Category: Hydrogen Fuel Production

Researcher Jeffrey Long and his colleagues at UC Berkeley have discovered a cost effective way to make hydrogen from seawater using a molybdenum-oxo catalyst and a mercury electrode. This is not Long’s first foray into H2 either as back in 2005, he was working on developing hydrogen storage materials for use in cars. In September […]

When I first heard that researchers were developing for a way for water and sand to produce hydrogen, it gave me pause. If it were this easy, wouldn’t all of the beaches of the world be producing massive amounts of hydrogen? But, of course, it’s not quite this simple. A company called Isis Innovation has […]

I’ve talked about artificial photosynthesis before and how scientists are trying to recreate how plants turn sunlight and water into hydrogen and oxygen. I’ve talked about using solar energy and algae for this process. And, I’ve talked about using bacteria to create hydrogen. Now, I want to talk about solar energy plus a virus named […]

eHydrogen Solutions, Inc. has created its H2-Reactor hydrogen on demand system that uses only water and metal alloys. The H2-Reactor system uses aluminum or magnesium alloys plus water to create hydrogen fuel for cars or for stationary fuel cells for residential or industrial applications. I’ve talked about eHydrogen Solutions once before when they developed their […]

Researchers 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 […]

Normally, 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 […]

According 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 […]

Now 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 […]

Here’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 […]

Over the past few years, I’ve talked many times about the merits of combining aluminum and water to create hydrogen. Researchers have been working on using aluminum both inside and outside the car for such hydrogen on demand production. Some of these methods involve using either an aluminum alloy or aluminum, water and some other […]