Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Sometimes when I read the news, I get a “not in my neighborhood” feeling when it comes to hydrogen development. I’m chomping at the bit for hydrogen technology to become normalized to the point where I can have casual discussions about it with my neighbors as I would any other topic such as the price […]
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to Washington DC politics it’s not always clear whether the dog is wagging the tail or the tail is wagging the dog. Such is the case with hydrogen. Recently I talked about how President Obama once again has proposed to slash the hydrogen budget by $70 million through the Department of Energy […]
Continue ReadingAltruism isn’t dead and it may even lead to revolutionary and profitable products. This is what the University of California, Riverside engineering team is finding out as they were developing a way to help third world countries. The idea was to develop a device to harness energy from the sun, electrolyze water and capture hydrogen […]
Continue ReadingHere’s another story for all the naysayers, doomsdayers, end-of-worlders and Armageddon-ites when it comes to hydrogen. There was a big rig truck in Texas carrying compressed hydrogen gas that caught fire and partly burned. I say partly because the video shows the back end of the truck burned but not the middle or front. The […]
Continue ReadingUniversity of Tokyo researchers have developed photosensitive nanogels that are made into hydrogen nanogenerators. Researcher Kosuke Okeyoshi explains, “We have designed photoinduced hydrogen nanogenerators and fabricated them by a novel nanointegration method that uses nanogel as sensitizer and nanoparticles as catalyst. The nanogels involve a photoinduced electronic transmission circuit to realize a smart photoenergy-converting system.” […]
Continue ReadingIn August 2008 I had theorized that one day Big Gas could overtake Big Oil as the fuel supplier of the future. In April 2010 I pondered out loud the fact that Big Gas may have a conflict of interest in breaking away from Big Oil since Big Gas’s largest client, is in fact Big […]
Continue ReadingCreation of biodiesel, ethanol and other biofuels has not come without criticism. One of the criticisms of making biodiesel fuel has been what to do with the byproduct glycerol that is produced in massive amounts. Researchers at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN have come up with a unique solution which is to convert […]
Continue ReadingOnce again President Obama is proposing to cut the hydrogen budget from the DOE (Department of Energy). Apparently our President does think hydrogen has anything to do with clean energy since he is also proposing increasing spending on clean energy programs to $8 billion. The hydrogen funding cuts that Obama is proposing will amount to […]
Continue ReadingResearchers at the University of Glasgow are working with two companies, EADS and Hydrogen Horizons, using nanotechnology to alter hydrogen storage tanks for use in future airplanes. The researchers will be using a Hydrogen Horizons Hydrisafe tank and altering the materials used in it on a nanoscale to see if they can squeeze more H2 […]
Continue ReadingI like talking about hydrogen forklifts, so much so that I have a category dedicated just to this subject. The fact is that hydrogen fuel cell forklifts are being commercialized now and used in industrial settings because they offer many advantages over battery or fossil fueled powered forklifts. I won’t outline all of the benefits […]
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