Archives: Hydrogen Fuel Production

Recently, experts are thinking that by 2030 we could be looking at hydrogen being as cheap as $1 per kilogram. That is the suggestion being made by some, including experts at Wood Mackenzie. This would be an incredible turn of events, delivering a more affordable access level for those looking to switch to hydrogen. It • Read More »

The COVID-19 lockdown offers plenty of chances for us to think about ways to advance the use of green hydrogen in the marketplace. One such solution comes from Nel Hydrogen and PNNL. The teams at Nel Hydrogen and also experts led by Wei Wang, the chief scientist for energy storage research at the Pacific Northwest • Read More »

As fuel cell vehicles rollout in California, Germany, Japan, the UK and elsewhere, creating an abundance of hydrogen is key to the success of the adoption of the vehicles. As fuel cell vehicles are considered to be disruptive technology so are the means of making hydrogen gas. One of the new ways of doing so • Read More »

There are two big stories this week in regard to new and promising research into cheap hydrogen production and I want to talk about both of them. In Israel, a startup company called H2Energy Now has developed a method using radio waves to zap water and extract the hydrogen gas. According to the Times of • Read More »

Spanish researchers who are part of the Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices Group are using high tech plastics plus sunlight to produce hydrogen from water. These plastics are organic in nature and could lead to cheap and abundant hydrogen production. According to Cordis, “One of the main challenges of the project, which will finish in November, • Read More »

Dr. Melanie Mormile, a researchers at Missouri S&T, has discovered that the extreme bacterium halanaerobium hydrogeninformans can produce large amounts of hydrogen under the right conditions. According to Missouri S&T, “Mormile, an expert in the microbial ecology of extreme environments, wasn’t searching for a bacterium that could produce hydrogen. Instead, she first became interested in • Read More »

Researchers at the University of Glasgow in Scotland (still part of the UK after the vote) have discovered a way to produce hydrogen 30 times faster than current renewable methods. This method allows hydrogen to be produced using less electricity, at atmospheric pressure and do so using renewable energy such as wind or solar. Professor • Read More »

Researchers in South Korea have succeeded in producing 74 times more hydrogen from water using sunlight and gold nanoparticles. Business Korea says, “According to the research team, gold nanoparticles are capable of producing hydrogen from water by absorbing visible rays at a low energy level and creating thermoelectrons. However, the production efficiency and practicality of • Read More »