Archives: Hydrogen Fuel Production

On December 15, 2010 I had talked about hydrogen degassing in Russia and the Ukraine as being a possible fuel source. The theory is that it is possible to drill for hydrogen streams approximately 1/2 miles under the Earth’s surface to tap into these streams. Now there is new information in this arena that this • Read More »

I find the following information rather mind-boggling since it defies conventional wisdom. The first of which is that hydrogen doesn’t occur naturally on this planet, that it is bonded with other atoms and it has to be brutally ripped from those atoms in order to create pure H2. The second bit of conventional wisdom which • Read More »

In addition to grain silos on a farm, passersby may soon find H2Silos as well. The design concept basically uses a silo design with a solar panel on top that splits water in the center to create hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen can be used to refuel hydrogen powered tractors and other farm (and home) • Read More »

Russian researchers have found that the Rhodobacter sphaeroides bacteria produce hydrogen and the rate at which H2 is produced depends upon the pigmentation of the cells. According to Russia IC, “There are some techniques, which allow hydrogen production without harming our environment – using various bacteria for this purpose is one of such techniques. Purple • Read More »

OriginOil has made a breakthrough scaled down system that uses algae to create hydrogen with similar efficiencies to using solar energy. The efficiency of using OriginOil’s Hydrogen Harvester is around 12-percent and solar energy hydrogen systems by comparison offer a wide range of efficiencies between 6 and 20-percent. One of the disadvantages of solar is • Read More »

RE Hydrogen Ltd of Great Britain has received an award of $39,000 USD from the Technology Strategy Board, UK to scale up their electrolyzer into a commercial unit that can supply hydrogen to a fuel cell vehicle. The current electrolyzer prototype is 13-percent more efficient and costs 93-percent less than other comparable electrolyzers on the • Read More »

I’ve talked about high temperature cracking of water to create hydrogen before. I’ve also talked about adding a catalyst such as aluminum or magnesium to aid the cracking of water into hydrogen. Now a Japanese company, FUKAI Environmental Research Institute has found a way to do both and do so at low cost. According to • Read More »

In 2007, I had talked about Purdue University using aluminum, gallium and fresh water to produce hydrogen. This technology still has promise. Today, however, Purdue has put a slightly different spin on the same goal using aluminum, plus a liquid alloy of gallium, indium and tin to produce hydrogen from seawater. Why is this different? • Read More »

Okay, I’ll admit this is a stretch and not everyone is going to like this idea. But, I enjoy talking about possible future technology so this possibility has caught my attention. Some would say this is “leading edge technology” while others will say this is “bleeding edge technology”. But, according to an article in the • Read More »

Back in December 2007, I talked about how two chemical companies in Canada were starting to capture the waste hydrogen when producing sodium chlorate. The H2 they had simply been burning off was enough to provide hydrogen fuel to 20,000 cars. Now, another chemical plant is making a conversion so that it uses its hydrogen • Read More »