by guest blogger Stan Thompson When asked “How’s your wife?” Henny Youngman famously quipped, “Compared to what?” Lately I’ve been conflicted by the flurry of interest in High Speed Rail and the several states whose governors have “just said ‘no thank you.’” My hunch is that they may have made the right call for the • Read More »
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Scottish Scientists Working on H2 Storage Tanks for Future Airplanes
February 10, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Storage, Hydrogen Fuel Tanks.Researchers at the University of Glasgow are working with two companies, EADS and Hydrogen Horizons, using nanotechnology to alter hydrogen storage tanks for use in future airplanes. The researchers will be using a Hydrogen Horizons Hydrisafe tank and altering the materials used in it on a nanoscale to see if they can squeeze more H2 • Read More »
I Have a Dream about Hydrogen Cars
January 17, 2011 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 11 Comments | Filed in: Political Issues.Since this is celebrated as Martin Luther King Day across the U. S. I thought I would put my own hydrogen car spin on this special day. It starts out with Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. And my apologies upfront to the late Dr. King, his family and the American people for • Read More »
Hydrogen Buses Rolling, Rolling, Rolling
December 21, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 4 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Buses.Over the past week and a half there has been a lot of news regarding hydrogen buses. So, I want to provide a summary to each story. The United Kingdom’s first hydrogen bus has been launched and will service London’s RV1 route. Seven more hydrogen powered buses will be added to the same route in • Read More »
West Virginia University Adds to Eastern Hydrogen Highway
November 24, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on West Virginia University Adds to Eastern Hydrogen Highway | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations, Hydrogen Highways.As Big Oil such as Shell Hydrogen are abandoning their H2 fueling stations from the East Coast in New York and Washington DC, some smaller players are picking up the slack and further developing the Eastern United States. I’ve already talked about the SunHydro East Coast Hydrogen Highway a time or two putting hydrogen fueling • Read More »
AVL FCC Fuel Cell Commuter Unveiled
October 21, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 3 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.In my last blog post I talked about how China was charging forward with fuel cell vehicles. At the Austria Tech Week event held at the Expo Shanghai 2010 in China, a company called AVL rolled out its Fuel Cell Commuter (FCC). The AVL FCC is basically a battery electric car that uses a hydrogen • Read More »
SunHydro Digs In as Shell Pulls Out
October 15, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.In an interesting twist of events, the same day that SunHydro announces its grand opening of the East Coast Hydrogen Highway, Shell Oil has announced the closing of its hydrogen fueling stations on the East Coast. Is this due to coincidence, competition or something else? I’ve talked about SunHydro’s East Coast Hydrogen Highway before and • Read More »
ITM Power and Scottish Water Test HFUEL Electrolyzer
September 13, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 1 Comment | Filed in: Hydrogen Fueling Stations.ITM Power, maker of low cost electrolyzer units for refueling cars and other applications has teamed up with Scottish Water, one of the largest water companies in the United Kingdom that has a fleet of over 1,500 vehicles. ITM Power will be testing its HFUEL high volume, 5,000 psi transportable hydrogen refueling unit for commercial • Read More »
Spin on Hydrogen Fueling Station Explosion and Fire
August 30, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 7 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Safety.Late last week two Praxair hydrogen tanks at a hydrogen fueling station in Rochester, NY partially exploded and caused a fire. The person closest to the explosion is in the hospital in satisfactory condition and another person was treated for minor ear pain and released. Now, if you’re a hydrogen detractor as they apparently are • Read More »
London Fuel Cell Black Cab Is Unveiled
June 11, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 7 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.Yesterday I talked about how ITM Power was putting up a hydrogen fueling station at the Stansted Airport in London in 2011. And, in February 2010 I had talked about how the London fuel cell black taxi cabs were coming to London for the 2012 Olympics. Well now one of those hydrogen hybrid black taxis • Read More »