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 »
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HYDRAIL, FRACKING AND WILLIE SUTTON
September 2, 2012 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on HYDRAIL, FRACKING AND WILLIE SUTTON | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Fuel Production, Hydrogen Fueling Stations, Hydrogen Vehicles, Hyrail, Infrastructure, Political Issues.Posted on September 2nd, 2012 By guest blogger, Stan Thompson According to Wikipedia, Willie Sutton claimed never to have said the words that elevated him in history from a habitual law-breaker to authorship of Sutton’s Law. Sutton was a notoriously successful bank robber—the original “Slick Willie.” His notoriety earned him a famous, though apocryphal, interview • Read More »
HYDRAIL 2012: THE BIRMINGHAM U.K. CONFERENCE
June 11, 2012 | By Stan Thompson | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Vehicles, Hyrail, Infrastructure.By guest blogger, Stan Thompson The Centre for Railway Research and Education at the University of Birmingham, UK, hosts this year’s International Hydrail Conference (IHC) on 3 and 4 July and the trend is clearly toward putting hydrogen on the main line. Hosting the Hydrail Conference in the UK was the idea of U. Birmingham • Read More »
HYDRAIL HISTORY: RIDE THE TRAIN IN SPAIN
December 8, 2011 | By Stan Thompson | 1 Comment | Filed in: Advocates, Fuel Cells, Hydrail, News.by guest blogger Stan Thompson Unless you have access to Dr. Who’s TARDIS or H. G. Wells’ Time Machine, you’ll have to depend on old texts to envision William Murdoch’s 1784 steam locomotive debut in Britain or Peter Cooper’s Tom Thumb, the first locomotive to run in America. But if you can afford an air • Read More »
University of Birmingham, UK, To Host 2012 Hydrail Conference
August 16, 2011 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on University of Birmingham, UK, To Host 2012 Hydrail Conference | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Infrastructure.By guest blogger Stan Thompson The University of Birmingham, UK, will host the next International Hydrail Conference there in the summer of 2012 in cooperation with Appalachian State University. Dates and details will be available in late September, 2011, on the hydrail web site of the Energy Center at “App State” in Boone, North Carolina: • Read More »
Hydrail: Putting the Car Before the (Iron) Horse
June 24, 2011 | By Stan Thompson | 2 Comments | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Cars, Hydrogen Economy.by guest blogger Stan Thompson Perhaps the single greatest impediment to the advent of the hydrogen economy has been the media-led insistence that hydrogen fuel cell technology is an automotive design experiment that has not yet been made to work. The ubiquity issue—the controlling obstacle unique to the car application—is never examined. Mention hydrogen and • Read More »
Hydrail Economics: Consider the Alternative
March 28, 2011 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Hydrail Economics: Consider the Alternative | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Fuel Production, Infrastructure.by guest blogger Stan Thompson When asked “How’s your wife?” Henny Youngman famously quipped, “Compared to what?” Lately I’ve been conflicted by the flurry of interest in High Speed Rail and the several states whose governors have “just said ‘no thank you.’” My hunch is that they may have made the right call for the • Read More »
NPR’s Ira Flatow Helped Hydrail Too
February 11, 2011 | By Stan Thompson | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Education.by guest blogger Stan Thompson In my February 10, 2011, commendation of public broadcasting for its help in raising hydrail awareness, I failed to credit Ira Flatow’s excellent program, Talk of the Nation – Science Friday. On September 4, 2009, Ira ran a great segment on hydrail but never mentioned the technology by name. Web • Read More »