Hydrogen trains (hydrail) are coming around the bend slowly but surely. When gleaned from clean sources, hydrogen is a very green, environmentally friendly source of power transmission that contributes no harmful emissions and is virtually limitless as a source of energy storage and transport. Thanks to continual advances, hydrogen is now being used in fuel • Read More »
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Hydrogen Rumor Mill
August 7, 2015 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | No Comments | Filed in: .Hydrogen Rumor Mill This is the hydrogen rumor mill page. On this page we’ve decided to place some factual, semi-factual, downright non-factual material along with conjecture, hear-say and basic run-of-the-mill rumors. We’ve also decided to mix in some truth, just to throw you off. As we’re able to verify or negate the validity of the • Read More »
European Union Hydrogen Highway
August 7, 2015 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | No Comments | Filed in: .European Union Hydrogen Highway The European Union hydrogen highway network is at present a loose affiliation of H2 refueling stations developed by various countries. Leading the charge is Germany who has the most hydrogen refueling stations with 30 followed by everyone else. European Union Hydrogen Highway But, the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have • Read More »
Hydrail in Germany: another welcome first
February 28, 2015 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Hydrail in Germany: another welcome first | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Vehicles, Hyrail, Infrastructure.by guest blogger Stan Thompson About 12 years ago, when I first became interested in what’s now called hydrail (hybrid hydrogen fuel cell and battery railway traction), I caught a glimmer of the idea online from Germany in the State of Schleswig-Holstein. Someone there had seen that wireless electric trains could be powered by wind turbines via hydrogen • Read More »
High Speed Rail Celebration at Hydrail’s Second Home
October 3, 2014 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on High Speed Rail Celebration at Hydrail’s Second Home | Filed in: Conferences, Hydrail, Hydrogen Education.by Guest Blogger Stan Thompson For three days this December, the 8th, 9th and 10th, the University of Birmingham UK will host the 50th anniversary celebration of the birth of High Speed Rail. The blessed event occurred in Japan in 1964 with the opening of Tokyo’s Shinkansen line. Many of the top experts in this most fascinating (and literally “dashing”) element of • Read More »
United Hydrail Nations
September 17, 2014 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on United Hydrail Nations | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Education, Hydrogen Organizations, Hydrogen Vehicles, Hyrail, Infrastructure.by guest blogger Stan Thompson This update follows much farther behind the wonderfully successful 9th International Hydrail Conference in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (June 2014) than I had intended. The reason is one I can’t regret: the cast of international players on the hydrail stage has grown so large, and there are so many intertwining plots, that I can hardly keep up • Read More »
Neumünster, Germany, Hosts 9th International Hydrail Conference
May 22, 2014 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Neumünster, Germany, Hosts 9th International Hydrail Conference | Filed in: Conferences, Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Vehicles, Hyrail, Infrastructure, News.by guest blogger Stan Thompson Neumünster, in the Northern German State of Schleswig-Holstein, will host the Ninth International Hydrail Conference (“9IHC”) on 16-18 June this year (2014). This year’s registration details, presenters and agenda information appear on the Appalachian State University hydrail web site, http://www.hydrail.org. German support for the Hydrail Conference has proved so strong that, for the • Read More »
A Hydrail Update – Just Because
December 7, 2013 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on A Hydrail Update – Just Because | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Infrastructure.By guest blogger Stan Thompson It has been too long since I wrote here about hydrail so, to avoid any perception that the issue is coasting down, I’m taking a moment to update the Hydrogen Cars Now readership. So far from coasting down, hydrail activity has been so intense that I’ve haven’t found time to • Read More »
27 Hydrogen Stations Opened in 2012
March 27, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.Twenty-seven hydrogen fueling stations opened worldwide in the year 2012. This, according to H2Stations.org who tracks the openings and closings of hydrogen fueling stations all over the earth. The addition of 27 new stations brings the total to 208 H2 fueling stations worldwide. Eighty stations are in Europe, 76 in North America, 49 in Asia • Read More »
2013 HYDRAIL CONFERENCE IN TORONTO
January 16, 2013 | By Stan Thompson | 1 Comment | Filed in: Conferences, Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Boats, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Fuel Production, Hydrogen Organizations, News.by guest blogger Stan Thompson Toronto (Ontario) Canada will be the location of the Eighth International Hydrail Conference (8IHC) on 11 and 12 June, 2013. The venue and the first of the slate of presenters will be announced shortly. The International Hydrail Conferences are annual gatherings of academic, government and rail industry experts to expedite • Read More »