Archives: Hydrogen Education

Bullet Points for Hydrogen’s Synthesis Epoch

September 6, 2020 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Bullet Points for Hydrogen’s Synthesis Epoch | Filed in: Green Hydrogen, History, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Education.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson In case you came in late, the synthesis epoch is when we started making stuff like fertilizer from renewable energy which, in the previous extraction epoch, we sourced by digging or pumping matter out of the ground. • Natural gas hydrogen is to electrolyzed H2 as jumper cables are to • Read More »

“Why Nations Fail” — A great read with an H2 epilog

July 16, 2020 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on “Why Nations Fail” — A great read with an H2 epilog | Filed in: Advocates, Green Hydrogen, History, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Education, Hydrogen Fuel Production, Infrastructure, News, Political Issues.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson Davidson College is near our NC home and its proximity offers neighbors access to an astonishing parade of great minds. In 1962 I met cosmologist George Gamow there and got to ask him a few questions. Albert Einstein had died only seven years earlier; some would say Gamow was his • Read More »

The Hydrogen Transition: Kubrick’s “2001” monolith

June 20, 2020 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on The Hydrogen Transition: Kubrick’s “2001” monolith | Filed in: History, Hydrail, Hydrogen Aircraft, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Education, Hydrogen Organizations, Infrastructure, Myths, News, Political Issues.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson The world may little note nor long remember the routine June 8, 2020, press release by Germany’s venerable Thyssenkrupp industrial giant. But to me it is a transition marker that’s profound in the same way that the tiny band of iridium and ash around the world marks the cretaceous-tertiary boundary • Read More »

High Speed Rail Celebration at Hydrail’s Second Home

October 3, 2014 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on High Speed Rail Celebration at Hydrail’s Second Home | Filed in: Conferences, Hydrail, Hydrogen Education.

by Guest Blogger Stan Thompson For three days this December, the 8th, 9th and 10th, the University of Birmingham UK will host the 50th anniversary celebration of the birth of High Speed Rail. The blessed event occurred in Japan in 1964 with the opening of Tokyo’s Shinkansen line. Many of the top experts in this most fascinating (and literally “dashing”) element of • Read More »

United Hydrail Nations

September 17, 2014 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on United Hydrail Nations | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Education, Hydrogen Organizations, Hydrogen Vehicles, Hyrail, Infrastructure.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson This update follows much farther behind the wonderfully successful 9th International Hydrail Conference in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (June 2014) than I had intended.  The reason is one I can’t regret: the cast of international players on the hydrail stage has grown so large, and there are so many  intertwining plots, that I can hardly keep up • Read More »

Hydrogen Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

September 21, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Hydrogen Jobs, Jobs, Jobs | Filed in: Hydrogen Education.

The mantra now days with such high unemployment at least from the politicians that run the country is jobs, jobs, jobs. And, there is truth to this mantra since the middle class is suffering and election time is slightly over a year away. So, this got me to thinking how converting to a hydrogen-based transportation • Read More »

NPR’s Ira Flatow Helped Hydrail Too

February 11, 2011 | By Stan Thompson | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrail, Hydrogen Education.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson In my February 10, 2011, commendation of public broadcasting for its help in raising hydrail awareness, I failed to credit Ira Flatow’s excellent program, Talk of the Nation – Science Friday. On September 4, 2009, Ira ran a great segment on hydrail but never mentioned the technology by name. Web • 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 »

Eco Trek Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-Cell Team Up for Green Tour

January 10, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 3 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Education.

Here’s an interesting little tidbit being announced today, “CCM News has developed one of the first ever, syndicated video news magazines Eco Trek dedicated to exposing the coolest, sustainable energy stories from around the world. Empowered by Mercedes-Benz, Eco Trek producers will circle the globe in 125 days in three of Mercedes-Benz’s emission free B • Read More »