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• Steve Williams Says Pep Boys Should Lead Charge for Hydrogen Car Conversions Hydrogen Cars Now (Today) - Several years ago I heard from Steve Williams with his proposal that the automotive parts and repair chain Pep Boys lead the charge in converting vehicles with internal combustion engines to run on hydrogen and providing H2 fueling stations at the stores themselves.This unique idea...
• Metal Organic Frameworks or MOFs to Store Hydrogen Cheaply Hydrogen Cars Now (2 days ago) - MOFOne of the problems with rolling out hydrogen cars and a fueling infrastructure in the short term is coming up with cheap, lightweight and low pressure hydrogen fuel storage tanks. The hydrogen fuel tanks that are available now are either heavy and expensive such as...
• Evaluating Institutional On-site Clean Energy Renewable Energy World (3 days ago) - Earlier this month, I attended EUCI’s Utilizing Clean Power Development Conference in Philadelphia.  The conference attracted a variety of large institutions (hospitals, municipalities, universities, etc.), developers, and financers to discuss the opportunity and challenges surrounding deployment of on-site renewable energy.  Instit...
• HyEngine Converts Internal Combustion Engines to run on H2 Hydrogen Cars Now (3 days ago) - HyEngineOver the past year I’ve exchanged a few emails with Jonas Grooten of HyEngine Solutions. Instead of working on fuel cells, HyEngine converts vehicles with internal combustion engines to run on hydrogen.Here is what Jonas Grooten had to say in his last email:“My colleague, Olivier...
• Element One Hydrogen Safety America’s Top Energy Innovator Hydrogen Cars Now (4 days ago) - The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) is running a promotion called “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator Challenge.” This is part of the Startup America initiative that makes it easier for small start-up companies to use technology developed by the DOE’s 17 national laboratories plus...
• California breaks rank again, demands over 15% of cars sold be non-polluting by 2025 Autoblog Green (7 days ago) - Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Hydrogen, Legislation and Policy Less than a year after everyone with any sort of say in the matter seemed to agree that 54.5 miles per gallon by the year 2025 was a properly attainable goal, the California Air Resources Board has...
• How seawater could corrode nuclear fuel ScienceDaily (Thursday, 26 January) - Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 -- and that was probably the best action to take at the time, say experts. But researchers have since discovered a new way in which seawater...
• Hydrogen Solar Prius Takes Coast to Coast Road Trip Hydrogen Cars Now (Thursday, 26 January) - Hydrogen Prius Plug-inOne of the last times I had talked about Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) and their inventive professor Dr. Clifton Ricketts was in April 2007. At that time Dr. Ricketts was figuring out how to break his own land-speed record for hydrogen cars...
• Wind to Hydrogen Fueling Station for Town of Hempstead, New York Hydrogen Cars Now (Wednesday, 25 January) - The last time I had talked about the Town of Hempstead (part of Long Island, NY) was back in February, 2009. At that point they were installing their first hydrogen fueling station and fueling up a GM Equinox Fuel Cell vehicle which was part of...
• Small Home Hydrogen Production Near Commercialization Hydrogen Cars Now (Tuesday, 24 January) - A UK firm called RE Hydrogen has invented a hydrogen compressor that is 30-percent the cost of others on the market. This means that not only can the compressors be smaller but the complimentary electrolyzers can be smaller and less costly as well.According to The...
• South Africa to Test Hydrogen Fuel Cell Mining Locomotive Hydrogen Cars Now (Thursday, 19 January) - In September 2008, I had first talked about South Africa trying to market platinum for fuel cells worldwide. You see, South Africa mines about 80-percent of the world’s supply of platinum and would like to continue selling this expensive metal long into the future.But, it...
• UKH2Mobility Plan Offers Road Map for Upcoming Hydrogen Cars Hydrogen Cars Now (Wednesday, 18 January) - I’ve talked many times over the past years about the German H2Mobility plan. Germany and the surrounding countries have been planning a European Union Hydrogen Highway system for the past decade. Part of this H2 highway system has included the United Kingdom.Well, now the UK...
• Japanese Students Take Initiative and Build Hydrogen Car Hydrogen Cars Now (Tuesday, 17 January) - Osaka Hydrogen CarA group of Japanese students at Osaka Sangyo University took it upon themselves to build a hydrogen car and unveiled it in Tokyo last Friday. They didn’t have the usual support system in place in which to do this.According to the Mainichi Daily...
• Hydrogen Fueling Station Placed Near the North Pole Hydrogen Cars Now (Monday, 16 January) - innish H2 Fueling StationI’ve talked many times and in many of the past years how hydrogen fuel cells are lighting up Christmas around the world. Now, Santa is getting his own hydrogen fueling station and one that he’s willing to share with others.H2 Logic decided...
• When We Struggle, We Learn Renewable Energy World (Monday, 16 January) - If there was one key takeaway from the most recent RenewableEnergyWorld.com and Solar Power-gen webcast it was that the year ahead will be difficult for large-scale solar power development due to poor access to capital, an uncertain policy landscape, the pending trade case against...
• Building a sustainable hydrogen economy ScienceDaily (Sunday, 15 January) - The concept of the hydrogen economy (HE), in which hydrogen would replace the carbon-based fossil fuels of the twentieth century was first mooted in the 1970s. Today, HE is seen as a potential solution to the dual global crises of climate change and dwindling oil...
• Algae for your fuel tank ScienceDaily (Friday, 13 January) - The available amount of fossil fuels is limited and their combustion in vehicle motors increases atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The generation of fuels from biomass as an alternative is on the rise. Scientists have now introduced a new catalytic process that allows the effective conversion...
• One-third of car fuel consumption is due to friction loss ScienceDaily (Friday, 13 January) - No less than one-third of a car's fuel consumption is spent in overcoming friction, and this friction loss has a direct impact on both fuel consumption and emissions. However, new technology can reduce friction by anything from 10 to 80 percent in various components of...
• Quantum Teams Up With India’s Mahindra for Hydrogen ICE Vehicles Hydrogen Cars Now (Friday, 13 January) - In my last post, I had talked about a fleet of 3-wheel hydrogen vehicles called HyAlfa being rolled out in India. These vehicles use converted internal combustion engines (ICE) for power.Today I want to talk about a different company in India Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.,...
• Tesla Model S, BMW i3 among 2012 Green Car Vision finalists Autoblog Green (Friday, 13 January) - Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Hydrogen, BMW, Cadillac, Ford, Mercedes Benz, Tesla Motors, Washington DC Auto Show Tesla's Model S, the BMW i3, the Cadillac ELR, the Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-Cell and the Ford C-MAX Energi are the finalists for Green Car Journal's 2012 Green...
• Fleet of HyAlfa Three Wheelers Unveiled in India Hydrogen Cars Now (Wednesday, 11 January) - HyAlfaI first talked about the Hy-Alfa (at that time it was hyphenated) in August 2009. Back then it was something that was being worked on in India, but there were no guarantees that it would ever make it to the testing phase.Now, a fleet of...
• Mercedes E Superlight Fuel Cell Slated for 2015 Hydrogen Cars Now (Tuesday, 10 January) - Mercedes E SuperlightWhile critics are disregarding the wisdom of rolling out hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the year 2015, Mercedes (and all of the other major automakers) is plunging straight ahead. Assuming that we all make it past the Mayan end of times prophecy for...
• Wanted: Chinese Cleantech Capital and Connections Renewable Energy World (Monday, 9 January) - With the emergence of China as the globe’s cleantech powerhouse (see Why China has already overtaken the U.S. in cleantech), it’s become fashionable for cleantech companies seeking large purchase orders to target China. What’s not been so popular is to go to China seeking investment...
• Obama Cleantech Stimulus: Bad Policy, Bad Politics and Bad for Cleantech Renewable Energy World (Monday, 9 January) - The Solyndra debacle is no surprise to this cleantech venture capitalist. The inherent conflict between trying to get money out of the U.S. Treasury as quickly as possible to stimulate the economy and, at the same time, have government agencies that are ill-suited at making business...
• Japan's Tipping Point Renewable Energy World (Monday, 9 January) - Most of you in the renewable energy world probably don't know me yet.  This is my first blog here, so let me introduce myself.  I write books for a living (a sort of living).  In 2010, I published a book on public health (Inside...
• Tackling the Renewable Energy Transmission Tiger - Is There Hope? Is There Help? Renewable Energy World (Friday, 6 January) - Building transmission to accommodate utility-scale renewable energy generation in the U.S. is seen as essential by much of the renewable energy industry. But can it be justified? Doing so will necessarily involve constructing some of the longest stretches of wire ever undertaken in this...
• Mercedes-Benz developing E Superlight as its new carbon fiber halo sedan Autoblog Green (Wednesday, 4 January) - Filed under: Hydrogen, Mercedes Benz, Lightweight Automakers need halo cars. They bring people into the showroom and demonstrate just what their engineers can do. Typically those range-topping vehicles come in the form of sports cars - think Audi R8, Dodge Viper, Lexus LFA et al...
• Argonne National Laboratory Making Discoveries in Hydrogen Production Hydrogen Cars Now (Wednesday, 4 January) - The Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has recently made great strides in cheaply and efficiently producing hydrogen. One of the long standing problems of creating hydrogen from water has been energy consumption.According to ANL, “Easier routes to the generation of hydrogen have long been a target...
• Turkey Unveils Its First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Boat Hydrogen Cars Now (Tuesday, 3 January) - Turkey Fuel Cell BoatThe last time I talked Turkey was November 9, 2011 to discuss the country’s first fuel cell car which was unveiled. The fuel cell car runs on sodium borohydride (NaBH4) which is created from the main mineral mined in Turkey, boron.Today I...
• Cost-effectiveness of biofuels and their ability to cut fossil fuel use questioned ScienceDaily (Monday, 2 January) - A new study questions the cost-effectiveness of biofuels and says they would barely reduce fossil fuel use and would likely increase greenhouse gas emissions....

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