Presidents, princes, tycoons and actors are the latest recipients of the BMW Hydrogen 7 luxury car. April has been a very busy month for rolling out the BMW Hydrogen 7 as it has made its way to a couple of different continents and made it into the hands of a variety of notables.
On April 1 [...]
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Even though the hydrogen movement has been going on for decades and has picked up steam in recent months and years due to high gas prices, it has always been lacking one thing: a theme song.
Well, now those days are over as the Hydrogen Highway song by Elmers Youngest has been released. Hydrogen Highway is [...]
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The HydroGen Corporation has announced that they have started up a 400 kw hydrogen-powered phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC) at ASHTA Chemicals in Ashtabula, Ohio. This full-scale commercial demonstration project uses “by-product hydrogen” from the ASHTA plant that is created in the production of chlor-alkali.
The electricity created by the HydroGen PAFC is used to help [...]
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I received an email for Carolyn E. a few days back who makes several good points, so I thought I would post her words here along with my response.
Carolyn E.: “I was reviewing info on your site, as well as other websites. I have heard a lot about hydrogen cars and the big car companies [...]
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Yesterday, I talked with Larry Jarboe about his quest for energy independence for this country. Jarboe is St. Mary’s County Commissioner in southern Maryland and has been a long time advocate for biodiesel and electric vehicles.
More recently, Mr. Jarboe has turned his attention to hydrogen boosters (see hydrogen generators for cars) and spearheaded the 2008 [...]
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The Peugeot Citreon H2Origin hydrogen fuel cell hybrid delivery van has been unveiled in the UK. The H2Origin is a joint collaboration between Peugeot and Intelligent Energy, a British company that makes fuel cells.
So, that I don’t recreate the wheel here (or the fuel cell), I’ve already posted a more in-depth review of the Peugeot [...]
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The Advanced Vehicle Research Center (AVRC) out of Raleigh, North Carolina has teamed up with the North Carolina State University Solar Center to come up with a design and build plan for a portable hydrogen fueling station that is free for the public to use. The development of the hydrogen fueling station plans was funded [...]
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Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic trends, advisor to the European Union (EU) and author of the book “The Hydrogen Economy” has stated that a Third Industrial Revolution based upon hydrogen will create millions of jobs. According to Rifkin, the world is “approaching the sunset of the oil era” and in the next [...]
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Yesterday, Patrick K., an engineer, contacted me about the Smack’s Booster DIY (do-it-yourself) system that acts as a hydrogen generator for cars, trucks and motorcycles. This hydrogen boosting system helps increase gas mileage while reducing emissions by electrolyzing a small amount of water and injecting the hydrogen and oxygen into the vehicle’s intake.
Here’s how Patrick [...]
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It’s groovy, baby, as Austin Powers might say that a hydrogen fueling station is opening at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, which is currently the country’s only station. London had a temporary station that opened in 2005 by oil giant BP as part of the CUTE demonstration hydrogen bus program, but this [...]
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