There’s been a lot of talk about California’s high-speed electric train (bullet train) speeding to and from all major cities in the Golden State with a hefty price tag of $37 billion. But, there is another new technology that has mostly slipped under the radar and that is: hydrogen trains. Hydrolley (hydrogen trolleys) and hydrail • Read More »
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Hydrogen Trolleys Are No Folly, Go Hydrolley
November 19, 2008 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrail.Now, I’ve talked about hydrogen trains or hydrail a number of times over the past. But, one area that I haven’t mentioned yet are hydrogen trolleys or hydrolley as they are calling it. Streetcars in general have made a resurgence over the years and not just in San Francisco, but in many other large and • Read More »
Hydrail
October 18, 2015 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Hydrail | Filed in: .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 »
Hydrail: a boost from Warren Buffet?
March 6, 2013 | By Stan Thompson | 1 Comment | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Organizations, Hydrogen Vehicles, Infrastructure.by guest blogger Stan Thompson At first glance, Russell Gold’s March 5, 2013, Wall Street Journal story, “Berkshire’s BNSF Railway to Test Switch to Natural Gas,” looked like such a big splash that the hydrail boat might get swamped. But a closer look suggests that hydrail—the emerging hydrogen fuel cell hybrid technology for railroad propulsion—is • Read More »
General Electric may play Santa with Hydrail Train
December 24, 2012 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on General Electric may play Santa with Hydrail Train | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Buses, Hydrogen Economy, Infrastructure.by guest blogger, Stan Thompson If I get my long-awaited hydrail “electric train” for Christmas, in may be the GE Global Research Electric Propulsion Systems Lab engineers who drop it down the chimney, not Saint Nick. So far they’re talking buses, not trains, but the rail application is a no-brainer. This month GE unveiled a dual-battery • Read More »
Hydrail and Sandy: Learning the Hard Way
November 1, 2012 | By Stan Thompson | 3 Comments | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Infrastructure, News, Political Issues.Posted on November 1, 2012 By guest blogger, Stan Thompson What you won’t hear, but should, in news coverage about Hurricane Sandy and transit service interruptions is that hydrail—hydrogen fuel cell/battery hybrid—subway trains would be much less impacted by salt water flooding. That’s not to say subway service could have continued. Signaling, switching and many • Read More »
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 »
UK Hydrail Conference Date Change Now July 3 – 4, 2012
February 14, 2012 | By Stan Thompson | 2 Comments | Filed in: Conferences, Hydrail, Hyrail, Infrastructure, News.by guest blogger Stan Thompson The 7th International Hydrail Conference (“7IHC”) will be held one week later than originally planned so that conferees at an important German rail conference can attend both events. During the 20th century, coal-fired steam locomotives gave way to diesel and external electric traction power. Now, in the 21st, diesel and • 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 »
Hydrail: Spain Leaps Ahead!
October 10, 2011 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Hydrail: Spain Leaps Ahead! | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Vehicles, News.By guest blogger Stan Thompson It’s way too easy to miss really important events in the history of hydrogen railroading if they don’t contain the magic searchable word “hydrail”. I missed a huge one last month: the demonstration of Europe’s (and perhaps the world’s) first hydrail train—or maybe the first hydrolley—now planned for regular passenger • Read More »