Over the past year I’ve exchanged a few emails with Jonas Grooten of HyEngine Solutions. Instead of working on fuel cells, HyEngine converts vehicles with internal combustion engines to run on hydrogen. Here is what Jonas Grooten had to say in his last email: “My colleague, Olivier Vanhaelen, asked me to give you an update [...]
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The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) is running a promotion called “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator Challenge.” This is part of the Startup America initiative that makes it easier for small start-up companies to use technology developed by the DOE’s 17 national laboratories plus the Y-12 National Security Complex. On the front of the [...]
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One of the last times I had talked about Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) and their inventive professor Dr. Clifton Ricketts was in April 2007. At that time Dr. Ricketts was figuring out how to break his own land-speed record for hydrogen cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. This time, however, the goal [...]
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The last time I had talked about the Town of Hempstead (part of Long Island, NY) was back in February, 2009. At that point they were installing their first hydrogen fueling station and fueling up a GM Equinox Fuel Cell vehicle which was part of the automaker’s Project Driveway program. But, now the Town of [...]
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A UK firm called RE Hydrogen has invented a hydrogen compressor that is 30-percent the cost of others on the market. This means that not only can the compressors be smaller but the complimentary electrolyzers can be smaller and less costly as well. According to The Engineer, “Small-scale hydrogen production is a potential way to [...]
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In September 2008, I had first talked about South Africa trying to market platinum for fuel cells worldwide. You see, South Africa mines about 80-percent of the world’s supply of platinum and would like to continue selling this expensive metal long into the future. But, it hasn’t been until recently that South Africa has actually [...]
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I’ve talked many times over the past years about the German H2Mobility plan. Germany and the surrounding countries have been planning a European Union Hydrogen Highway system for the past decade. Part of this H2 highway system has included the United Kingdom. Well, now the UK has decided to get more focused on the 2015 [...]
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A group of Japanese students at Osaka Sangyo University took it upon themselves to build a hydrogen car and unveiled it in Tokyo last Friday. They didn’t have the usual support system in place in which to do this. According to the Mainichi Daily News, “This is the first successful fuel cell electric vehicle project [...]
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I’ve talked many times and in many of the past years how hydrogen fuel cells are lighting up Christmas around the world. Now, Santa is getting his own hydrogen fueling station and one that he’s willing to share with others. H2 Logic decided it would be logical to place a hydrogen fueling station in Finland [...]
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In my last post, I had talked about a fleet of 3-wheel hydrogen vehicles called HyAlfa being rolled out in India. These vehicles use converted internal combustion engines (ICE) for power. Today I want to talk about a different company in India Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., who has contracted Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. [...]
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