Archives: Hydrogen Fuel Production

GE Energy has won a bid to install a hydrogen gas turbine generator, fueled by garbage, in Rome, Italy. The LM2500+G4 water-injected generator will be installed at the Malagrotta Power Plant and generate 32 megawatts of electricity. The gas turbine generator will be able to run off high hydrogen syngas (or natural gas). The process • Read More »

Yesterday, I talked about the FutureGen clean coal power plant being built in Mattoon, Illinois. Today, I want to talk about a parallel project called GreenGen that is being built in China. As you probably already know, next to the United States, China is the largest gross polluter on this earth, largely due to the • Read More »

I talked about it a couple of days ago and now it’s official. The new FutureGen clean coal power plant will be planted in Mattoon, Illinois. Mattoon is a town of less than 20,000 in east-central Illinois known as the “Bagel Capital of the World” and home to the Soybean Museum. Illinois beat out Texas • Read More »

I’ve talked about the FutureGen clean coal initiative a few times in the past, first to talk about how WGI has joined as one of the major players in building the facilities and second to talk about how China has thrown their hat into the ring as well. But, now FutureGen is becoming less of • Read More »

Two chemical companies in North Vancouver have been wasting enough hydrogen to fuel 20,000 cars. The Canadian IWHUP (Integrated Waste Hydrogen Utilization Project) seeks to correct this problem. The Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corporation (HTEC) will be capturing the waste hydrogen from companies Erco and Nexen, cleaning and compressing it for commercial use. Hydrogen is • Read More »

Hydrogenics, a company devoted to hydrogen generation and fuel cell production, has signed a contract with Ford Motor Company to sell one of its HySTAT-30 stations to the automaker. The Hydrogenics HySTAT hydrogen generation station uses electrolysis to create H2 from water. Ford will use the HySTAT station upon its fuel cell testing grounds in • Read More »

Researchers at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have discovered that lithium borohydride (LiBH4) holds promise in creating massive amounts of hydrogen cheaply. Lithium borohydride is a hydrogen rich compound with a high energy density that has been proposed over the years for use as rocket fuel. The ESRF scientists have discovered a new form of • Read More »

In June 2006, I had talked about how Hydrogen Power Inc. (HPI) was developing its AlumiFuel technology that uses aluminum plus an environmentally-friendly catalyst and water to generate high grade hydrogen gas. Since this time, HPI has upgraded their AlumiFuel hydrogen on demand technology offering a 60-percent increase in hydrogen production. This same technology also • Read More »

Over at Inhabitat is an interesting article about a proposal for a novel way to produce, store and distribute hydrogen for vehicles. The proposal calls for giant algae ponds coupled with large balloons to be built and set up in urban areas to generate hydrogen onsite for the refueling of automobiles. A creative group in • Read More »