Thread: Saving the World with hydrogen just took a step closer

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The UK gets its first forecourt hydrogen refuelling station

CORDIS | European Commission

Launched by Shell at Cobham services on the M25 motorway, the new station was supplied by ATM as part of the EU funded HYFIVE project. It’s the first of three hydrogen stations to be opened by Shell in the UK in 2017.

Very small scale and they mentioned Co2 byproduct which is a issue. - Chemists have used microwaves to convert plastic bags, milk bottles and other supermarket packaging into a clean source of hydrogen.

Read more: Microwaving plastic waste can generate clean hydrogen | New Scientist

Australian company Lavo, today launches it's domestic hydrogen power wall. Supposedly 2 days of power capacity for a typical home. For ~$35k you can give Telsa the finger. Wonder how long it takes to charge to full capacity from a typical domestic solar set up?

Seems to have more energy conversion steps in the process than a lithium based battery solution, so likely to be less efficient buy very interesting nonetheless.

LAVO^™ acts as a solar sponge, integrating with rooftop solar to capture and store renewable energy for use when you need it.

• Creates Hydrogen from water
• Stores Hydrogen into LAVO™’s patented metal hydride
• Generates Electricity by converting hydrogen into power
• Delivers Power at a regulated voltage to your home

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Originally Posted by Ferret

Australian company Lavo, today launches it's domestic hydrogen power wall. Supposedly 2 days of power capacity for a typical home. For ~$35k you can give Telsa the finger. Wonder how long it takes to charge to full capacity from a typical domestic solar set up?

Seems to have more energy conversion steps in the process than a lithium based battery solution, so likely to be less efficient buy very interesting nonetheless.



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Concept is great. Note they have " partnered with world-leading industry providers, including Evergen, GHD, Design + Industry, Varley, Ampcontrol, Nedstack, and Enapter." The dates seem a little to good to be true? 2021 delivery?



PEM fuel Cell in it I wonder if its this one "FCS 7-XXL fuel cell stack can be used as building block for compact, yet resilient fuel cell power systems. The intended use for such micro fuel cell power systems are widespread and include telecommunication back up power, domestic CHP, mobile power systems and a variety of others."
Enapter are fuel cells as well so clear as mud


LAVO’s patented metal hydride absorbs hydrogen in a metal alloy to enable safe, long-term storage within a secure vessel. Designed to be portable and versatile, LAVO’s technology can be used for a diverse range of everyday applications. Scaling that up to a level like claimed or bigger would be a world wide game changer for transport and energy storage If they have got an stable, efficient and safe way


Watching with interest. Thanks for the post

(Fuel Cells) Coating costs reduced by half

Even in the pre-series stage, this carbon layer achieves a contact resistance similar to the gold coating. In other words, if the engineers further improve their process up to mass production, the coating will conduct electricity at least as well as the precious metal, possibly even better - at half the cost of coating. Fraunhofer IWS scientists are convinced that this will contribute to a new generation of more efficient fuel cells with higher electrical yield.

In addition, the innovative Fraunhofer technology also promises a higher production speed. The carbon layer is so extremely thin that the coating process itself takes only a few seconds. In addition, stack producers will in future be able to coat entire sheet metal rolls "non-stop" before forming. After all, the Fraunhofer coating is so durable that it can withstand the forming and welding process. "This enables a continuous manufacturing process and thus a much higher production throughput than ever before," explains Dr. Roch.Graphite instead of gold: Thin layers for better hydrogen cars - Fraunhofer IWS



So much happening even here -- South OZ BOC buying green hydrogen in South Australia rather trucking it from Victoria

Audi getting skin in the game with contract with one of my favorite Canadians

Norway- love them - the government of Norway, for all cruise ships and ferries plying their World Heritage fjords. Other governments in Europe and elsewhere are watching how the industry responds to Norway’s demands.

What’s the industry to do? Replacing diesel with zero-emission technology involves enormous research, development and testing.

"In collaboration with ABB, we are developing megawatt fuel cell systems with an initial focus on cruise ships."

Honeywell are rather big in the defense world Not at all surprised to see then take a bite "

VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA and SOUTHBOROUGH, MA, USA – Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP; TSX: BLDP) today announced that it has sold the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) business assets of its subsidiary located in Southborough, Massachusetts to Honeywell International (“Honeywell”; www.honeywell.com).
All employees of the UAV subsidiary will transition to Honeywell Aerospace."



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this is interesting.
A team of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has discovered a new method that makes it possible to transform electricity into hydrogen or chemical products solely using microwaves—without cables and without any type of contact with electrodes

Creates hydrogen or ...

Another use would be the direct generation of oxygen with microwaves, which opens a broad spectrum of new uses. "One specific use would be the direct production of oxygen with extra-terrestrial rocks, which could have a key role in the future exploration and colonization of the moon, Mars or other rock bodies of the solar system," concludes José Manuel Serra.

Researchers discover a new way to produce hydrogen using microwaves

A short history of the discovery
The team of researchers observed that when ionic materials were being treated with microwaves, the materials displayed unusual changes in their properties, especially their electronic conductivity, changes that did not happen when they were heated conventionally. "Our curiosity to understand these sudden changes in their electrical properties made us dig deeper, designing new experiments, new microwave reactors and to apply other analytical techniques," explains José Manuel Catalá.
The team from the ITACA and ITQ institutes verified that microwaves interact with these materials by accelerating the electrons and giving way to the release of molecules of oxygen from their structure (which is also called reduction). This change manifested itself specifically with sudden alterations to the conductivity at relatively low temperatures (approximately 300ºC). "This semi-balanced state is maintained while microwaves are applied, but tends to revert back by way of reoxygenation (reoxidation) when microwaves cease being applied. We soon realized the great practical potential of this discovery, especially at a juncture such as the one we are in today, of progressive decarbonisation, which is required to reach the goal of the European Union being climactically neutral in 2050, an economy with zero net greenhouse gas emissions," concludes José Manuel Serra.

A sleepy giant moving again?
The (US) Department of Energy is planning to invest $100 million over the next five years into research for hydrogen-powered heavy-duty trucks.The outcome could be the development of larger, more efficient and cost-effective electrolyzers that will use a variety of technologies to split hydrogen from water.The idea is to form two large partnerships that include DOE national laboratories, universities and private companies to help jump-start what has been a very slow-moving American approach to the "hydrogen economy."



Suspect the rate of change to swing even closer to this sector with the recent change in the US.


Add in a big miners with "Anglo says seven mines set for hydrogen mining truck fleets by 2030; rollout of 40 at Mogalakwena starts 2024" "At Mogalakwena, a full 40 truck rollout is planned to start in 2024. The trucks themselves will utilise 4 oz of platinum in their fuel cells (each will use eight Ballard FCveloCity^®-HD 100 kW modules)."Anglo says seven mines set for hydrogen mining truck fleets by 2030; rollout of 40 at Mogalakwena starts 2024 - International Mining

Hydrogen is and isn't the future

Hydrogen is and isn't the future

Surely hydrogen is the future of energy. Why else would the European Union, as part of its Green Deal, plan to shovel 470 billion euros (17 trillion baht) into infrastructure to electrolyse and use the stuff? Why else would China, Japan and South Korea be placing their own huge bets on the gas?

The enthusiasm about hydrogen has a simple reason: Whether it's used in a fuel cell or burned to create heat, the only "exhaust" it emits is innocently clean water. Therefore, wherever hydrogen replaces fossil fuels, it helps slow global warming. That explains the worldwide race to dominate the various niches of a market projected by some banks to be worth trillions of dollars by 2050.

Then again, perhaps this is just the latest of several hydrogen bubbles, destined to pop like all the others. A first one, inflated by a seminal essay from 1970, ballooned the following decade before going pfft in the 1980s. A second expanded and popped along with the tech bubble around 2000. Maybe hydrogen is the future and always will be.

Clean green hydrogen could power tractor revolution


Clean green hydrogen could power tractor revolution - ABC News

The proponents of a hydrogen plant in WA's Mid West say it could stimulate the commercial production of hydrogen-powered tractors.

Touted a clean-energy breakthrough, New Holland Agriculture released its first ever hydrogen-powered tractor in 2011, which was then in service on farms in Europe by 2012.