Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Well, you just got to pee it to believe it. That’s what some schoolgirls in Nigeria, Africa are saying. They have created an electrolytic cell that takes in urine and outputs hydrogen. The teenage girls presented their new invention at the Maker Faire Africa 2012 in Lagos, Nigeria. The girls are Bello Eniola (15), Akindele […]
Continue ReadingIn January of 2010 I talked about the University of Rochester in New York creating artificial leaves for hydrogen production. Now the same university is putting a slightly different bend on hydrogen production from a slightly different angle. The catalyst for the artificial photosynthesis process doesn’t use platinum or any other expensive metals. Instead the […]
Continue ReadingA few days ago I received an email press release from Josie C.Y. Yu from APFCT, Ltd. The press release concerned the Fuel Cell Scooter Experience Project Launch that took place November 9, 2012 in Taiwan. On that day the general public was given 80 hydrogen fuel cell scooters by APFCT to use free of […]
Continue ReadingOn June 3, 2011 I had talked about building a hydrogen car refueling infrastructure that mimics the compressed natural gas (CNG) refueling infrastructure that is already in place in the United States. The idea behind this suggestion is to not reinvent the wheel and to avoid mimicking the gasoline refueling infrastructure (120,000 gasoline stations nationwide). […]
Continue ReadingJust two days after the national election, two car magazines are pondering the possibilities that second-term President Obama will be friendly to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles this time around. Largely because of the cool attitude of Energy Secretary Stephen Chu, the President hadn’t warmed up to fuel cells in the first part of his first […]
Continue ReadingHurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane in history, which devastated parts of the Caribbean islands and the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, is still being felt by many of the people it has affected. As of a few days ago there were still over 2 million people without power in New York and New […]
Continue ReadingResearchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have discovered an enzyme that is able to produce 10,000 molecules of hydrogen per second. This enzyme with a double-iron core called an (FeFe) hydrogenase is the key to the conversion process. According to the RUB researchers, “In […]
Continue ReadingSometimes when you get stuck at an impasse in regard to technological progress it is worth taking a look into the past to see what had worked then. And this is just what John Turner of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is doing is regard to creating hydrogen from water and sunlight. In 1998 […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked about the company Air Products many times in the past as one of the world’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of hydrogen gas. Now, the company has dedicated the world’s largest hydrogen pipeline running between Texas and Louisiana. According to Your Houston News, “Air Products, the leading global hydrogen provider, formally dedicated its Gulf […]
Continue ReadingI had talked several times previously in this blog about the European Hydrogen Road Tour that took place in September and October 2012. Now I want to talk about some of the valuable lessons and insights gained from the road tour. Copenhagen was the final stop on the tour. And as such all of the […]
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