Archives: Hydrogen Economy

I’ve talked several times before about the Hydrogen Engine Center in Algona, Iowa. For a couple of years now, this company has been building new internal combustion engines or reconditioning and retrofitting older engines to run on hydrogen and other alternative energy fuels. The Hydrogen Engine Center (HEC) has just received an order for a • Read More »

The California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP), a leading consortium joining fuel cell makers, car companies, energy companies and government, has rolled out their vision plan for the growth of fuel cell vehicles (FCV) and refueling stations in the state. The plan titled, “Vision for Rollout of Fuel Cell Vehicles and Hydrogen Fuel Stations” is a • Read More »

Kern County, California, a place the size of Connecticut just north of Los Angeles and home to Bakersfield will be the site of the nation’s first hydrogen production and carbon capture facility. In the past, I’ve talked about the U. S. government’s FutureGen program using fossil fuels to create hydrogen and electricity at power plants • Read More »

Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp has taken his movie career a bit too seriously. In 2005, after making the popular Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl he purchased a 35-acre Caribbean Island for $3 million. But, what’s your own private island without a little treasure on it? That’s what • Read More »

T. Boone Pickens is an oilman, a gas man and a wind man. After 60 years as an oil tycoon with a net worth estimated at $3 billion, T. Boone Pickens no longer wants to be an oilman, but one who is powered by gas and wind (insert your own joke here). According to the • Read More »

The HydroGen Corporation has announced that they have started up a 400 kw hydrogen-powered phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC) at ASHTA Chemicals in Ashtabula, Ohio. This full-scale commercial demonstration project uses “by-product hydrogen” from the ASHTA plant that is created in the production of chlor-alkali. The electricity created by the HydroGen PAFC is used to • Read More »

Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic trends, advisor to the European Union (EU) and author of the book “The Hydrogen Economy” has stated that a Third Industrial Revolution based upon hydrogen will create millions of jobs. According to Rifkin, the world is “approaching the sunset of the oil era” and in the next • Read More »

A couple of British manufacturers are developing CHP (combined heat and power) fuel cell boilers which one day will provide power to homes in the United Kingdom. British Gas and Ceres Power have teamed up to create their own CHP fuel cell boiler that will be competing with the Baxi Ecogen mini-CHP unit. Since 2005, • Read More »

The people who are currently driving around their zero emissions, hydrogen cars need to find an equally environmentally conscious grocery store in which to shop for fruit, vegetables and other necessities. Well, now the Whole Foods Market in Glastonbury, Connecticut has decided to install a hydrogen-powered fuel cell to supply ½ of their electricity and • Read More »

Now, you can get anything you want at the hydrogen restaurant, excepting Alice, or so the Arlo Guthrie song goes. But, what is true is that a large oil company Xynergy Corporation has announced that they will be building eateries all over Nevada powered by hydrogen. The hydrogen restaurants will be either partially-owned or wholly-owned • Read More »