Washington State University (WSU) students recently won a hydrogen fueling station design contest. The challenge was to create an H2 fueling station that was low cost to build and maintain, portable and could be used in real world conditions right now. According to WSU News, “The competition called for students to create a fueling station • Read More »
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Union County NJ Student Model Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Contest
January 4, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Union County NJ Student Model Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Contest | Filed in: Competition.In the past, I’ve talked about various student contests involving designing model hydrogen fuel cell cars. Since I believe that the students of today will be making the hydrogen car breakthroughs of tomorrow, I enjoy covering such subjects. The fourth annual Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car Challenge was held in Union County, New Jersey in • Read More »
2010 Hydrogen Student Design Contest for Building an H2 Community
December 17, 2009 | By | Comments Off on 2010 Hydrogen Student Design Contest for Building an H2 Community | Filed in: Conferences.The 5th annual Hydrogen Student Design Contest has just been announced by the Hydrogen Education Foundation, which is the charitable arm of the National Hydrogen Association. The theme of the contest is Designing a Hydrogen Community and this year’s graduate and undergraduate students will be challenged with the task of planning and designing the basic • Read More »
Hydrogen Student Design Contest 2 Results
April 21, 2009 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Hydrogen Student Design Contest 2 Results | Filed in: Hydrogen Economy.The results are in and the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada (pictured) won the Hydrogen Student Design Contest 2 this year. The contest was sponsored by the Hydrogen Education Foundation. Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan had two different teams in the competition that won honorable mention. The theoretical budget for the hydrogen homes • Read More »
Drop-in Hydrogen Fueling Stations Designed by Students
December 18, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.Yesterday, I talked about the need in Whistler, B. C., Canada for better hydrogen refueling infrastructure in order to save their fuel cell bus program. Today, I would like to talk about a student contest for building drop-in hydrogen fueling stations that could be a solution for Whistler. The aim of the 2014 Hydrogen Student • Read More »
UC Riverside Students Develop Solar Hydrogen System
February 21, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 4 Comments | Filed in: Home Hydrogen Fueling.Altruism isn’t dead and it may even lead to revolutionary and profitable products. This is what the University of California, Riverside engineering team is finding out as they were developing a way to help third world countries. The idea was to develop a device to harness energy from the sun, electrolyze water and capture hydrogen • Read More »
Hydrogen Cars for Sale
August 7, 2015 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | No Comments | Filed in: .Hydrogen Cars for Sale It’s not often you hear the phrases “Hydrogen Cars for Sale” or “Hydrogen Trucks for Sale.” This is because there are no commercial production hydrogen cars for sale or hydrogen trucks for sale at the moment and it may be up to several years until there are. There are a few • Read More »
SAE International World in Motion Fuel Cell Olympics Held This Week
April 11, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Conferences.This coming Thursday, April 14, 2011, SAE International will hold its first ever “World in Motion Fuel Cell Olympics” in Detroit. The event is being sponsored by GM. Last week I had talked about Michigan getting its first public hydrogen fueling station. So, it looks like the Great Lakes State (or the Wolverine State depending • Read More »
Hydrogen Education Excites Future Engineers
November 8, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 6 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Education.One of the top ways to usher in a hydrogen-based future is to excite the students and young people of today who will be working in the hydrogen industry tomorrow. Just by being exposed to information about hydrogen energy, students will rethink their educational options in high school and college. This is happening on two • Read More »
11,516 MPG Hydrogen Car Takes Winners Circle
May 11, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 4 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.A team of university students from Polyjule of Polytech Nantes in France won the Shell Eco-Marathon hosted in Lausitz, Germany. The winning hydrogen fuel cell car achieved an incredible 11,516 mpge (miles per gallon equivalent). And while these numbers do seem incredible the 2005 Swiss ETH Zurich PAC-Car II still holds the record of 15,212 • Read More »