Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
In December 2009, I had talked about research on using graphite and graphene by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Princeton University as potential ways to store hydrogen fuel. Now, government and academia have teamed up again as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Pennsylvania are developing another […]
Continue ReadingResearchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that energy waste in the form of small vibrations or noises can be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. This recapture of energy would create hydrogen fuel renewably and sustainably. With the aid of ultrasonic vibrations, and a phenomenon called the piezoelectric effect, fibers at […]
Continue ReadingRecently, I had the pleasure of communicating with Todd Norman, author of Ideas to Save the Planet. I put a few questions to him about the role of hydrogen. Here is the question and answer session: HydroKevin (HK): What is your vision of a global conversion to a hydrogen economy especially concerning the building of […]
Continue ReadingI get tired of the Chicken Little’s of the world or the advocates of other alternative fuel vehicles comparing hydrogen cars to the Hindenburg. The Hindenburg fallacy I’ve addressed on the website, blog and in numerous emails ad nauseam. Numerous manufacturers including GM and Honda have put their cars through extensive crash tests to make […]
Continue ReadingNormally, I would talk about these two subjects in different blog posts. But, I wanted to show first how much time, energy and money is being spent on coming up with cost effective hydrogen production solutions and second the variety of methods companies are using in aggressively pursuing the hydrogen production issue. First, I would […]
Continue ReadingEven through bankruptcy proceedings, General Motors did not abandon its fuel cell vehicle (FCV) program. And now that the overall company is back on track, more progress is being announced inside of Project Driveway. There was a hint of this as last week I received an email saying there would be a big Project Driveway […]
Continue ReadingAccording to CEO Ronny Bar-Gadda of Genesys LLC there is a new technology that he’s invented called RET (radiant energy transfer) that is a breakthrough in producing hydrogen from water. According to Mr. Bar-Gadda, this may just be the disruptive technology the H2 community has been waiting for in regard to producing cost effective hydrogen […]
Continue ReadingSometimes I like to tool around the Internet looking for hydrogen resources that may have flown under the radar of the mainstream media. In the U. S. there are many programs that are being developed simultaneously, especially different kinds of hydrogen roadmaps and state’s initiatives. So, I thought I would outline a few of the […]
Continue ReadingNow this may sound like something dreamed up in a mad scientist’s laboratory, but a few wacky researchers at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute have come up with an idea of using a giant kite pulling a ship at sea to create hydrogen. How this is proposed to work is that a 6 1/2 million […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a blast from the past. I want to take you back to 1999 when the Gillette Mach 3 Challenger motorcycle broke the land speed record running on hydrogen peroxide and aluminum and hit the record mark of 365 miles per hour at the Bonneville Salt Flats. In the past, I’ve talked many times about […]
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