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GE Energy's IGCC low emission power plants lead the way in California

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Airbus 2020, Fuel 50% down, open rotor - 2040 Hydrogen Fuel cell

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New Tech, Conversion of water

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Monaco YachtShow 2009 Solar-Cleantech Yachts

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Hydrogen Storage Gets New Hope

A new method for “recycling” hydrogen-containing fuel materials could open the... more

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Wegmans Grocery Gets $1 Million Grant for Fuel Cell Technology

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Low Temperature Nuclear Fusion Power for Unlimited Energy, and the Bible Code

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Honda Prefers Hydrogen as U.S. Pushes Battery Autos

Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Honda Motor Co. is backing hydrogen power for the cars of the... more

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The Very Latest SOHO Image of the Sun

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Natural Gas Fuel; A Bridge To....What?

Last year T. Boone Pickens brought the concept of natural gas as a vehicle fuel into the national stream of consciousness when he launched his “Pickens Plan”. Since then the concept has evolved to the point where there are several pieces of legislation making their way through Congress (Natural Gas Act of 2009)and the Senate which will encourage the more widespread implementation of this “green” fossil fuel. Recent estimates of the natural gas reserves in the United States indicate that we have a 100 year supply which is equal to all of the oil in Saudi Arabia. Pickens and his supporters are calling natural gas a bridge fuel to a greener tomorrow but some critics seem unsure of how this could work.

In this story I will attempt to answer those doubts by building that bridge in realistic terms from readily available information. In simplest terms Pickens CNG “bridge” can extend the time we have to transition to another vehicle fuel no matter what type. In a previous story (Why The Future of Transportation Fuel Is Hydrogen)I pointed out that hydrogen fuel is the logical choice as our eventual primary fuel because, when produced from water using solar or wind energy, it is 100% non polluting and 100% renewable. In addition, in the near term, it is the one fuel which can be produced from anything domestically available that we are currently using as a fuel including fossil sources and renewables. From my perspective Pickens has created the best, most viable option for a transition to 100% clean hydrogen fuel.

Hydrogen energy has, to this point, faced a lot of obstacles because it requires a specialized storage and distribution infrastructure and, even though it can be used with our familiar, internal combustion engine powered vehicles (with the proper storage and fuel system), the cost of the infrastructure necessary combined with the fact that it is much better to use hydrogen with fuel cell vehicles in order to take advantage of its full potential and the cost of producing hydrogen have all served to keep hydrogen energy stalled at the verge of being implemented. In financial terms it is something of a chicken or egg scenario; do we build the infrastructure with no cars available or build the cars with no infrastructure or invest hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into building both simultaneously?

Pickens idea of using natural gas as the vehicle to transport us into an independent, green energy transportation future provides the only viable option from the perspectives of both economic viability and seamlessness of transition. In fact India has been quietly pursuing this same concept for at least the past 5 years or more and doing it from an angle that is not even mentioned as an option in the US.

It started when the Indian government mandated that all public vehicles in Delhi be converted to run on CNG fuel in order to cut pollution in the city. CNG fuel produces 25% less CO2 pollution than gasoline vehicles and 90% fewer other pollutants. From there the concept evolved into one where the vehicles are running on a mix of CNG and hydrogen fuel. This mixture further reduces CO2 pollution by a percentage roughly equal to the percentage of hydrogen mixed into the CNG stream. In a press release from this past January it was revealed that all of the Indian car manufacturers are now working together to develop cars for retail sale which will be optimized to run on this fuel mix.

Clink link above to read entire story...Last year T. Boone Pickens brought the concept of natural gas as a vehicle fuel into... more

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Shell hydrogen available in the Bronx?

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New Method for Realizing Hydrogen Potential

Hydrogen has alot of potential in the changing world, this new method helps brings... more

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Will Toyota Corner The Hydrogen Vehicle Market In 2015?

Recently Toyota announced that they would be introducing a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle... more

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World's First Zero-Emission Hydrogen Power Plant Coming To New Mexico

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Would you like to make your car a hybrid? What if it cost less than a paycheck?

Few people have heard of it, which is why its here. There is a guy (not listed below) that has a DIY system that will work for the average person. I am thinking of doing a pod on it... but, would like some group feedback first. Let me know, what do you think?

Power Your Vehicle With Water
For months, we all have had troubles as per how we would be able to fill up our car's gas and fuel tanks when the gas prices were soaring like they have never soared before. For months, we have tried to find ways and even alternative answers to this dilemma that all car owners were facing. If only water could be used as fuel for our vehicles, we would have done so even before. But is it possible to use water as fuel?

Of course, many people would answer no. And many scientists have tried looking for ways to actually make and create a vehicle that could run on water as fuel. And it looks like their efforts have not been put to waste.

You see, the HyPower Fuel Inc. has already announced to the world that they have been able to successfully make a vehicle run and function with only water as its main source of fuel. The company also did share that the vehicle is just an ordinary Volkswagen GTI with also ordinary Volkswagen car parts making up the vehicle. But the only thing not so ordinary about this Volkswagen GTI is the fact that underneath its hood, HyPower has installed an H2 Reactor (or H2R) hydrogen system.

The H2R hydrogen system is actually a system that has the capacity to produce the right amount of hydrogen that the vehicle needs. And all it needs is water so as to create the much needed hydrogen. This system makes use of electrolysis which actually converts water so much so that it becomes hydrogen gas or oxygen gas. And when this has been done, the gas can then be used to give the vehicle power to do what it has been meant to do.

Doug Bender is the president of HyPower and he does share, "This is an extremely significant advance in that a vehicle with a standard internal combustion engine can be powered with hydrogen produced onboard as needed. Other hydrogen vehicles require special storage tanks to supply the highly compressed gas to the engine. This is not yet a practical application as there are simply very few available refueling stations for these vehicles."Few people have heard of it, which is why its here. There is a guy (not listed below)... more

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Circulus concept car: 360º spin and hydrogen

This concept car -- the Circulus car -- is all about the 360º spin. With an... more

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Is Hydrogen the Best of the Green Fuels? -- Seeking Alpha

Economist Dian Chu takes a look at the future of hydrogen fuel (with help from me).

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Obama Favors Plug-in Hybrids over Hydrogen Vehicles

When President George W. Bush was in the White House, he hyped hydrogen as the future of the automobile industry. But with President Obama now on the job, the next major step for the nation's cars and trucks comes with a plug.

Obama laid out the goal of putting 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015 during the summer of 2008, as he campaigned for the presidency. It was ambitious then but may prove even more difficult now that a slumping economy has brought two of Detroit's Big Three automakers into bankruptcy court and dragged new car and truck sales to under 10 million a year—well below the high-water mark of roughly 17 million in 2005.

Obama has vowed to keep the government from using its newfound ownership stakes in General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Group, LLC, to decide what makes and models roll off the assembly lines of the two iconic carmakers. But while Obama and his auto task force won't be calling the shots in the board room, their preference for plug-ins has been made clear.

New industry-wide fuel economy and emission standards will go into effect for model year 2012. That is two years after GM plans to roll out its much-hyped Chevy Volt, an extended-range plug-in hybrid capable of running 40 miles without tapping into its gas tank but almost a decade before many experts believe hydrogen cars will make it to the market.

The $787 billion stimulus package that Obama signed into law earlier this year provided $2.4 billion for the development of plug-ins and the advanced batteries they rely on for power. The government is also offering tax credits up to $7,500 for the purchase of plug-in cars and trucks, and more plug-in aid could be on the way as part of sweeping climate and energy legislation that congressional Democrats hope to move this year.

Hydrogen halted

Automakers, which have long urged the government to avoid picking winners and losers among emerging technologies, certainly welcome the increased funding. But they have recently started a quiet revolt over the Energy Department's decision to slash federal funding for hydrogen tech, which was touted by Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address.

Not only does Obama's budget request propose slashing the federal funding for hydrogen cars by $100 million—a 60 percent reduction—but it also has proved to be a harbinger for DOE's decision on how to divvy up $25 billion in Section 136 loans, which will help carmakers and parts suppliers retool to produce more fuel-efficient cars and trucks.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who has final say over which companies and projects get the federal cash, has cited a suite of barriers to hydrogen car deployment in his decision to idle the vehicles program. "We asked ourselves, 'Is it likely in the next 10 or 15, 20 years that we will covert to a hydrogen car economy?' The answer, we felt, was 'no,'" Chu said recently.

DOE announced the first round of winners for the government-backed loans last month, handing out $8 billion to Ford Motor Co., Nissan North America and Tesla Motors Inc. to finance improvements to electric vehicles, batteries and even traditional internal combustion engines. None of the loan money was slated for hydrogen projects.

With hydrogen falling to the wayside, at least for the foreseeable future, the industry has lined up with Obama's vision of a plug-in future. In addition to GM's plunge into plug-ins, almost every other major automakers has announced plans to develop plug-in hybrids or all-electric cars. Toyota Motor Corp. will produce a few hundred plug-in Prius hybrids later this year as a test fleet, and Nissan is planning to sell an all-electric car next year.

FOLLOW LINK FOR REST OF ARTICLEWhen President George W. Bush was in the White House, he hyped hydrogen as the future... more