Hydrogen retro fit and semi retro fit diesel motors

[Jim Blackwood]

Wonder if they've found a way to backflush it once it gets clogged with atmospheric pollutants?

Probably very expensive at this stage. Maybe in 20 years we'll have something affordable.

Jim

[chessie4905]

You reading this stuff in Popular Science equivalent on the net? Btw, do they still list those weather balloons for 15 bucks?lol

[luvrbus]

You reading this stuff in Popular Science equivalent on the net? Btw, do they still list those weather balloons for 15 bucks?lol

I never thought I would see electric cars passing me @75 mph either but here we are,it is happening some big players with lots of money,plus countries like India spending 2.3 billion to make it happen, they say it will be trillion dollar industry in 5 years even the Saudi's are in the game with their deep pockets.lol you may live long enough John to buy a hydrogen powered car     

[chessie4905]

Hell No. REMEMBER THE HINDENBURG! 🤔

[chessie4905]

Hell No. REMEMBER THE HINDENBURG! 🤔

[lvmci]

I'm sure all the negatives and hard to solve problems have been discussed and figured out by Scientists, as that is what they do. Battery development, compressing natural gas, delivery of gasoline to distant distribution points and getting vast amounts of electricity from dams and electrical facility, first DC then AC had to be worked out by engineers and scientists also...

[lvmci]

Reuters home
January 31, 20234:59 AM PST
Johnson Matthey partners with Plug Power to boost hydrogen tech
By Aby Jose Koilparambil
Opening of hydrogen filling station for trucks and cars in Berlin

Jan 31 (Reuters) - Johnson Matthey (JMAT.L) said on Tuesday it was partnering in hydrogen technology with U.S.-based Plug Power (PLUG.O) until at least 2030, as the British company hones its focus on its green hydrogen-related business.

Companies globally are increasing investments in green hydrogen, a zero-carbon fuel made by using renewable power from wind and solar to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, in their quest for energy which does not add to global warming.
Green hydrogen has been identified some as a potentially important way of decarbonising transport, by powering vehicles with only water as a by-product, as countries are looking to meet their net zero goals.

Johnson Matthey is a leading supplier of catalyst coated membranes (CCMs), which are a key component of fuel cells which use hydrogen fuel to generate electricity.

The London-based firm said it would supply a substantial portion of Plug's demand for components of fuel cells and electrolysers, to be used for green hydrogen production.

[lvmci]

Interesting,  doesn't seem to be up on the recent announcements...11 minute video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL1ukYK4_DY

[lvmci]

Researchers use sea water to produce green hydrogen at almost 100% efficiency

February 7, 2023 2 By TAMI HOOD
The Adelaide University team found a way to cleanly make H2 without requiring fresh water.

“We have split natural seawater into oxygen and hydrogen with nearly 100 percent efficiency, to produce green hydrogen by electrolysis, using a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyser,” explained Professor Shi-Zhang Qiao, project leader at the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide.
The researchers’ key to making green hydrogen from sea water was a Lewis acid coating on the catalyst.
Researchers worldwide have been – and are currently – testing a range of different materials for use as catalysts. The majority of the most efficient options tend to be rare precious metals such as platinum, ruthenium and iridium. Some of the less expensive, non-precious materials used for catalysts are transition metal oxide catalysts such as cobalt oxide with a chromium oxide coating.
The researchers made a breakthrough in the use of sea water for producing renewable H2 when they added a layer of Lewis acid, which is a specific acid type, such as chromium(III) oxide, Cr2O3) on a catalyst made of a transition metal oxide. Not only did this make it possible to use less expensive and more available materials, but the process also proved to be highly effective, according to the researchers.

“The performance of a commercial electrolyser with our catalysts running in seawater is close to the performance of platinum/iridium catalysts running in a feedstock of highly purified deionised water,” said Associate professor Yao Zheng of the University of Adelaide.

“We used seawater as a feedstock without the need for any pre-treatment processes like reverse osmosis desolation, purification, or alkalisation,” added Zheng in an explanation of how the sea water was not required treated so that it was usable to make green hydrogen, as would be the case using existing methods.

“Current electrolysers are operated with highly purified water electrolyte. Increased demand for hydrogen to partially or totally replace energy generated by fossil fuels will significantly increase scarcity of increasingly limited freshwater resources,” said Zheng.

The research was published in the Nature Energy journal.

[lvmci]

Honda and GM to Produce Systems for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars and Trucks

February 8, 2023 2 By BRET WILLIAMS
The systems will start being produced this year with gradual production increases over this decade.
A hydrogen fuel cell system co-developed by Honda Motor and General Motors (GM) will begin production this year and will gradually increase its numbers throughout this decade.

...I saw both the GM and Honda hydrogen combustion and hydrogen electric vehicle here in Las Vegas several years ago, Honda had a hydrogen fueling station in Las Vegas...

[luvrbus]

It has nothing to do with transportation engines but in CA  they are changing the largest power plant in LA over to green Hydrogen.They are starting by adding Hydrogen to the natural gas, then over to full Hydrogen. I bet a power bill for the price of changing is going to give people in LA sticker shock for power usage. I don't know what they are trying to accomplish, natural gas is a clean fuel and cheap.     

[Jim Blackwood]

So how does this work? The power plant burns hydrogen to produce power that is then used to produce hydrogen that is then used to produce power that...

Sounds like perpetual motion to me. Need to boost the efficiency of all the processes to something like 110% and then maybe it could work. How they plan to do that I haven't a clue.

Jim

[luvrbus]

So how does this work? The power plant burns hydrogen to produce power that is then used to produce hydrogen that is then used to produce power that...

Sounds like perpetual motion to me. Need to boost the efficiency of all the processes to something like 110% and then maybe it could work. How they plan to do that I haven't a clue.

Jim

They say it will made by wind power and solar.lol Az will sending our power to the nut cases,can you picture in your mind windmills in LA
 

[windtrader]

offshore. done many places around the world

[luvrbus]

offshore. done many places around the world

Windmills are not that stable, my cousin sent me a photo of windmills falling down in the OK panhandle around Guymon OK.I am sure if they are falling down in OK they are having problems around the world.Maybe Don Quixote has something to do with it he had a thing about windmills.