News about the hydrogen industry http://www.thehydrogenjournal.com Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:08:50 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.thehydrogenjournal.com/images/hydrogenjournallogo.jpg http://www.thehydrogenjournal.com News about the hydrogen industry http://www.thehydrogenjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=395 The organisers of the 54th International Gas Balloon Race, to be held in the UK in September 2010, need to find a supply of hydrogen Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.thehydrogenjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=382 Italian hydrogen and fuel cell company Acta has won a joint first place in the Qualitec Technology award for its EL100 Hydrogen Generator, which can create hydrogen for use onboard boats. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.thehydrogenjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=383 Surendra Saxena, a professor of mechanical and materials engineering at Florida International University, has patented a new method of creating cheap hydrogen from coal, reacting the carbon dioxide (produced from coal combustion) with (inexpensively available) sodium hydroxide to make sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, hydrogen, which can all be sold. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.thehydrogenjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=384 UK fuel cell company Proton Power Systems has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UK electric vehicles company Smith, to work together to build a battery powered vehicle with a fuel cell range extender. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.thehydrogenjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=385 Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University, Peking University in Beijing; and the Chinese Academy of Science in Shanghai, are working together to develop a process using an electric field which can improve hydrogen storage. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.thehydrogenjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=386 Plans have been announced by the government of Wales (UK) to establish a series of hydrogen fuelling stations along the M4 motorway in Wales, as a 'Hydrogen Highway'. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.thehydrogenjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=387 Robins Air Force Base in Robins, Georgia (USA), has installed a hydrogen fueling station to power forklifts, according to an article in Macon, Georgia news service Macon.com. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.thehydrogenjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=388 Neah Power Systems of Washington, USA, has acquired CyVolt Energy Systems, a company which has technology to recharge lithium ion batteries on portable electronics using a fuel cell, powered by cartridges. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.thehydrogenjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=389 Honda has started operations for a solar powered hydrogen fuelling station, at the Los Angeles Center of Honda Research and Development Americas. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.thehydrogenjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=390 The UK's Technology Strategy Board, an organisation sponsored by the UK Government Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, has announced plans to invest £7m of UK government money in 15 hydrogen / fuel cell demonstrator projects. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00