Deadline for Request for Information for H-Prize extended to May 20

The United States Department of Energy Fuel Cell Technologies Program has extended the deadline for the Request for Information for topics and criteria for a potential second Hydrogen Prize competition. The Request for Information, originally released on March 20, 2012, is addressed to industry groups related to the technology development areas of production, distribution and utilization. The original deadline was April 20, 2012. The extension is until May 31, 2012.

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Catalyst developed to enable liquid hydrogen storage

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new catalyst that can be tapped so that hydrogen can be stored and transported in its liquid form. The Brookhaven scientists, using iridium metal complexes, developed a catalyst that can effectively trigger the storage and release of hydrogen gas from liquid formic acid, a naturally occurring acid used as a preservative and antibacterial agent.

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California company to produce hydrogen using wastewater, sunlight

A California-based company is developing the world’s first nanotechnology-based process for producing hydrogen and natural gas using sunlight. Conventional hydrogen technology splits water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen, an expensive process. HyperSolar, which has been developing a technology to produce renewable hydrogen and natural gas using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide, it has come up with a process of producing hydrogen by making nanoparticles function as one-way machines for detoxifying wastewater. This results in clean water, which is turned into hydrogen in the presence of sunlight.

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Mobile operator to use hydrogen fuel backup system

A subsidiary of Consistel, the Singapore-based wireless network solutions provider, has just won a contract to provide hydrogen fuel cell power backup systems for a major telecom operator in Indonesia.

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Scientists learn hydrogen-producing algae’s weak spot

Scientists at the University of Oxford have discovered how oxygen stops green algae from producing hydrogen, which could give rise to working “solar H2-farms” where micro-organisms could be harnessed to produce hydrogen fuel from sunlight and water

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UK to award 7.2 million pounds to winning hydrogen and fuel cell technologies

Up to £7.2 million will be awarded by the UK government through a competition on the development of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) announced yesterday. Interested companies may submit their bids to the Technology

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Chicken feathers to be used for hydrogen storage

Scientists at the University of Delaware have developed a hydrogen storage method using chicken feathers. Carbonized chicken feather fibers can hold vast amounts of hydrogen and do it at a far lower cost than other methods currently available.

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Baden-Württemberg opens first public H2 filling station

Austrian oil and gas giant OMV Aktiengesellschaft and its German partners, the Linde Group and Daimler AG, have officially opened the first publicly-accessible hydrogen filling station in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Hydrogen fuel company GreenChek to enter German and Chinese market

American hydrogen energy technology company GreenChek Technologies Inc. announced recently that it will be entering the German market during the first quarter of 2010 with distribution partner TESEL and into the Chinese market with Tianjin Kerlong.

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5G Wireless/ Clean Energy and Power partners with Applied Hadronics to develop mobile hydrogen fuel refinery

5G Wireless Communications, which is in the process of renaming itself Clean Energy and Power, signed a strategic alliance agreement with Applied Hadronics to develop a mobile hydrogen-based fuel refinery to be powered by wind or solar power.

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