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Allen Coddington

Vice President, Arrgh Manufacturing Inc.

al@arrgh.com

3/13/2013

Arrgh Manufacturing Inc. of Novato California has developed and manufacturers a hydrogen gas detector and forced ventilation fan system for use in areas where hydrogen may be present.  The system complies with NFPA 2 Hydrogen Technology Code and is designed to be used in areas that have flooded fire…

I’ve talked many times about the Obama White House’s less than enthusiastic stance on hydrogen cars, putting money behind battery electric vehicles instead. And I’ve even talked in recent months how the President is warming up and evolving on the idea of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as a long range, zero emission, quick fueling solution.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who is on his way out of office, has even warmed up to the need in the marketplace for fuel cell vehicles. We…

First of all, many thanks to Dave for posting a link in last week’s blog post about the DOE 2012 Annual Report to an article about Ford, Nissan and Daimler joining forces. Because this is such a big story I would like to talk more about it today.

Three of the largest…

At the 2012 Paris Auto Show which ended about 10 days ago Hyundai had formalized a previous announce that will be a game-changer in the hydrogen car industry. The Korean car company stated that they will start commercial production of the Hyundai ix35 fuel cell vehicle in December 2012.

That’s right folks, in just two months, Hyundai will change history by starting to manufacturer the first commercial hydrogen fuel cell vehicle for sale and lease (instead of lease-only like a…

I’ve talked about the company HyperSolar a couple times in the past as a company dedicated to making direct solar to hydrogen systems. The photocatalyst the company has invented is immersed into water and then a light source is turned upon it, resulting in hydrogen production.



The Photocatalytic water splitting technique developed by HyperSolar is an efficient, low cost alternative to using platinum on electrodes. In fact, by happy accident, HyperSolar has discovered not only a…

     Hello Friends

   As part of our message on why hydrogen and fuel cells are essintial to a clean energy future we have added a new edited video from Jeremy Rifkins presentation at the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Conferance 2011 from Washington DC.  It provides a simple to understand clear explination of how important hydrogen is to our future here in America and in the EU the link to the video is…

    Building The Lobby- Starts With You

       For those of us involved in the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen industry one of the largest obstacles to wide spread adoption has been getting the public and politicians around the world aware of how fuel cells and hydrogen are essintial to providing energy and storage from alternative energy sources like solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and wave energy solutions.

    All these sources are variable meaning that when they are…

     Our web site E3 Wise.com was allowed to film at the Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Conference in Washington D.C. February 13-16.  We were able to film over twenty speakers presentations from all over the world on many different Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Programs and projects going on right now.

   Jeremy Rifkin author of the Hydrogen Economy and advisor to the European Unions Hydrogen Energy plan was one of the first speakers.  We are editing and posting these…

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…

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…

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…

Last week I talked about the price of converting fossil fueled vehicles into H2ICE cars. So, this week I thought I would follow up and talk about the price at the pump of…

Sure, there are many ways to store hydrogen including metal hydride containers which can be quite heavy, compressed hydrogen tanks which are

extremely insulated and built to withstand leakage and impact. Some of

these tanks are built out of metal alloys and others out of more…