Archives: Hydrogen Fuel Distribution

The California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) in Sacramento plans to have 46 retail hydrogen fueling stations in place in six communities by 2014. The H2 fueling stations will be enough to accommodate 4,300 passenger vehicles and 20 fuel cell buses. Right now in California there are 26 hydrogen fueling stations throughout the state, but only • Read More »

In January, I had talked about the Asemblon Hydrnol liquid hydrogen carrier that is a room-temperature hydrogen rich chemical compound that can easily separate the H2 to be used for internal combustion engines or fuel cell vehicles. According to Asemblon, their liquid hydrogen carrier can greatly reduce the cost of building a nationwide fueling station • Read More »

In the U. S., California leads other states with 29 hydrogen fueling stations in operation (but not all open to the public). According to the National Hydrogen Association website, New York state has only one operational hydrogen fueling station in White Plains with six more planned elsewhere around the state in the near future. One • Read More »

Back in the day when a man would ride through the desert on a horse with no name, few would have envisioned at that time a land with whipping wind turbines and hydrogen fueling stations. But, if Palm Springs, California Mayor Steve Pougnet gets his way that is exactly what will happen with this upscale • Read More »

There has been some talk in the past couple of months about hydrogen cities or at the very least geographic hydrogen clusters of cars and fueling stations within these very large cities. The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has advocated that clusters of cars and hydrogen fueling stations in particular large cities such as Los Angeles, • Read More »

In the past, it was presumed that building a nationwide infrastructure of hydrogen fueling stations would cost around $2 million per station. Shell Hydrogen said this was the cost for their Washington DC H2 fueling station. According to USA Today, “Shell’s only existing hydrogen filling station, in the Washington, D.C., area, cost $2 million.” Since • Read More »

The Linde Group, based in Munich, Germany is opening up the world’ first hydrogen fueling station for fuel cell ships in Hamburg’s City Park. In January 2008, I had talked about how Zemships (zero emission ships) would be cruising around the Hamburg harbor starting this summer. The first 100-passenger Zemship will carry passengers around both • Read More »

There is an excellent webcast by Mr. Robert Walker, a retired Pennsylvania Congressman of 20 years and Vice Chairman of the Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Technical Advisory Committee that gives an overview of hydrogen cars and the building of the supporting infrastructure and economy. Many of the ideas he speaks about I’ve also talked • Read More »

In Los Angeles, California on Santa Monica Boulevard a new public Shell hydrogen station is set to open. This hydrogen station is different than many in that it will also dispense gasoline to drivers along this busy street in the heart of the city. The timing couldn’t be any better. With GM’s Project Driveway in • Read More »

Last week I talked about Yellow taxis running on propane and the new Honda Civic GX CNG (compressed natural gas) vehicle that was making some people take notice. This has brought to mind the possibility of using the current natural gas infrastructure as a starting point for the hydrogen vehicle infrastructure. Currently, most of the • Read More »