Archives: Hydrogen Economy

Peak oil is looming and peaking at us from around the corner. This is according to the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre in London. The scientists there have stated that cheap crude oil actually peaked in 2005 and when one considers heavy crude oil in hard to get to placed like deep sea bottoms, then the • Read More »

Last week I had talked about three friends who had built a solar-hydrogen home in Washington State. I emailed one of the friends, Jason Lerner, to ask him how the project is moving along. Here is his reply: Jason Lerner: Yes, our project is going well. We are just installing the newest fuel cell from • Read More »

Yesterday I blogged about the solar-hydrogen home being built on an island in the Caribbean. On previous occasions, I’ve talked about other hydrogen homes that have already been built and are functioning in New Jersey, New York, Arizona and New Mexico. Now, I would like to give a little attention to the solar-hydrogen home that • Read More »

Ya, mon! Solar and hydrogen power are coming to the Cayman Islands. Just 500 miles from Miami, the first solar-hydrogen home in the Caribbean is being built that will be carbon neutral and self-sustaining. Renewable Energy International (REI) along with Mike Strizki who built the first solar-hydrogen home in New Jersey, will be undertaking this • Read More »

The Hilton Hotel in New York City has installed a UTC Power PureCell Model 200 fuel cell system to power the powerful powerhouse of a 1,980-room property. The Hilton Hotel is using the fuel cell as part of its combined heat and power (CHP) program, which is three times more efficient that using electricity from • Read More »

There have been a flurry of cities, public and private businesses and even individuals recently proclaiming that they are becoming carbon neutral to fight global warming and climate change. Major search engines Yahoo and Google have both made this announcement for their own facilities. And in fact, the Yahoo Green campaign will award the greenest • Read More »

Hydrogen cars and the whole hydrogen economy will take off by using less hydrogen. This statement may sound like an internal contradiction, so let me explain. In the U. S., we don’t like to conserve energy, but we do like to have technology conserve energy for us. Compact fluorescent light bulbs are a prime example • Read More »

Australian beer maker Fosters has announced that it has teamed up with researchers at the University of Queensland to rollout a fuel cell powered by beer. The microbial fuel cell will convert beer waste into clean water and electricity generating 2 kw of power or enough energy to light up one household. The 660-gallon fuel • Read More »

In car and bike racing terms, one may say that hydrogen is drafting solar energy. I’ve blogged before that a revolution in solar energy will most likely lead to a revolution in hydrogen power as well. So, following in this train of thought, its time to do another checkup of the latest news in solar. • Read More »

That’s right, the major search engines, Yahoo and Google have decided to lower the emissions on their search vehicles. In a plan to fight global warming, Yahoo has announced its aggressive plan to go carbon neutral starting in the later part of 2007. The search giant’s desire to make a smaller environmental footprint started in • Read More »