Category: Hydrogen Fuel Production

Florida Atlantic University researchers are investigating the merits of developing underwater turbines along Florida’s Gulfstream to provide electricity for homes and generate hydrogen for cars. The Gulfstream for ships (similar in some ways to the jet stream for airplanes) help vessels move more quickly from the Caribbean, around Florida and into the upper-North Atlantic. Before […]

George W. Bush called Iran an “Axis of Evil”. And there is no doubt U. S relations with that country have been strained at best especially after the most recent questionable election. But, one of the positive qualities of researchers and scientists working within a global economy is that politics plays less of a role […]

Now, this may sounds like something out of an old episode of Star Trek (the ones where William Shatner plays James T. Kirk), but Italian scientists today have discovered a way to create hydrogen using lasers and water. Researchers at Florence University have had success firing their laser beams at water to separate it into […]

I’ve talked in the past many times about using aluminum hydrides, magnesium hydrides or other hydrogen chemical storage methods such as sodium borohydride. Now, the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) and their Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) have cracked the code on reusable aluminum hydrides, which they refer to as “alane” to store hydrogen […]

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena are using a desktop inkjet printer to help solve the problem of turning solar energy directly into hydrogen. The researchers are printing out hundreds of dots of dissimilar materials on glass in order to assess how these materials react to sunlight and produce energy. The scientists are […]

The Linde Group has decided that double dipping will increase their revenues when creating alternative fuels of the future. In Leuna, Germany, the Linde Group is setting up a plant that will produce biodiesel first and then use the glycerin byproduct to produce hydrogen for cars. The hydrogen will then be purified and liquefied at […]

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Northeastern University have discovered an important finding on a nano scale in regard to solar to hydrogen production. The scientists have discovered that tiny amounts of potassium on the nanotubes help break the bonds of water, creating hydrogen in a more efficient manner. Producing […]

The Energy and Environmental Research Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota has developed a way to reform various liquids at the pump into hydrogen under high pressure. This means that methanol, ethanol, gasoline and other alcohol fuels can be transported to these stations, then reformed into hydrogen at the pump, eliminating the need to carry […]

Retired Apollo Engineer Adrian F has a unique vision of the future that involves ships out on the ocean using nuclear power to generate hydrogen from sea water. These ships could be miles out and away from the danger zone, coming to shore only to refuel and deposit the hydrogen. According to an email from […]

In the past I’ve talked about the thermochemical cracking of water into hydrogen and high temperature water cracking using electrolysis at nuclear power plants. The thinking is that if we already have nuclear power plants generating waste heat, we might as well put it to good use, generating hydrogen for cars, hydrail, hyboats and other […]