Archives: Hydrogen Economy

Turkey Builds EkoKaravan and Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure

July 6, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Turkey Builds EkoKaravan and Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure | Filed in: Hydrogen Economy.

In July 2009 I had talked about how Turkish students had developed the SAHIMO hydrogen car that gets around 340 mpge. Last year the International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies (ICHET) based in Istanbul decided to build the EkoKaravan recreational vehicle (pictured above) that runs off a combination of solar, wind, batteries and hydrogen fuel • Read More »

State of the States Fuel Cells in America 2011 Report Unveiled

June 28, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on State of the States Fuel Cells in America 2011 Report Unveiled | Filed in: Hydrogen Economy.

In April 2010 Fuel Cells 2000 distributed their State of the State: Fuel Cells in America 2010 report. Now, slightly over a year later Fuel Cells 2000 has put out their State of the State: Fuel Cells in America 2011 report, updating the previous report. The State of the States report is an overview of • Read More »

Hydrail: Putting the Car Before the (Iron) Horse

June 24, 2011 | By Stan Thompson | 2 Comments | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Cars, Hydrogen Economy.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson Perhaps the single greatest impediment to the advent of the hydrogen economy has been the media-led insistence that hydrogen fuel cell technology is an automotive design experiment that has not yet been made to work. The ubiquity issue—the controlling obstacle unique to the car application—is never examined. Mention hydrogen and • Read More »

More Hydrogen Technology Coming to the Hood

March 2, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Economy.

I wrote a blog post about a week ago called Hydrogen Power Sneaking Up on the Public where I had talked about the H2 technology that was either in my geographic location or coming here soon. So then Stan Thompson (see his guest posts on Hydrail) suggested that I ask people where they lived and • Read More »

Hydrail: A Tale of Two Metals

February 24, 2011 | By Stan Thompson | 3 Comments | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson When the history of railway evolution in the first half of the twenty-first century is written, it may largely be a tale of two metals and their respective economics. Copper and hydrogen are both essential to the long-term economical delivery of electric power: copper to stationary applications and hydrogen to • Read More »

Hydrogen Power Sneaking Up on the Public

February 24, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 11 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Economy.

Sometimes when I read the news, I get a “not in my neighborhood” feeling when it comes to hydrogen development. I’m chomping at the bit for hydrogen technology to become normalized to the point where I can have casual discussions about it with my neighbors as I would any other topic such as the price • Read More »

Hydrail: Powered by Public Broadcasting

February 10, 2011 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Hydrail: Powered by Public Broadcasting | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Education.

by guest blogger, Stan Thompson There is a natural affinity between the emergence of hydrogen fuel cell railway technology (hydrail) and public broadcasting—though I’ve only just noticed it. Both worlds fall within the province of early adopters and other folks driven to scratch below the surface to see how things work and how they come • Read More »

Disordered Titanium and Buckypaper Could Be Hydrogen Technology Breakthroughs

February 2, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Economy.

Two new discoveries could be breakthroughs that make hydrogen fuel cheaper and H2 fuel cells cheaper as well. Scientists as the U. S. DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have discovered that disordered titanium at a nano-scale can be used as a robust photocatalyst for creating hydrogen from water using sunlight. According to LBNL, the • Read More »

Hydrogen Town and Hydrogen Office Projects Launch

January 25, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Hydrogen Town and Hydrogen Office Projects Launch | Filed in: Hydrogen Economy.

While the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt and other BEVs and PHEVs are grabbing all the headlines and getting all the glory hydrogen is quietly making headway around the globe. For instance, in Japan, a country that already has a hydrogen highway program already in place and is expanding this rapidly they have just launched • Read More »

Apple vs PC and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Electronics

January 6, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Economy.

This blog post has nothing to do with hydrogen cars so if this is all you’re interested in then please stop reading. This blog post is about the growing hydrogen economy, however, and how both Microsoft PCs and Apple Computers are now connected to this emerging technology for powering laptops and cell phones. According to • Read More »