A couple of weeks ago I read where the West Coast Electric Highway was now open for business, starting in Oregon and the plans are for it to reach all the way to the southern tip of California. This got me to thinking about whatever happened to the West Coast Hydrogen Highway. For a while, • Read More »
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Is Carbazole the Energy Carrier of the Future?
March 21, 2012 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 3 Comments | Filed in: Uncategorized.By Guest Blogger Keith D. Patch According to Wikipedia, N-ethylcarbazole (C14H13N) was used as a chemical weapon (irritant) in World War I. Now it (and related organic compounds) is being investigated as a hydrogen transport material for fuel cell vehicles. In 2011 I read some news out of Germany about a “new” method of carrying • Read More »
Polymer Fuel Cell Challenge Aims to Bring Down Costs
February 28, 2012 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Uncategorized.The Carbon Trust, a UK non-profit company, has thrown down the gauntlet with its Polymer Fuel Cell Challenge which aims to bring down the costs of fuel cells and commercialize them in the near future. In the latest part of this challenge the Carbon Trust has put up ½ million British pounds in a collaboration • Read More »
U.S. Army Unveils Fleet of 16 Hydrogen Vehicles in Hawaii
February 23, 2012 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Uncategorized.The U. S. Army has unveiled a fleet of 16 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in Hawaii manufactured by General Motors. According to the press release, “The zero-emission vehicles, funded by the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), Office of Naval Research and Air Force Research Laboratories, are being tested in Hawaii’s • Read More »
UKH2Mobility Plan Offers Road Map for Upcoming Hydrogen Cars
January 18, 2012 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Uncategorized.I’ve talked many times over the past years about the German H2Mobility plan. Germany and the surrounding countries have been planning a European Union Hydrogen Highway system for the past decade. Part of this H2 highway system has included the United Kingdom. Well, now the UK has decided to get more focused on the 2015 • Read More »
Titanium-Doped Aluminum Breakthrough in Hydrogen Storage and Fuel Cells
October 27, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 3 Comments | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Fuel Storage, Hydrogen Fuel Tanks, Uncategorized.There’s been a lot of research in materials sciences in finding cheaper alternatives in which to store hydrogen or use as catalysts for hydrogen reactions. Most of this breakthrough technology perpetually seems to be 10 to 20 years away before commercialization. This is why when I heard about what the researchers at the University of • Read More »
Pearl Harbor Gets Proton OnSite Hydrogen Fueling Station
August 26, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Pearl Harbor Gets Proton OnSite Hydrogen Fueling Station | Filed in: Uncategorized.Today, a Proton OnSite FuelGen C30 proton exchange membrane electrolyzer will arrive at the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) facility outside of Honolulu, Hawaii. The PEM electrolyzer will use the same platform as the SunHydro fueling station at the Wallingford, Connecticut office. According to Proton OnSite, “The electrolyzer at JBPHH will support the tri-service Hawaii • Read More »
Pike Research Predicts 5,200 Future H2 Fueling Stations by 2020
July 21, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations, Uncategorized.Yesterday I had talked about the further commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell forklifts. Today I would like to talk about this again with a different slant on the story. Pike Research has come out with a study predicting that there will be 5,200 hydrogen fueling stations operational by the year 2020. What is interesting to • Read More »
Baking Powder as Fuel for Hydrogen Cars
June 16, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Baking Powder as Fuel for Hydrogen Cars | Filed in: Uncategorized.As silly as this first may seem, let’s not throw any alternative off the table just yet when it comes to future fuel sources for hydrogen cars. A team of researchers at Leibnitz Institute for Catalysis (Rostock, Germany) believe that common baking soda holds the key for chemical hydrogen storage that is recyclable. According to • Read More »
Bulk Metallic Glass Nanowires Make Fuel Cells More Efficient
April 5, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Uncategorized.Today the UConn Huskies are getting all the Hoopla for winning the NCAA Basketball Championship beating the Butler Bulldogs quite handily. But, just down the road a spell is something more important, flying under the radar, affecting our energy future. Scientists at Yale have discovered how to make fuel cells more efficient using Bulk Metallic • Read More »