gas. Now scientists in separate facilities are excited about their findings in both of these areas. Researchers at the DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have discovered that combining ammonia borane (H3NBH3), […]
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