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Hydrogen Fuel

August 7, 2015 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | No Comments | Filed in: .

Hydrogen Fuel Hydrogen fuel is also an energy carrier. In fact, many will argue that is all hydrogen fuel is. Since hydrogen does not occur on Earth in any significant amounts by itself (and this point is now up for debate and more natural hydrogen has been discovered) it must be separated from its chemical • Read More »

Iran Researchers Experiment with Hydrogen Cars

April 7, 2015 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.

Researchers at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, Iran are experimenting with a “chemical car” that runs on a hydrogen liquid chemical carrier. According to MehrNews.com, “In order to solve the energy crisis in the future, some of the researchers of Amirkabir University of Technology produced chemical cars with environmentally friendly fuel … “…He added • Read More »

Platinum Free Fuel Cell Developed by LANL Researchers

April 26, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 5 Comments | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have developed a platinum free fuel cell that uses carbon, iron and cobalt on the cathode end of the PEM hydrogen fuel cell. With platinum currently priced at $1,800 per ounce this element is one of the major costs when producing fuel cells. According to LANL, “The Los • Read More »

Hydrogen Helicopter Dragonfly DF1 for Personal Transport

September 21, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off | Filed in: Hydrogen Aircraft.

I’ve talked several times in the past about using hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as clean, zero emissions fuel for all kinds of vehicles including cars, jetpacks, planes, trains and even spacecraft. A little earlier this year another vehicle came onto the scene which is a hydrogen peroxide powered personal helicopter. The Avimech Dragonfly DF1 weighs just • Read More »

HULC Robotic Exoskeleton Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cell

January 26, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.

Okay, I’ll admit this is a stretch from the usual talk about hydrogen cars and vehicles. Let’s chalk this one up to “hydrogen transportation” or at least “hydrogen assisted transportation”. In the past, I’ve talked about the Honda ASIMO robot powered by fuel cell and a bionic arm powered by hydrogen peroxide. So, now when • Read More »

Great Scott, the Jet Pack Man Sets a World Speed Record!

May 11, 2009 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.

Powered by hydrogen peroxide, jet pack pilot Eric Scott has set a world speed record of 68 mph. In November 2008, I had talked about Scott setting a world record for distance and height in a hydrogen peroxide powered jet pack as he sailed 1,500 feet over a 1,000 feet abyss in Colorado. Now, Scott • Read More »

Bloodhound SSC Race Car Attempts 1,000 MPH Record with Hydrogen

November 6, 2008 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.

Yesterday I talked about the Formula H hydrogen racecar going for the Guinness World Record for land speed for cars in its class. And, several times in the past, I’ve talked about using clean, green hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as a future fuel for cars, where the only bi-products are steam and oxygen. Now, a racecar • Read More »

Hydrogen-Powered NASA VASIMR to Be Tested on ISS

August 7, 2008 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.

Two days ago I talked about jetpacks so today I thought I would speak a bit about rocket science in outer space. According to FlightGlobal, NASA is close to announcing the testing of their hydrogen-powered plasma fueled VASIMR engine on the International Space Station (ISS). The next step will be a scale model test of • Read More »

A Glimpse at Tomorrow’s Hydrogen Infrastructure

November 27, 2007 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 8 Comments | Filed in: Infrastructure.

Tomorrow’s hydrogen infrastructure will not be the same as today’s gasoline infrastructure. The naysayers of hydrogen technology point out how overwhelming it will be to set up a hydrogen infrastructure that models the current gasoline infrastructure and they may be right. Producing hydrogen gas in centralized facilities and then piping, trucking or sending it by • Read More »

Students Develop UK’s First Hydrogen Powered Race Car

July 17, 2007 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off | Filed in: Hydrogen Education.

Students at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom have developed the country’s first hydrogen race car. Engineering Ph.D. students, John Goddard and the ironically-named James Waters have converted a Formula Student racecar to run on hydrogen gas. The first Formula Student racecar to run on hydrogen will do so in a very green • Read More »