Four or five times in the past, I’ve talked about ammonia cars. I’ve also talked about ammonia itself being a feasible chemical hydrogen carrier for future cars. The other day I stumbled across Professor Vito Agosta of Brooklyn’s Polytechnic University posting his thoughts in 2003 about the Ammonia Economy as a pathway to a hydrogen • Read More »
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Ammonia Cars a Step Closer Thanks to Hydrogen Engine Center
September 10, 2007 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Ammonia Cars a Step Closer Thanks to Hydrogen Engine Center | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.The past couple of months, I’ve talked about ammonia cars possibly being the automobiles of the future. Ohio State University is developing a system that reforms ammonia and extracts the hydrogen then runs this through a fuel cell. I’ve also talked about the Hydrogen Engine Center in Algona, Iowa that was developing an internal combustion • Read More »
Ammonia Pellets May Power Future Cars
August 22, 2007 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Ammonia Pellets May Power Future Cars | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Storage.Over the past couple of months, I’ve talked about how ammonia-fueled cars may be the hydrogen cars of the future. Ammonia is a hydrogen-rich chemical compound that when activated is able to release its hydrogen to a fuel cell to power a vehicle. Ammonia is now back in the news as a hydrogen-storage method that • Read More »
Ammonia Car Being Developed at Ohio University
July 16, 2007 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Ammonia Car Being Developed at Ohio University | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.Last week I had talked about ammonia cars being developed by several different manufacturers. The ammonia would be used either for reforming and running through fuel cells or used in internal combustion engines. Today, I would like to offer an update as researchers at Ohio University are also developing their own ammonia car as well. • Read More »
Ammonia Cars May Clean Up Highway Smog
July 9, 2007 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Ammonia Cars May Clean Up Highway Smog | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.When one thinks of ammonia, the first thing that comes to mind is the foul smell. But, ammonia is also used as a household cleaning product and automotive researchers are convinced that ammonia-powered cars will help clean the environment as zero or near zero emissions vehicles. Ammonia cars come in two varieties including those that • Read More »
Hydrogen, 2053 and all that
January 5, 2021 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Hydrogen, 2053 and all that | Filed in: History, Infrastructure, Myths.by guest blogger Stan Thompson If you’ve ever seen a slow-motion video of a dropped glass object shattering, then—the video reversed—reassembling to form the whole again, you have some notion of futurism. Futurists pay attention to the moving fragments all around us: which are biggest; how they are shaped and spinning; and the direction toward • 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 »
Can we just acknowledge the “hydrogen transition”?
December 1, 2019 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on Can we just acknowledge the “hydrogen transition”? | Filed in: Advocates, Fuel Cells, History, Hydrail, Hydrogen Economy, Infrastructure, Myths.by guest blogger, Stan Thompson Let’s limit the damage to hydrogen progress caused by “friendly fire.” Good reportage, scholarship and fair play do not require that every article point out that most hydrogen comes from extracted carbon. It’s true, it’s undeniable—but it’s totally irrelevant. The vast amounts of hydrogen produced from hydrocarbons to make petrochemicals, • Read More »
Natural Hydrogen (a New Source of Energy) Seeks Commercial Production & Investors
December 19, 2017 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Natural Hydrogen (a New Source of Energy) Seeks Commercial Production & Investors | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel.In 2009, geologists discovered a new, previously unknown natural phenomenon: some places on the Earth’s crust were seeping hydrogen gas. Hydrogen is odorless, invisible, tasteless, non-toxic, and, the most important, a very diffusive gas. This may explain why hydrogen in such places was not recognized earlier. This gas seeps out over very wide areas, • Read More »