Archives: Hydrogen Fuel Production

Michigan State University (MSU) researchers are working on helping farmers recover their farm’s waste and turn it into energy. The energy recovered will be in the form of hydrogen and biofuels which can be used around the farm to run equipment, machinery, vehicles and supply energy to the homes. According to MSU, “Gemma Reguera, MSU • Read More »

On August 7, 2008 I had talked about NASA testing their hydrogen-powered VASIMR plasma rocket on the International Space Station. On April 17, 2009 I had talked about NASA building a renewable hydrogen fueling station in Cleveland, Ohio. If you were to check out this NASA page you will see how the U. S. space • Read More »

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena have developed a new way to split water at low temperatures in order to create hydrogen and oxygen. While many scientists are working on ways to create hydrogen using solar panels or wind turbines, the Pasadena scientists are looking to create H2 gas using waste • Read More »

A couple of weeks ago I had talked about how the Aberdeen, Scotland City Council was offering a hydrogen vehicle (Hyundai Tucson ix35) for their car-sharing members to test drive for free. This was the first time a car-sharing club had done such a feat. Now, in an effort to help out the Scottish pro-hydrogen • Read More »

A company named HyperSolar, Incorporated has recently revealed a technological breakthrough in using solar plus water to produce hydrogen. And the kicker is that any kind of water, dirty to clean can be used in this process. How does the breakthrough technology do this? The solar electrolysis of water starts at the nanoscale in order • Read More »

I’ve talked about the artificial leaf many times before as a novel idea in which significant amounts of hydrogen could be produced. In fact, in March of 2011, I had talked about a researcher named Daniel Nocera, Ph.D. who had created such an artificial leaf and was putting the polishing touches on it. Today, however • Read More »

Yesterday I had talked about how a senior chemist, Radoslav Adzic, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (run by the DOE) had won the 2012 Inventor of the Year Award for his work with reducing the amount of platinum needed in fuel cells. Well, today the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has some more big news this • Read More »

Both Linde and TOTAL have taken a step in reducing the world’s carbon footprint by supplying green hydrogen to fuel cell vehicles in Germany this past week. Both companies are producing hydrogen from clean and renewable resources. According to Linde, “The hydrogen generated from biodiesel by-products at the company’s pilot plant in Leuna, Germany, was • Read More »

A hydrogen-hybrid power station has started up in Prenzlau, Germany. The hydrogen from the power station is going to feed cars in Berlin and Hamburg. The power station creates hydrogen by wind to hydrogen methods and biogas to hydrogen methods. Both methods are green and create no CO2 gases. According to deutschebahn.com, “The aim of • Read More »

I’ve talked in the past about thermochemical cracking of water at high temperatures to create hydrogen. Nuclear power plants already produce waste steam and heat, two of the ingredients needed to create hydrogen from water. And while high temperature cracking of water into hydrogen and oxygen has been talked about and experimented with for years, • Read More »