At the Michelin Challenge Bibendum Paris 2006, Catherine Dunwoody gave an interview outlining how the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) was taking steps to help develop hydrogen cars and the hydrogen highway network in California. Dunwoody is the Executive Director of the CaFCP and was on hand to talk about the hydrogen cars including the • Read More »
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Hydrogen Airplanes Taking Flight into the Future
August 28, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Hydrogen Airplanes Taking Flight into the Future | Filed in: Hydrogen Aircraft, Hydrogen Vehicles.Boeing has just announced that it is developing a light aircraft powered by hydrogen fuel cells with hopes of making the greenest passenger airplane to fly to-date. Boeing is teaming up with Intelligent Energy, fuel cell maker and manufacturer of the ENV hydrogen motorcycle. In order to overcome the thrust needed for take-offs, the hydrogen • Read More »
Scotland Yard Chasing Criminals in Hydrogen Cars
August 25, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Scotland Yard Chasing Criminals in Hydrogen Cars | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.In just a few short years, Scotland Yard detectives will be chasing criminals around London by driving hydrogen cars with bullet-proof tanks. Scotland Yard authorities are taking four Honda FCX hydrogen cars modified for police work from a total order of 70 to be delivered to the Greater London Authority in 2010. The hydrogen cars • Read More »
Water Powered Cars – Hydrogen Fuel from Chemicals
August 24, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Water Powered Cars – Hydrogen Fuel from Chemicals | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.It’s good to see other bloggers such as Matt Andrews talking about the feasibility of water-powered cars. Like many ideas that start out as science fiction, some of these ideas actually become science. Not that there are currently any water-powered cars being demonstrated, but there is some research and development being conducted on such cars. • Read More »
Norway’s First HyNor Hydrogen Fueling Station Opens
August 23, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations, Hydrogen Highways.Today, Norway is opening up its first hydrogen fueling station in Stavanger during its Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) conference. The hydrogen fueling station is part of the HyNor Initiative, which is a hydrogen highway project similar to that in California. As part of the HyNor project, a hydrogen highway corridor will be built from Stavanger • Read More »
Jack Nicholson Drives Hydrogen Car
August 22, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Celebrities.Before Ed Begley, Jr., Tom Hanks and Peter Horton were promoting the wonders of the electric car, Jack Nicholson was driving a Chevrolet hydrogen car. Before Forrest Gump was knocking out delta docks with a shrimp boat, Jack was telling people that you can handle the truth and the truth is hydrogen is clean, green • Read More »
Formula Zero Go-Cart Racing Tests Hydrogen Interest
August 21, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Formula Zero Go-Cart Racing Tests Hydrogen Interest | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.Formula Zero intends to be a traveling circus on wheels when it hits the circuit not long from now. Formula Zero will be the first hydrogen fuel cell go-cart racing venue anywhere and will set up its portable racetracks outside of popular existing venues such as grand prix races, industrial fairs and political summits. Formula • Read More »
Hydrogenics Awarded Contract for 500 Hydrogen Fuel Cells
August 18, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Hydrogenics Awarded Contract for 500 Hydrogen Fuel Cells | Filed in: Fuel Cells.Hydrogenics Corporation has been awarded a contract by American Power Conversion to deliver 500 hydrogen fuel cell modules. The 500 HyPM XR 12 kW Fuel Cell Power Modules will be integrated with American Power’s InfraStruXure architecture for use in business data centers as a source of backup power in case of electricity failure. The fuel • Read More »
Scientists Look Deep Inside Hydrogen Fuel Cells
August 17, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Scientists Look Deep Inside Hydrogen Fuel Cells | Filed in: Fuel Cells.Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at Gaithersburg, Maryland are using a new neutron imaging station to look into hydrogen fuel cells at the microscopic level. Water management is critical for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells in extremely hot or cold climates and the new research station can help track • Read More »
Big Oil Could Be Hydrogen Car’s Best Friend or Worst Enemy
August 16, 2006 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Big Oil Could Be Hydrogen Car’s Best Friend or Worst Enemy | Filed in: Infrastructure.Big Oil could be the hydrogen car’s best friend or worst enemy. So far, it is both. Two of the companies that have invested the most money in hydrogen research and development for the transportation industry is Chevron and Shell Oil. Both Chevron and Shell Oil have partnered up with other companies to produce hydrogen • Read More »