Archives: Infrastructure

In the aftermath of the CARB (California Air Resources Board) cutbacks on the number of required hydrogen vehicles, GM is saying it wants to accelerate its fuel cell program but is frustrated by the lack of infrastructure support. At the National Hydrogen Association’s keynote address in Sacramento, California, GM’s Larry Burns, Vice President of Research • Read More »

Tomorrow’s hydrogen infrastructure will not be the same as today’s gasoline infrastructure. The naysayers of hydrogen technology point out how overwhelming it will be to set up a hydrogen infrastructure that models the current gasoline infrastructure and they may be right. Producing hydrogen gas in centralized facilities and then piping, trucking or sending it by • Read More »

With all the talk of California’s Hydrogen Highway system and fuel cell vehicle prototypes coming out of Detroit, Michigan one state that is often overlooked in hydrogen development has been South Carolina. But, South Carolina has been making a name for itself over the past 5 years when it comes to hydrogen and fuel cell • Read More »

New York City has developed a green map so that businesses and residents may work and live in a more environmentally conscious manner. There are many tips on the green map for saving energy such as using a bicycle more often or using compact fluorescent light bulbs at home and at work. Of particular note • Read More »

According to Philip King in The Australian, the big oil companies are the weakest link in the budding hydrogen transportation system. King quotes DaimlerChrysler vice-president Herbert Kohler as saying that the governments should require the oil companies to build the infrastructure to support hydrogen cars if they are also going to require automakers to build • Read More »

I’ve said it before that breakthroughs in solar photovoltaic (PV) technology may just be key to the developing of a hydrogen infrastructure and economy. If solar panels can be produced cheaply enough to compete with energy supplied by fossil fuels, then the Solar Revolution may just spark a Hydrogen Revolution on its heels. One company • Read More »

There was a blog posting at Drudge.com that started off innocent enough talking about the new Honda FCX that was just demoed this week in Northern California to the public. From this posting the conversation quickly turned to windmills for generating renewable hydrogen to power the vehicles. The usual topics were covers such as the • Read More »

An article in EurActiv.com called, “Hydrogen and fuel cells: fake promises?” talks about all of the problems associated with moving to a hydrogen economy and hydrogen infrastructure within the transportation industry. Granted, there are many problems that need to be fixed in order for a smooth transition to hydrogen to occur. But, like so many • Read More »

If the hydrogen economy is going to take off and hydrogen cars are to become a reality with the ability to travel cross country and gas up at hydrogen fueling stations along the way, how will this infrastructure be built? An article in Scientific American named “A Power Grid for the Hydrogen Economy” lays out • Read More »

With the recent announcements by both BMW and General Motors that they will be rolling out hydrogen vehicles to the marketplace in 2007, this puts pressure on the government and industry to develop a hydrogen infrastructure to support such vehicles. The state governments of California, Florida, New York, Michigan, Arizona and Washington DC, to name • Read More »