Archive for December, 2005


Hydrogen Engine Center expands

21 December 2005

Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc. acquired an existing 30,000 square foot building in Algona, Iowa as part of the expansion of its manufacturing facilities. hydrogen Engine Center manufactures the Oxx Power(TM) engine — a 4.9L hydrogen-ready, internal combustion engine that runs, with minor adjustments on gasoline, hydrogen, propane, biodiesel, or ethanol interchangeably.
Oxx Power(TM) has the same [...]

Hydrogen from hazardous waste

19 December 2005

ForeverGreen Enterprises Inc., a company headquartered in New Jersey, will be setting up a plant in Indiana that disposes of hazardous waste such as old paint and inks and produces hydrogen in the process. The company will charge a fee for the disposal and sell the hydrogen. The plant could solve two problems at once, [...]

Everyone is chasing hydrogen dollars

14 December 2005

With all of the hype surrounding hydrogen, hydrogen cars and fuel cells and government investment in hydrogen technology, is it any wonder everyone is whipping together a new hydrogen device of some sort in his garage? Inventors who know a little about how hydrogen is produced are tinkering with new ideas. Companies with expertise in [...]

Fairchild International proposes two hydrogen generation projects

13 December 2005

Fairchild International is planning two projects to generate hydrogen.
The first takes leftovers from the Alberta Tar Sands recovery process and uses them to generate hydrogen. The input is shredded rubber or petroleum coke and the output is hydrogen.
The second project, also in Alberta, Canada, uses wood waste products to generate hydrogen.
Interesting here is the combination [...]

GM convinced hydrogen cars are the future

12 December 2005

Larry Burns of GM, whom we’ve noted before, is all fired up about hydrogen cars and says GM will have a competitive car ready by 2010. That’s well in front of anyone else’s prediction but he cites the constant improvements in cost and efficiency achieved by GM already. One of his driving forces is the [...]