Archive for category Hydrogen Power

Hyundai i-Blue Concept to Become Reality in 2012

Posted by Mike in Hybrid vehicles, Hydrogen Power on September 2, 2010

Hyundai plans to become a leader in the field of electric and hybrid vehicles. So far the company has revealed numerous concepts and production vehicles. Among them is the 2007 Hyundai i-Blue, a zero-emissions concept car powered by hydrogen and by the last generation of fuel cell technology that the automaker has.

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Hyundai FCV Fuel Cell Car To Be Launched 3 Years Earlier Than Toyota’s

Posted by Ovidiu in Hydrogen Power on August 31, 2010

Fuel cell cars have just begun to show up shyly, and the competition is already high in this field. Toyota, who announced a $50,000 price tag on their first hydrogen fuel cell car, is being beaten by Hyundai, who announced their first fuel cell vehicle three years earlier than Toyota

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Hydrogen Tank Exploded in Green Fuel Station. Is The Technology Safe Enough for Cars?

Posted by Ovidiu in Hydrogen Power on August 28, 2010

Hydrogen, the most clean fuel in the universe, has been seen with skepticism by many. Although bad events involving exploded hydrogen tanks are rare, Monroe County’s (NY) hydrogen station on Scottsville Road experienced the explosion of two tanks filled with hydrogen.

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Daniel Nocera’s New Catalyst Produces 200 Percent More Efficient Electrolyzers

Posted by Mike in Hydrogen Power on August 26, 2010

Scientists have recently discovered that, among other sources, still water can generate renewable energy. Using an electrolyzer, water is broken into hydrogen and oxygen. In this process, catalysts are needed for oxygen production, most of which are not cheap, nor environment-friendly.

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Horizon’s Aeropak Fuel Cells Doubling Unmanned Aircraft Flight Time

Posted by Ovidiu in Hydrogen Power on August 24, 2010

Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) are usually the prototypes preceding manned ones, and hence new technologies have to be tested thoroughly before applied to manned, real-life situations. UAVs have been tinkering with fuel cells lately to show that they’re capable to perform flight for an increasing period of time.

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Italy to Have Solar-Powered Hydrogen Refueling Pumps at Every New Gas Station

Posted by Ovidiu in Hydrogen Power on August 24, 2010

Italy seems to be the perfect place for a hydrogen infrastructure to develop in Europe. Acta, an Italian company, has plans to install their new hydrogen refilling stations throughout the country. They use solar power to perform electrolysis on water and extract the hydrogen.

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Lung-Shaped Fuel Cell Decreases Platinum Usage, Increases Efficiency

Posted by Ovidiu in Hydrogen Power on August 23, 2010

An interesting case of biomimetrics comes from Norway’s Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo, where Signe Kjelstrup designed a fuel cell having the interior structure similar to that of the lungs. This is a case where both the shape and the function were imported from naturally-developed organisms.

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VW Testing Hydrogen Fuel Cell Version of Bora on European Highways

Posted by Mircea in Hydrogen Power on August 19, 2010

Volkswagen has recently tested two of their most advanced clean car technologies in a long-range drive, between France and Italy. The Volkswagen Bora HY.POWER and the SunFuel Bora TDI (Jetta in the U.S.) were successfully driven over the Simplon Pass, once again proving their efficiency.

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Ballard’s Hydrogen Fuel Cell Generator to Power 500 Ohio Homes

Posted by Mike in Hydrogen Power on August 17, 2010

According to the company, this giant generator (large as a tractor trailer truck) is planned to be shipped to Ohio where it will be plugged into the power grid. Also being powered by hydrogen, it has a source of energy that can be extracted from a clean natural resource such as water.

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Hydrogen Makes Metals Brittle: Fraunhofer Researchers Improving Material Technologies

Posted by Ovidiu in Energy Storage, Hydrogen Power on August 17, 2010

Being the core of the dispute between early electric car adopters, hydrogen may be the solution to the electric movement, eventually even beating batteries by cleanliness. The technology behind hydrogen powered cars poses a few issues, though.

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