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Volkswagen-Audi Cooperation with China benefits Hydrogen Economy & Fuel Cell Future

June 10, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Volkswagen-Audi Cooperation with China benefits Hydrogen Economy & Fuel Cell Future | Filed in: History.

“We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.”       Ban Ki-moon, former United Nations Secretary General Free energy from sun and wind was the topic of two previous articles, a minor detour from the actual theme. Nevertheless, sustainable energy is • Read More »

Free Wind Energy Aids Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History, Boosts Future

June 3, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Free Wind Energy Aids Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History, Boosts Future | Filed in: History.

“Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.”             Bjork, Reykjavík, Iceland Wind power is universal. Countless mills in the Netherlands and elsewhere have done work before steam engines out-paced them. Wind propelled • Read More »

Free Solar Energy Benefits Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History, Boosts Future

May 27, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Free Solar Energy Benefits Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History, Boosts Future | Filed in: Green Hydrogen, History.

“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”        Ralph Nader Wikipedia wisdom states, “No single energy storage method boasts the best in specific power, specific energy, and energy density.” As you know, everything in engineering is a compromise. No energy source is perfectly suitable • Read More »

Mazda Conducts Serious R&D During Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History

May 20, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Mazda Conducts Serious R&D During Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History | Filed in: History.

“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” Wernher von Braun The NASA space program initiated the commercial use of hydrogen in fuel cells to generate electricity. Different applications require various types of fuel cells; Alkaline FCs, Molten Carbonate, Phosphoric Acid, Solid Oxide, Direct Alcohol, Electrolyte Fuel Cells and other, similar • Read More »

Mercedes Research Vehicles Advance Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History

May 13, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Mercedes Research Vehicles Advance Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History | Filed in: History.

“That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced.”                                                                                                                                        Scientific American, June 2, 1909. The only constant is change, an old proverb affirms. More than a century after the automobile • Read More »

Do Hybrids advance Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History?

May 6, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Do Hybrids advance Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History? | Filed in: History.

  “I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.”             William Clay Ford, Jr.   Henry Ford’s father William came to Canada from Ireland, before settling ‘on the other side’ — years before Henry started to change the world. BTW, Cadillac also came to Canada before settling ‘on the • Read More »

Rockets propel Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History

April 29, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Rockets propel Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History | Filed in: History.

  “A rocket will never leave the Earth’s atmosphere.”         New York Times, 1936 “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”  – Dwight D. Eisenhower Elon Musk said, • Read More »

BMW using Hydrogen Fuel during Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History

April 22, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on BMW using Hydrogen Fuel during Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History | Filed in: History.

  “When I hear people blaming the automobile for global warming, I have to chuckle. It’s not the car. It’s the fuel.”                        Jay Leno in this article Hollywood stars drive hydrogen-fueled cars: actors Edward Norton and Cameron Diaz, Placido Domingo and Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Joely Fisher, and many others, as they wait patiently for FCEVs. In the United • Read More »

Toyota believes in Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History – AND Future

April 15, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Toyota believes in Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History – AND Future | Filed in: History.

  “We would like to be still selling cars when there’s no more gasoline. And no one is coming to our door asking us to build a new electric car.”— Craig Scott, Toyota’s national manager of advanced technologies NASA declared hydrogen a safe fuel long ago. In a previous article, I showed a pamphlet, indicating • Read More »

Ammonia believed to benefit Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History

April 8, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Ammonia believed to benefit Hydrogen & Fuel Cell History | Filed in: History.

“A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds.” – Mark Twain Can science find a detour to the Hydrogen Economy? Serious scientists believe that, before an infrastructure can support a fuel cell based transportation industry, the present system could easily adopt to ammonia, if only temporary. Kevin Kantola already wrote about • Read More »