Once again President Obama is proposing to cut the hydrogen budget from the DOE (Department of Energy). Apparently our President does think hydrogen has anything to do with clean energy since he is also proposing increasing spending on clean energy programs to $8 billion. The hydrogen funding cuts that Obama is proposing will amount to [...]
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Since this is celebrated as Martin Luther King Day across the U. S. I thought I would put my own hydrogen car spin on this special day. It starts out with Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. And my apologies upfront to the late Dr. King, his family and the American people for [...]
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The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced their 105-page draft version of the “Department of Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Plan.” According to the DOE, “The U. S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s or the Department’s) hydrogen and fuel cell efforts are part of a broad portfolio of activities to build a competitive [...]
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As the U. S. has faltered in auto sales across the board recently, China still continues in strong production and sales. In fact, China is so strong that some are wondering if there is a bubble looming for this country of 1.3 billion people. But, what has been under-reported by the mainstream media is that [...]
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The Hydrogen.gov website is now up and running. This is good for not only private sector advocates for hydrogen, but it shows that the public sector is getting serious about hydrogen as well. For years, hydrogen advocates like myself have complained that the will of our government seems weak when in comes to developing H2 [...]
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Yesterday, President Obama signed into law the Manufacturing Enhancement Act of 2010. He says he wants to spur the growth of manufacturing jobs inside the U. S. and in particular clean energy jobs. According to President Obama’s speech before signing, “The extraordinary growth we’ve seen in the clean energy sector is due first and foremost [...]
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The U. S. Congress once again wants to give U. S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu millions of dollars for hydrogen car research and development and the former Nobel Prize winner doesn’t want any of it. Energy Secretary Chu calls hydrogen fuel cell cars impractical. I had talked about a similar debate between the U. S. [...]
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On June 28, 2010 I had talked about how New York U. S. Senator Charles E. Schumer was fighting President Obama’s proposed $37 million cut from the DOE’s hydrogen research budget. This comes a little more than a year after President Obama proposed cutting $100 million from the hydrogen research budget including zeroing out the [...]
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United States’ Independence Day will be celebrated this coming Sunday, July 4, 2010. Two days ahead of schedule, the CEO of Cypress Semiconductor will make a “Declaration of Energy Independence” from the public utility grid using fuel cell technology. The Cypress campus headquarters in San Jose, California is turning to Bloom Energy fuel cells along [...]
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In May 2009, the Obama administration ordered the Department of Energy to slash the hydrogen car research budget by 60-percent. Cooler heads in Congress prevailed and were able to restore much of the budget. A lot of the credit at that time went to U. S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) who oversees the Senate Energy [...]
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