Hydrogen Cars, Vehicles and Infrastructure
Includes hydrogen infrastructure issues not covered in production, storage and distribution areas.
You’ve probably watched countless construction sites belch diesel fumes into the air, their generators roaring through the night like industrial dinosaurs. But something extraordinary is happening in London right now that will change everything you thought you knew about massive infrastructure projects. The HS2 construction site isn’t just building Britain’s future high-speed rail network—it’s quietly […]
Continue ReadingAs the global push for clean energy intensifies, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional gasoline-powered cars and even battery-electric vehicles (BEVs). While battery-electric cars dominate much of the conversation around sustainable transportation, hydrogen-powered vehicles offer unique advantages, particularly for commercial and industrial applications. Ohio, a state with a […]
Continue ReadingThe hydrogen economy is no longer a distant dream. It’s a reality being built brick by brick, or rather, molecule by molecule. Two giants in the clean energy space, Hyundai and Plug Power, are making monumental strides in advancing hydrogen infrastructure, each in their own corner of the world. Hyundai is flexing its industrial muscle […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson If you’ve ever seen a slow-motion video of a dropped glass object shattering, then—the video reversed—reassembling to form the whole again, you have some notion of futurism. Futurists pay attention to the moving fragments all around us: which are biggest; how they are shaped and spinning; and the direction toward […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson updated 12/21/2020 In the late 1800s Nikola Tesla took Thomas Edison’s DC and alternated the polarity back and forth so that its voltage could be stepped up by a transformer and hauled much further by overcoming electrical resistance. Way off in the distance, at the user end, another transformer stepped […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson Very different processes distribute the earth’s mineral wealth and the political configurations of its surface. Though different, they coincide in ways that profoundly impact our destinies. In the late industrial period, the relative value of energy has been so high, and energy extraction as oil and gas has been so […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson Davidson College is near our NC home and its proximity offers neighbors access to an astonishing parade of great minds. In 1962 I met cosmologist George Gamow there and got to ask him a few questions. Albert Einstein had died only seven years earlier; some would say Gamow was his […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson The world may little note nor long remember the routine June 8, 2020, press release by Germany’s venerable Thyssenkrupp industrial giant. But to me it is a transition marker that’s profound in the same way that the tiny band of iridium and ash around the world marks the cretaceous-tertiary boundary […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger Stan Thompson When Russia and Japan recently exchanged econdev ideas (December 2019) at the ministerial level, two of the specifics discussed were hydrogen production and greater use of the Trans-Siberia Railway. Those two dots, connected with others, could lead to Russia leaping the high speed bump now obstructing the way to wireless fuel cell […]
Continue Readingby guest blogger, Stan Thompson Let’s limit the damage to hydrogen progress caused by “friendly fire.” Good reportage, scholarship and fair play do not require that every article point out that most hydrogen comes from extracted carbon. It’s true, it’s undeniable—but it’s totally irrelevant. The vast amounts of hydrogen produced from hydrocarbons to make petrochemicals, […]
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