Recently I had the pleasure of having an email conversation with Mathilde Perreux from MaHyTec about their invention of the world’s first hydrogen-powered riding lawnmower. Pictured is the riding lawnmower and right above the seat in the white enclosure is where the hydrogen tanks are contained. Here is our conversation: HydroKevin (HK): Why did your • Read More »
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Hydrogen Fueled Lawnmower Engine Expected This Summer
May 20, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 4 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.H2 Technologies Group out of Reno, Nevada is betting on a hydrogen fueled lawnmower engine it is developing and which is due out this summer. According to NNBW, “Small engines powered by hydrogen would produce no emissions. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency says one gas-powered lawnmower produces as much pollution as 11 cars. If their • Read More »
Oregon Inventor Builds Hydrogen Cars and Lawnmowers
April 1, 2009 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Entrepreneurs.Oregon inventor Abe Fouhy has converted a 1999 Ford Contour to run on hydrogen and has also built lawnmowers and BBQ grills that run on H2 as well. In addition, the 28-year-old inventor also hopes to one day run his 1905 farmhouse on hydrogen. Working as an intern at a fuel cell technology company, Fouhy • Read More »
Hydrogen Inventors Get Their Own App
May 24, 2012 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 4 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Economy.Well, it’s about time, really. Applications makers have invented apps for all kinds of things like opening your garage door, starting your car and even giving you free on-demand GPS while you’re in the car. Now, a team of companies has gone one step further by developing an app for inventors who want to work • Read More »
San Diego Teen Inventor to Display Hydrogen Hybrid Engine
May 12, 2008 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Entrepreneurs.Dr. Roger E. Billings started his long and illustrious career in hydrogen, by converting a gasoline-powered lawnmower engine to run on H2. Now, half a century later, 17-year-old San Diego high school student Josh Wesolowski has built a hybrid lawnmower engine that runs on unleaded gasoline, propane, methanol and hydrogen. The lawnmower engine starts with • Read More »
Hydrogen Work Vehicles Get the Job Done
August 30, 2007 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Hydrogen Work Vehicles Get the Job Done | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.They may not be as sexy as hydrogen cars parading down the road from one green event to the next with photo ops with congressmen and governors, but some less glamorous hydrogen vehicles are also starting to grab the public’s attention. For instance, lawnmower-maker Toro has paraded out its hydrogen-powered Workman utility vehicle at the • Read More »
Denny Klein’s Aquygen Boosts Gas Mileage with Hydrogen
July 10, 2007 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 13 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.Denny Klein, founder of Hydrogen Technology Applications in Clearwater, Florida says he is boosting gas mileage from ordinary cars up to 30-percent using hydrogen gas. The company’s patented Aquygen product or HHO gas was developed for cleaning and hotter burning blowtorches for the welding industry. They are currently selling the H2O 1500 Aquygen Gas Generator • Read More »
Hydrogen Powered Car Forum Helps Home Inventors
April 9, 2007 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 3 Comments | Filed in: Entrepreneurs.The Hydro Power Car forum is the true garage inventor’s dream message board, where those interested in building a better mousetrap congregate to share ideas about how to create supplemental hydrogen to power cars, lawnmowers and any other device that can be run on fossil fuels. On this forum participants share ideas about successes and • Read More »
Toro Turf Maintenance Vehicle Goes Hydrogen
April 5, 2007 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Toro Turf Maintenance Vehicle Goes Hydrogen | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.Toro, the maker of tough turf and lawn care vehicles has teamed with Nuvera Fuel Cells to turn a test vehicle into one that runs on hydrogen. Nuvera will supply the PowerFlow PFV-5 fuel cell system that will go into a Toro Workman utility vehicle. This green project is part of a contract with the • Read More »