Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
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, […]
Continue ReadingBy 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
Continue ReadingI’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 […]
Continue ReadingThere’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 […]
Continue ReadingToday, 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 […]
Continue ReadingYesterday 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 […]
Continue ReadingAs 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 […]
Continue ReadingToday 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 […]
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