Posted on February 21st, 2012 by admin
While the U. S. remains largely on the sidelines, European nations continue to open hydrogen fueling stations. The WaterstofNet hydrogen fueling station officially has opened in Brussels, Belgium and Vattenfall has opened a hydrogen fueling station in Hamburg, Germany. The WaterstofNet H2 fueling station in Brussels offers the following: “This station features Hydrogenics’ fifth generation [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2012 by admin
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a technique to produce hydrogen from acidic water. What the researchers there have done is create a molecule that is structurally and chemically similar to the industrial catalyst molybdenite. The new molecule will replace platinum as the catalyst of choice for creating [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2012 by stanthom
by guest blogger Stan Thompson The 7th International Hydrail Conference (“7IHC”) will be held one week later than originally planned so that conferees at an important German rail conference can attend both events. During the 20th century, coal-fired steam locomotives gave way to diesel and external electric traction power. Now, in the 21st, diesel and [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2012 by admin
I’ve talked many times about ITM Power and their electrolysis based hydrogen fueling stations over the past several years. And over time there has been a certain frustration that ITM Power hasn’t moved more quickly to bring their products to market. Now, it looks like UK-based ITM Power has ratcheted up their efforts by launching [...]
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Posted on February 9th, 2012 by admin
If you’ve watched the movie “Who Killed the Electric Car?” released in 2006, you know that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) had a hand in General Motors and the other large automakers crushing their electric cars. In late January 2012, CARB decided to push another clean air mandate in California similar to the one [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2012 by admin
Air Products, a long time player, in creating hydrogen fueling stations for cars, trucks and other vehicles has now surpassed the fueling of over 1,000 fuel cell powered material handling units per day. These material handling units include fuel cell forklifts and palette trucks along with a couple of other types of vehicles one would [...]
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Posted on February 7th, 2012 by admin
Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corporation and the UK’s Intelligent Energy have been collaborating for years on building demonstration fuel cell vehicles. Two of the most successful of the partnership’s products have been in creating fuel cell motorcycles and scooters namely the Suzuki Crosscage motorcycle and Suzuki Burgman fuel cell scooter. In 2005, the Suzuki Ionis hydrogen [...]
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Posted on February 3rd, 2012 by admin
Several years ago I heard from Steve Williams with his proposal that the automotive parts and repair chain Pep Boys lead the charge in converting vehicles with internal combustion engines to run on hydrogen and providing H2 fueling stations at the stores themselves. This unique idea had piqued my interest and now I’ve heard from [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2012 by admin
One of the problems with rolling out hydrogen cars and a fueling infrastructure in the short term is coming up with cheap, lightweight and low pressure hydrogen fuel storage tanks. The hydrogen fuel tanks that are available now are either heavy and expensive such as metal hydride tanks or they are under high pressure from [...]
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