October 8th is National Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Day every year now since the 114th U. S. Congress made a unanimous declaration pushing this day into existence on September 28, 2015. My website went live in late 2005 and I published my first blog post about hydrogen and fuel cells on April 05, 2006. In • Read More »
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12th International Hydrail Conference: 27-28 June, 2017
May 17, 2017 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on 12th International Hydrail Conference: 27-28 June, 2017 | Filed in: Conferences, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Economy, Hyrail, Infrastructure, News.Graz, Austria — 27-28 June, 2017 by guest blogger, Stan Thompson It’s been a dozen years since former Mooresville, NC, USA, Mayor Bill Thunberg, Appalachian State University Research Anaylst, Jason W. Hoyle and I first undertook to midwife hydrogen fuel cell based railway traction into being. Our goal was mostly environmental but we also had a • Read More »
Hydrail: A Pullet Surprise
April 13, 2017 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Hydrail: A Pullet Surprise | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Vehicles, Infrastructure, News.by guest blogger Stan Thompson If anyone out there is a friend of CNN’s Nadine Schmidt, please do five things: Buy Nadine a really nice steak dinner! Thank her for her excellent segment on hydrail April 12 (http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/12/technology/germany-hydrogen-powered-train/). Give her my eternal thanks for exhuming perhaps the deepest—and most regrettably—buried environmental story of the 21st century. Tell her about • Read More »
Hydrail Trains Are Running Too Late: Here’s Why
October 31, 2016 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Hydrail Trains Are Running Too Late: Here’s Why | Filed in: Advocates, Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Infrastructure, Myths, News.by guest blogger Stan Thompson It’s been 18 years since Dr. Holger Busche proposed that German electric passenger trains could run on wind energy carried on board as hydrogen. Once pointed out, it was an obvious thing to pursue; but the first German hydrail train won’t go into service until late next year. The impediment hasn’t • Read More »
Whoa! It’s National Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Day, October 8th
October 7, 2016 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Whoa! It’s National Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Day, October 8th | Filed in: News.Whoa! It’s National Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Day, October 8th To check out how to celebrate, please go on over to: http://hydrogenandfuelcellday.org/
Eleventh International Hydrail Conference: a first look at the program
June 15, 2016 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Eleventh International Hydrail Conference: a first look at the program | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Organizations, News, Uncategorized.by guest blogger Stan Thompson This year’s “11-IHC” is the first event since the International Hydrail Conference series began in 2005 when a major focus of the agenda will be on hydrogen fuel cell passenger railway equipment already being manufactured and in service. (see http://www.hydrail.org) China now has two hydrail trams in production. One is • Read More »
Happy EarthDay Hydrogen Car Folks!!!
April 22, 2016 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Happy EarthDay Hydrogen Car Folks!!! | Filed in: News.Happy EarthDay Hydrogen Car Folks!!!
Cowabunga! It’s National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, October 8th
October 8, 2015 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: News.It’s the 1st ever National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, October 8th, 2015 – Cowabunga, dudes and dudettes! By unanimous consent of S.Res.217, the U. S. Senate has declared this a day to celebrate hydrogen and fuel cells. Sponsored by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) this resolution was introduced on July 8, 2015 and was made • Read More »
Yes, Google, there is a hydrail
June 12, 2015 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Yes, Google, there is a hydrail | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Vehicles, Infrastructure, News.by guest blogger Stan Thompson Dear Google: “hydrail” is really a word, and has been since at least February of 2004 when it appeared in an invited article in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (volume 29, issue 4, page 438). It was used as early as 2003 in an invited presentation at the US DOT’s • Read More »
Hydrail commercializing: the 2015 Mooresville conference
June 4, 2015 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Hydrail commercializing: the 2015 Mooresville conference | Filed in: Conferences, Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Organizations, Infrastructure, News.by guest blogger Stan Thompson For ten years now, the Appalachian State University and Mooresville NC originators of the International Hydrail Conference series have predicted, explained and advocated hydrogen railway traction. Now, like a teenager suddenly outgrowing all her clothes, hydrail is coming of age—commercially and with a vengeance! This is the theme of 10-IHC, • Read More »