Archives: Infrastructure

Yesterday I received a press release from ITM Power and was granted an exclusive interview with their CEO Dr. Graham Cooley. ITM Power sees its HFuel mobile hydrogen high pressure hydrogen refueling station as their headline product. The HFuel unit is self contained and modular so it can be picked up by truck and transported • Read More »

Let’s make no mistake about it. The environmental disaster that is happening right now in the Gulf Coastal region is the worst oil spill in U. S. history. So, this begs the question (at least on this blog) as to where are all of the hydrogen cars and fueling stations along the Gulf Coast region • Read More »

About a year and a half ago I posted the question as to whether or not the large industrial gas companies could replace Big Oil at some point in the future. My thinking was that if we transition from a petroleum based transportation system to one based upon hydrogen, what companies would be most likely • Read More »

The Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) is said to be the world’s largest demonstration project for hydrogen cars and hydrogen refueling infrastructure. Some of the member companies of the CEP include Aral/BP, Berlin Public Transport (BVG), BMW, Daimler, Ford, GM/Opel, Hydro, the Linde Group, Total, Vattenfall Europe and the Volkswagen Group. Now, the CEP will have • Read More »

Computer modeling is being used in an increasing numbers of cases in recent years to make predictions about different events and possible outcomes. NOAA uses computer modeling to predict the path and severity of hurricanes. A company called ESRI is currently using computer modeling to track and predict the outbreak of the H1N1 virus (swine • Read More »

Gensler Design along with 4240 Architecture has just won a silver Spark Award for design excellence in transforming a 3-mile section of one of Chicago’s abandoned railway lines (pictured left) into a solar and Hydrogenerator powered farm and trail way. The idea is to transform the old Bloomingdale railroad viaduct that runs through the heart of • Read More »

Last Friday I talked about how plug-in vehicles lack a recharging infrastructure. Critics of hydrogen cars typically say that there is absolutely no hydrogen infrastructure whatsoever inside the U. S. But, that is not true. While hydrogen cars do lack an adequate refueling infrastructure, there is already some production and distribution going on of which • Read More »

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the vendors who now supply hydrogen to the big oil companies were to one day overtake them as the major suppliers of fuel for our nation’s cars? I’ve talked about the concept of large industrial specialty gas companies such as Air Products, Air Liquide and the Linde Group one day • Read More »