There is no hydrogen fueled economy for a very simple reason.
There is no hydrogen available to the public, even though it is the most prevalent element in the Universe.

Industry uses billions of pounds of hydrogen per year but unless you are in the oil refining, plastics production, edible food oil, paint manufacturing, computer chip manufacturing, steel making, or other major industry and want to use hydrogen on an industrial scale, it is hard to come by. The great majority of in… Continue

UTC Power has announced that their 5 kW fuel cell is being used inside a new BMW Series 1 Hybrid electric car. The unveiling this week was during the 25th anniversary BMW ZT celebration in Munich, Germany.

UTC has been working on this fuel cell since 1999. According to UTC Vice President, Ken Stewart, “From a fully frozen state, the fuel cell is half way to full power in less than 30 seconds. The system uses UTC Power’s
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I get tired of the Chicken Little’s of the world or the advocates of other alternative fuel vehicles comparing hydrogen cars to the Hindenburg. The Hindenburg fallacy I’ve addressed on the website, blog and in
numerous emails ad nauseam.

Numerous manufacturers including GM and Honda have put their cars through extensive crash tests to make sure no explosions will occur. This has once again validated by GM in real world sit

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According to CEO Ronny Bar-Gadda of Genesys LLC there is a new technology that he’s invented called RET (radiant energy transfer) that is a breakthrough in producing hydrogen from water. According to Mr. Bar-Gadda,
this may just be the disruptive technology the H2 community has been waiting
for in regard to producing cost effective hydrogen from any feedstock of water.

The RET system is expected to provide head to head com

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Here’s a blast from the past. I want to take you back to 1999 when
the Gillette Mach 3 Challenger motorcycle broke the land speed record running on
hydrogen peroxide and aluminum and hit the record mark of 365 miles per
hour at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

In the past, I’ve talked many times about the merits of hydrogen
peroxide or… Continue