Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
The category green hydrogen focuses on H2 produced by renewable energy sources like wind, solar and geothermal.
In the South Pacific Island of Vaitea Cowan, the company Enapter aims to fight back against the climate change. Their hydrogen technology, an electrolyzer, has recently won awards – the largely influential Earthshot Prize, no less – for its stunning progress in just three years of development. Today, some 30-percent of our energy is created […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson updated 12/21/2020 In the late 1800s Nikola Tesla took Thomas Edison’s DC and alternated the polarity back and forth so that its voltage could be stepped up by a transformer and hauled much further by overcoming electrical resistance. Way off in the distance, at the user end, another transformer stepped […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson In case you came in late, the synthesis epoch is when we started making stuff like fertilizer from renewable energy which, in the previous extraction epoch, we sourced by digging or pumping matter out of the ground. • Natural gas hydrogen is to electrolyzed H2 as jumper cables are to […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson Very different processes distribute the earth’s mineral wealth and the political configurations of its surface. Though different, they coincide in ways that profoundly impact our destinies. In the late industrial period, the relative value of energy has been so high, and energy extraction as oil and gas has been so […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson Davidson College is near our NC home and its proximity offers neighbors access to an astonishing parade of great minds. In 1962 I met cosmologist George Gamow there and got to ask him a few questions. Albert Einstein had died only seven years earlier; some would say Gamow was his […]
Continue ReadingUnderwater solar cells are being used to help create cheap hydrogen fuel directly from water. By using the power of the sun, the plan is simple: make sure that we can create hydrogen from sustainable, repeatable, ethical sources. And for many people, that is going to be this new plan that is being put together […]
Continue Reading“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.” Ralph Nader Wikipedia wisdom states, “No single energy storage method boasts the best in specific power, specific energy, and energy density.” As you know, everything in engineering is a compromise. No energy source is perfectly suitable […]
Continue ReadingThe first commercially produced consumer solar-hydrogen house has been created in Pennington, New Jersey by hydrogen pioneer, Mike Strizki. The dedication, which is by invitation only, will occur on Patriot Day, September 11, 2015 (however you can ask for an invitation on his website). In 2006, Mr. Strizki built his first hydrogen house at his […]
Continue ReadingHyperSolar has set record times in producing hydrogen using a submersible artificial photosynthesis device in water. The device uses sunlight only, without any outside power source, in order to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. According to the Wall Street Journal, “HyperSolar, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight […]
Continue ReadingI’ve talked about HyperSolar several times before over the past couple of years. And, now it’s time for another update of their sunlight + water = hydrogen technology. Battery electric vehicle advocates believe that the only use for solar power is to charge a battery directly. But, hydrogen advocates think otherwise. In steps HyperSolar with […]
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