The National Hydrogen Association (NHA) Conference and Hydrogen Expo gets in full swing today in Columbia, South Carolina. The NHA Conference started March 30 and runs through April 3, 2009 so there is still time to attend or see the main events online. Some of the highlights of the NHA Conference and Hydrogen Expo starting [...]
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Mercedes-Benz decided to let company trainees do a mashup of what would happen if you combine a futuristic hydrogen car with an old school automobile. The result is the F-Cell Hybrid Roadster. Over 150 Daimler AG trainees in Sindelfingen, Germany took turns for about a year in creating this 1.2 kw hydrogen fuel cell vehicle [...]
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The California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) in Sacramento plans to have 46 retail hydrogen fueling stations in place in six communities by 2014. The H2 fueling stations will be enough to accommodate 4,300 passenger vehicles and 20 fuel cell buses. Right now in California there are 26 hydrogen fueling stations throughout the state, but only [...]
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One of the largest hydrogen gas suppliers in the world, the Linde Group has come up with new hydrogen compression technology that it will be introducing at the National Hydrogen Association 20th Annual Conference in Columbia, SC on March 30 to April 3, 2009. I’ve talked about the Linde Group before as the first company [...]
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Legendary singer and musician Neil Young will be driving a modified 1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV called the Linc Volt into the Automotive X-Prize competition. The original 1959 Lincoln Continental is 19.5 feet from bumper to bumper (the longest car of its time), weighs about 2 ½ tons and gets around 10 mpg. The modified [...]
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In case you missed it, President Obama was in Southern California yesterday, first at the Southern California Edison Electric Vehicle Technical Center in Pomona and then on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in Burbank. While at the electric car center in Pomona, President Obama said it was good to get out of Washington to [...]
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Desalination plants everywhere could be producing hydrogen gas from seawater if the right device were to be installed. This is the word from physicist Roberto De Luca from Italy’s University of Salerno. De Luca has run laboratory tests where he has forced salt water (containing sodium and chlorine ions) through a thin rectangular pipe that [...]
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I’ve talked about ExxonMobile and Shell Oil before in regard to creating alternatives to oil that will green the environment. At this time it was hard to tell whether their interests were legitimate or just another public relations greenwashing ploy from yet another set of major corporations. Well, now both Big Oil companies have decided to [...]
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So, just how does one save Detroit when the Big 3 Automakers are tanking further into insolvency? One answer, in addition to building new cars, is to put the autoworkers to task building a solar and hydrogen powered light railway MagLev system from Detroit to Lansing, Michigan. The Interstate Traveler Company LLC, would be putting [...]
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In Japan, Tokyo Gas and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. are developing highly efficient hydrogen production units for cars and homes. The steam methane reforming units will include carbon dioxide capture features and will form a local hydrogen network. Hydrogen will be supplied to fuel cell vehicles, homes and offices through a network of pipelines. Hydrogen [...]
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