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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There’s been a lot of research in materials sciences in finding cheaper alternatives in which to store hydrogen or use as catalysts for hydrogen reactions. Most of this breakthrough technology perpetually seems to be 10 to 20 years away before commercialization. This is why when I heard about what the researchers at the University of [...]
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Today, a Proton OnSite FuelGen C30 proton exchange membrane electrolyzer will arrive at the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) facility outside of Honolulu, Hawaii. The PEM electrolyzer will use the same platform as the SunHydro fueling station at the Wallingford, Connecticut office. According to Proton OnSite, “The electrolyzer at JBPHH will support the tri-service Hawaii [...]
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Yesterday I had talked about the further commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell forklifts. Today I would like to talk about this again with a different slant on the story. Pike Research has come out with a study predicting that there will be 5,200 hydrogen fueling stations operational by the year 2020. What is interesting to [...]
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As silly as this first may seem, let’s not throw any alternative off the table just yet when it comes to future fuel sources for hydrogen cars. A team of researchers at Leibnitz Institute for Catalysis (Rostock, Germany) believe that common baking soda holds the key for chemical hydrogen storage that is recyclable. According to [...]
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Today the UConn Huskies are getting all the Hoopla for winning the NCAA Basketball Championship beating the Butler Bulldogs quite handily. But, just down the road a spell is something more important, flying under the radar, affecting our energy future. Scientists at Yale have discovered how to make fuel cells more efficient using Bulk Metallic [...]
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Nanocrystals of Titanium Dioxide (TIO2) plus a solid acid CsHSO4 may one day replace platinum in fuel cells bringing down costs considerably. Now, I’ve talked about platinum in fuel cells many times in the past as one of the contributing factors to driving up costs and stalling the rollout of hydrogen vehicles. Researchers at TU [...]
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