Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Includes hydrogen infrastructure issues not covered in production, storage and distribution areas.
Posted on September 2nd, 2012 By guest blogger, Stan Thompson According to Wikipedia, Willie Sutton claimed never to have said the words that elevated him in history from a habitual law-breaker to authorship of Sutton’s Law. Sutton was a notoriously successful bank robber—the original “Slick Willie.” His notoriety earned him a famous, though apocryphal, interview […]
Continue ReadingBy guest blogger, Stan Thompson The Centre for Railway Research and Education at the University of Birmingham, UK, hosts this year’s International Hydrail Conference (IHC) on 3 and 4 July and the trend is clearly toward putting hydrogen on the main line. Hosting the Hydrail Conference in the UK was the idea of U. Birmingham […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson The 7th International Hydrail Conference (“7IHC”) will be held one week later than originally planned so that conferees at an important German rail conference can attend both events. During the 20th century, coal-fired steam locomotives gave way to diesel and external electric traction power. Now, in the 21st, diesel and […]
Continue ReadingBy guest blogger Stan Thompson The University of Birmingham, UK, will host the next International Hydrail Conference there in the summer of 2012 in cooperation with Appalachian State University. Dates and details will be available in late September, 2011, on the hydrail web site of the Energy Center at “App State” in Boone, North Carolina: […]
Continue ReadingYesterday I had talked about how Daimler and Linde were putting up 20 hydrogen fueling stations in Germany to create an initial skeletal hydrogen refueling infrastructure for when H2 cars hit the showrooms within the next few years. I had also talked about how the U. S. could also put up a skeletal hydrogen refueling […]
Continue Readingby guest columnist Stan Thompson You are so unlikely to believe this that I’ll let Google tell you; enter this search argument in your browser: copper + church + (steal OR stolen OR theft) As of this writing, that entry nets well over ten million Google responses and over five million from Yahoo. An EPA […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson When asked “How’s your wife?” Henny Youngman famously quipped, “Compared to what?” Lately I’ve been conflicted by the flurry of interest in High Speed Rail and the several states whose governors have “just said ‘no thank you.’” My hunch is that they may have made the right call for the […]
Continue ReadingIt’s not gambling if the State does it. At least that is what they say. Holding state or multi-state lotteries for building hydrogen production facilities and fueling stations is not my idea. One of our commenters, David sent in the idea a few days ago about a blog I had written in 2007 about the […]
Continue ReadingIn May 2010 I had talked about how General Motors and The Gas Company in Hawaii were teaming up to bring hydrogen cars and refueling infrastructure to the island of Oahu. In December 2008, I had talked about the Hydrogen Fueling Station Cluster Model proposed by the Rochester Institute of Technology for putting up fueling […]
Continue ReadingThe consultancy firm McKinsey and Company, sponsored by a group of large automakers and energy companies conducted a study and found that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are viable and needed technology in the field of alternative cars. To be fair, the study also says that Battery Electric Vehicles (BAVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles (PHEVs) also […]
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