Hydrogen retro fit and semi retro fit diesel motors

[lvmci]

BP throws support behind industry-disrupting green hydrogen tech
August 17, 2023 0 By JOHN MAX
BP ventures is Advanced Ioncis' lead investor in a $12.5 million Series A financing.
BP ventures' (bp's venture capital arm) investment in the green hydrogen start-up will accelerate the growth and deployment of Advanced Ionics' low-cost Symbion™ electrolyzer technology for heavy industry.

The new funding will help give green H2 use in heavy industry a boost.
In addition to bp ventures, other investors that contributed to Advanced Ionics $12.5 million Series A Financing include Clean Energy Ventures, GVP Climate, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

The funding will be used to expand and facilitate the initial deployment of Advanced Ionics' Symbion™ water vapor electrolyzer technology – a new category of hydrogen electrolyzers highly valuable for expanding green hydrogen production – for heavy industry.

[windtrader]

I think cars are going electric, a done deal. Where the big win in hydrogen is replacing coal fired power plants. More investments needed here and surely with enough political pressure, industry will get the push to transition. Some are against government involvement but incentives can encourage and speed the switch.

[lvmci]

Clark County. Las Vegas metropolitain RTC Introduces Hydrogen-Powered Bus

Transportation officials celebrated Southern Nevada's first hydrogen-powered buses by toasting with glasses of water — the engines' only emission — from the vehicles' tailpipes.

The two buses, built by New Flyer, are equipped with tanks of hydrogen and an electric fuel cell. The cell generates power through a reaction between the hydrogen and oxygen that produces water vapor as its only byproduct.

Regional Transportation Commission CEO M.J. Maynard said the vehicles were the first of 16 the commission plans to purchase by 2025 with the help of $18 million in federal funding. The first two buses were largely funded via a $3.8 million Low or No Emission Grant from the Department of Transportation that covered 95% of the cost of equipment, infrastructure and training for the new technology, officials said.

"The grant funding is there, so the goal is to ensure that our entire fleet is either electric or hydrogen," Maynard said. "The biggest challenge right now is ... getting the buses, because everybody wants to do it."

Maynard said the commission started investigating the switch to hydrogen fuel cell buses about three years ago and planned to replace all of its roughly 400 large buses with either electric or hydrogen buses by 2050.
One hydrogen-powered bus costs about $1.2 million; electric buses cost about $1 million, she said.
"Buying the bus is the easy part. It's really looking for those federal grant opportunities for the needed infrastructure," she said.

Paul Soubry, CEO of New Flyer, said the fuel cell and its cooling system add less weight to a bus' structure than electric batteries do. The buses can be refueled with hydrogen in about seven minutes, he said.

[windtrader]

It's happening but even fleet rollouts struggle with infrastructure. EV gets the win for cars due to the head start and the high costs and complexity of hydrogen fueling.

[lvmci]

Hydrogen Fuel News
New interagency hydrogen task force launched by Biden-Harris Administration
August 24, 2023 2 By JOHN MAX
The goal is to build a clean hydrogen economy.
The Biden-Harris Administration has launched an interagency hydrogen task force under which federal agencies will coordinate hydrogen-related efforts across various areas, including improved outreach with tribal communities and other communities historically underserved.

The task force is designed to advance the administration's "whole of government" clean H2 approach.
The Biden-Harris Administration has thrown a lot of support behind clean hydrogen, which is expected to play a vital role in the U.S.' transition to a decarbonized energy system. And will be especially helpful to industrial, chemical processes, heavy transportation and other high-polluting sectors that are difficult to decarbonize.

The hydrogen task force, which was announced during a recent webinar by White House deputy national climate advisor, Mary Frances Repko, will be co-chaired by Repko and deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), David Turk.

[lvmci]

Hydrogen fuel news
The world's cheapest green hydrogen will likely come from a NewHydrogen innovation
August 25, 2023 9 By ERIN KILGORE
Article Discusses:
NewHydrogen, Inc. partners with UC Santa Barbara for green hydrogen research.
Thermochemical approach used, employing heat instead of electricity.
The method could lower costs compared to traditional electrolysis methods.
The technology involves using molten liquids in a single redox chemical loop.
The system, named NewHydrogen ThermoLoop™, aims for high efficiency and low temperatures.
The company believes the technology could disrupt the hydrogen industry by reducing production costs significantly.
The California company is improving H2 production efficiency with its disruptive tech.
NewHydrogen, Inc. (OTC: NEWH) announced it has entered a research agreement with University of California, Santa Barbara and is working with a team of UC Santa Barbara experts to develop a more efficient way to split water into cheap green hydrogen using a thermochemical approach.

[freds]

Everyone talks about producing hydrogen. But they would have to be the next Exon or BP to do it at anywhere near affordable.

Screw that let's go electric and mosey around 100-200 miles per day!!!

[luvrbus]

Everyone talks about producing hydrogen. But they would have to be the next Exon or BP to do it at anywhere near affordable.

Screw that let's go electric and mosey around 100-200 miles per day!!!

It is going to take electricity to produce hydrogen where is that going to come from on a grid that cannot keep up with current demands,we can park all the EV's huh   

[Jim Blackwood]

The perpetual motion guys have been trying for centuries to split water cheaper than the power it produces when recombined. Ain't gonna happen. I don't give a weasel's patootie what method you use. Catalyst, heat, lightning, microwave, solar flares, it just doesn't matter. The best that can ever be hoped for it to approach parity but they are never going to get over that physics hump. Anybody saying they can is just promoting snake oil.

It would make more sense to claim they were pulling power out of another dimension, and be just about as believable.

Jim

[lvmci]

Hydrogen fuel  news
Hyzon's 1st Liquid Hydrogen Electric Truck Wows in Demo
September 4, 2023 4 By ERIN KILGORE
The demo was carried out with Performance Food Group and Chart Industries.
Hyzon Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: HYZN), Performance Food Group, Inc. (NYSE: PFGC) and Chart Industries, Inc. (NYSE: GTLS) together announced that the first commercial run of Hyzon's liquid hydrogen fuel cell electric truck (LH2 FCEV) was successfully completed, demonstrating viability of liquid H2 for commercial trucking applications and confirming diesel-comparable range potential.
The truck traveled over 540 miles on a 16-hour continuous run.
Hyzon Motor's commercial demo of its liquid hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle began its run in Temple, Texas and completed deliveries to eight Performance Food Group (PFG) customers near Dallas, Texas.

The liquid H2 truck traveled more than 540 miles in summer temperatures that climbed over 100-degrees Fahrenheit. Its continuous run took about 16 hours and was further than the distance from Sacrament to San Diego, California. The successful completion of the demo showed the viability of on-board liquid H2 to fuel long-distance, zero-emissions transport.

[freds]

Ok they drove at 34 MPH in order to make the distance?

[luvrbus]

The hours and milage doesn't add up to me  from Temple to Dallas is a hour and a half about 125 miles, drove that route many times.PFC is supplier to restaurants they make a lot of stops to unload 34 mph average doesn't sound all that bad

[dtcerrato]

It was a delivery truck making multiple stops.

[luvrbus]

It was a delivery truck making multiple stops.

That what they do Dan deliver food to restaurants, Hydrogen will be here long before electric buses and trucks get to be dependable,Musk trucks cannot even deliver potato chips for Frito/Lay without problems ,took us years to get rid of the electric trolleys and now we are going back

[windtrader]

took us years to get rid of the electric trolleys and now we are going back

The most extreme wrong turn in transportation and energy policy was the nearly instant abandoning and destruction of the mass transit systems. It really pains me to see how such a vast and non-replaceable infrastructure including right of ways along the most beneficial routes just vaporized when ICE bloomed onto the scene. Thanks Henry Ford for bring cars to the masses. not