The 5th International Hydrail Conference that runs June 11 – 12, 2009 in Charlotte, North Carolina could spur as many as 200 new jobs in the high tech hydrogen industry. One of the goals of hydrail (hydrogen railway) is to build hydrolley (hydrogen trolley) streetcars to replace those powered by overhead electrical lines. Hydrolley is [...]
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In October 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger drove his hydrogen modified H2H Hummer to LAX airport to open California’s first public hydrogen fueling station. Since then the governor has developed and promoted California’s Hydrogen Highway system. Yesterday, at the Shell hydrogen fueling station in West Los Angeles Gov. Schwarzenegger spoke on behalf not only about the Hydrogen [...]
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As the Hydrogen Road Tour 2009 is busy on the West Coast proving H2 as a viable transportation fuel, the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is busy on the East Coast doing the same. While Governor Schwarzenegger is speaking in West Los Angeles today about the tour that runs from Chula Vista, California to Vancouver, [...]
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The Swiss have decided to go where no many has gone before and that is to test a municipal street sweeper using a hydrogen fuel cell. Cleaning up the air and the streets at the same time is the point of the Bucher CityCat H2 vehicle. Creating the CityCat H2 took a coordinated effort among [...]
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The Hydrogen Road Tour 2009 is coming a little early this year. Last year the Hydrogen Road Tour 2008 started on August 10. And, last year’s tour started in Portland, Maine and ended in Los Angeles after 13 days. This year, the Hydrogen Road Tour 2009 starts next Tuesday, May 26 and ends on June [...]
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As the Obama Administration is slashing the budget and zeroing out hydrogen car development, the European Union is upping the ante. Last week I talked about how President Obama and the DOE’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu chopped the hydrogen budget down 60-percent to $68.2 million and this money is for stationary fuel cell development and [...]
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P.E.I. in the North Cape region of Prince Edward Island has decided to try to go off-grid using wind to hydrogen technology. The wind to hydrogen village was first announced in 2005 to go off grid using wind to electrolyze water into hydrogen and oxygen and then run the hydrogen through a fuel cell to [...]
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Vision Industries CEO Martin Schuermann plans to commercialize the big rig Tyrano plug-in hybrid hydrogen fuel cell truck. The Tyrano is a class A heavy duty truck, with twice the torque of diesel truck. The Tyrano will be used to address emissions restrictions at both the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach, [...]
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The Chiron fuel cell concept is both a train and a big rig truck. And on of the kickers to this design concept is the fuel cell is powered by algae. Both big rig trucks and locomotives have trouble getting from point A to point B efficiently. Big rig diesel trucks get stuck in traffic [...]
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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena are using a desktop inkjet printer to help solve the problem of turning solar energy directly into hydrogen. The researchers are printing out hundreds of dots of dissimilar materials on glass in order to assess how these materials react to sunlight and produce energy. The scientists are [...]
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