Category: Hydrogen Fuel Production

In the global race to decarbonize transportation, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCEVs) represent a powerful, zero-emission solution. They offer the quick refueling and long range of their gasoline counterparts, emitting nothing but pure water vapor. Yet, for years, a persistent question has shadowed their promise: Where will the hydrogen actually come from? The most common method […]

In a groundbreaking discovery, Mantle8, a leading energy exploration company, has confirmed the presence of record-breaking natural hydrogen concentrations in the Pyrenees region straddling the border between France and Spain. This finding has significant implications for the future of clean energy, as natural hydrogen—also known as “white hydrogen” or “gold hydrogen”—could emerge as a game-changing resource in the global transition away from fossil […]

Recently, experts are thinking that by 2030 we could be looking at hydrogen being as cheap as $1 per kilogram. That is the suggestion being made by some, including experts at Wood Mackenzie. This would be an incredible turn of events, delivering a more affordable access level for those looking to switch to hydrogen. It […]

The COVID-19 lockdown offers plenty of chances for us to think about ways to advance the use of green hydrogen in the marketplace. One such solution comes from Nel Hydrogen and PNNL. The teams at Nel Hydrogen and also experts led by Wei Wang, the chief scientist for energy storage research at the Pacific Northwest […]

As fuel cell vehicles rollout in California, Germany, Japan, the UK and elsewhere, creating an abundance of hydrogen is key to the success of the adoption of the vehicles. As fuel cell vehicles are considered to be disruptive technology so are the means of making hydrogen gas. One of the new ways of doing so […]

There are two big stories this week in regard to new and promising research into cheap hydrogen production and I want to talk about both of them. In Israel, a startup company called H2Energy Now has developed a method using radio waves to zap water and extract the hydrogen gas. According to the Times of […]

Spanish researchers who are part of the Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices Group are using high tech plastics plus sunlight to produce hydrogen from water. These plastics are organic in nature and could lead to cheap and abundant hydrogen production. According to Cordis, “One of the main challenges of the project, which will finish in November, […]

Dr. Melanie Mormile, a researchers at Missouri S&T, has discovered that the extreme bacterium halanaerobium hydrogeninformans can produce large amounts of hydrogen under the right conditions. According to Missouri S&T, “Mormile, an expert in the microbial ecology of extreme environments, wasn’t searching for a bacterium that could produce hydrogen. Instead, she first became interested in […]