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4 April 2016 | SouthAfrica.info
South Africa's hydrogen fuel cell industry received a boost on 31 March with the unveiling of a prototype hydrogen fuel cell forklift and refuelling station at Impala Refining Services in Springs, east of Joburg.
A first for South Africa: a prototype hydrogen fuel cell forklift and refuelling station is unveiled at Impala Refining Services in Springs on 31 March 2016. (Image: Department of Science and Technology, Twitter)
Over the past three years, Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) has provided HySA Systems with funds of R6-million to enable the prototype development. Implats plans to use hydrogen fuel cell technology as its main source of energy for material handling and underground mining equipment.
Impala Refining Services is a unit of Implats, one of the world's foremost producers of platinum and associated platinum group metals. The refining services unit was created in July 1998 as a dedicated vehicle to house the toll refining and metal concentrate purchases built up by Implats.
Speaking at the event, Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor said fuel cell technologies had the potential to provide access to affordable, safe, clean and reliable energy, which was necessary for broad-based economic development and growth in the country.
"That's what we are here to make. A bold move. A forklift may appear to be a small move. But great industries have developed from small moves." -Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor
"While the fuel cell market is still in its infancy in South Africa, recent developments indicate a growing appetite for the technology," Pandor said...snip
MORE: http://www.southafrica.info/about/science/forklift-040416.htm
http://www.implats.co.za/
Apr 1, 2016:Thursday, the minister of the Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor unveiled the first prototype of a hydrogen fuel cell forklift and a refuelling station at Impala Platinum in Springs in the East of Johannesburg. The department of Science and Technology (through the HySA systems Centre of Competence at the University of the Western Cape) and Impala Refining Service joined forces in developing this prototype.
Mmboneni Muofhe is Deputy Director-General: Technology Innovation at the Department of Science and Technology, joins us from our Pretoria studios.
In Suid-Afrika, Waterstof is nommer een
Seeing Hydrogen Work Is Believing | A Tour of Blue Planet Research in Hawaii
Jan 8, 2016: Stan takes us on a tour of Blue Planet Research on the Big Island. Plus we'll see a great demonstration of hydrogen safety.
http://residentialhydrogenpower.com/2016/01/23/seeing-hydrogen-work-is-believing-blue-planet-research/
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Blue Planet Foundation
Henk Rogers Blue Planet Research Facility- Hydrogen is stored in propane tanks
Henk Rogers Vision
http://blueplanetfoundation.org/
Henk Rogers is a video game designer and entrepreneur. He is known for producing Japan's first major turn-based role-playing video game The Black Onyx, securing the rights to distribute Tetris on video game consoles where the game found popularity, and as the founder of The Tetris Company which licenses the Tetris trademark.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henk_Rogers
In Hawaii, H2 is #1
H2 Logic delivers ninth hydrogen fuelling station for Denmark
March 3, 2016: Today a new hydrogen fuelling station, delivered by H2 Logic, was inaugurated in Kolding. This narrows the driving distance to the nearest station in Hamburg, Germany to only 245km (150 miles) making cross-border driving on hydrogen even more comfortable. The station in Kolding is the third to open in Denmark during the past six months, and in total the ninth public accessible hydrogen station in 24/7 operation throughout Denmark – underlining the status as the world’s first countrywide hydrogen station network.
H2Station® hydrogen fueling station in Kolding, Denmark
The hydrogen station in Kolding will be used by a fleet of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles from Hyundai delivered to various local users, among others the City of Kolding.
The Kolding station is operated by Danish Hydrogen Fuel A/S (DHF), a joint-venture between the oil company OK, gas company Strandmøllen and H2 Logic. DHF targets to build up to five hydrogen fuelling stations in Denmark, where the Kolding station is the third in operation.
Building a H2Logic hydrogen refueling station in 48 hours (time-lapse)
The station is placed at a conventional fuelling station operated by OK and located right next to the major highway connecting the southern part of Denmark with Germany.
Hydrogen for the Kolding station is delivered from a central electrolyser plant operated by Strandmøllen and based on technology from the H2 Logic sister company NEL-Hydrogen. The entire Danish hydrogen station network is based entirely on hydrogen produced from electrolysis and electricity procured with CO2 certificates. This ensures a 100% sustainable and zero emission hydrogen supply – the highest share in the world for an entire station network...snip
http://h2logic.com/h2-logic-delivers-ninth-hydrogen-fuelling-station-for-denmark/
Related: NEL ASA: Developing the world´s largest factory for hydrogen refuelling stations
Mon, Apr 04
( Oslo, 4 April 2016) H2 Logic A/S (H2 Logic), a subsidiary of NEL ASA, has entered into a contract for the purchase of a facility in Herning, Denmark for the development of a new large-scale production plant for hydrogen refuelling stations. The factory will have an annual capacity to manufacture hydrogen refuelling stations sufficient to support 200 000 new Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEV) annually...more
http://news.cision.com/nel-asa/r/nel-asa--developing-the-world-s-largest-factory-for-hydrogen-refuelling-stations,c9948138
http://www.nel-hydrogen.com/
Map of Hydrogen Stations in Denmark
(Red/Yellow-Planned)
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zd5j6rGwcwxg.kMbhP8bw1yQA&hl=en
I Danmark, Brint er nummer et
Today, the US will spend ~$200 Million dollars on bombing, invading and "regime change" (Coup d'etat) 8,000 miles away. Not a single citizen outside the 1% will ever benefit from this rip-off- the biggest rip-off in history. How many hydrogen stations could $200 million dollars build? The US can build a Compressed Natural Gas station in Afghanistan for $500,000 each. Do the math. http://costofwar.com
Line of Duty Series 3 just started
The Torygraph's blurb from "What's on TV Tonight"
Trying to second-guess Jed Mercurio’s crime thriller is a dangerous game. After last week’s surprise reappearance (no spoilers here), old wounds are reopened. Tense and well scripted, this is at least as good as the previous two series.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/02/10/whats-on-tv-tonight/
LOD Series 2 was even better than 1. Keeley Hawes (Spooks) tore up the screen.
Marcella starts tomorrow- we somehow got a pre-release and the premier was excellent. Anna Friel gets off to a smashing start.
ITV, 9.00pm
A Scandi-style crime drama set here in the UK with a high-calibre cast? Count us in. This promising eight-part whodunit is written by Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of The Bridge, and stars Anna Friel as a former detective who rejoins the police after the breakdown of her marriage.
Marcella Blackland is heartbroken when husband Jason (Nicholas Pinnock) suddenly leaves, claiming he no longer loves her. She’s drawn back to her job on the Met’s murder squad which she gave up a decade previously. A serial murderer nicknamed “the Grove Park Killer”, her last case before she left to start a family, seems to have resurfaced. Meanwhile, what’s the connection to a family construction firm and a dating app called Sinnr.
A strong supporting cast includes Downton Abbey’s Laura Carmichael, Sinead Cusack, Patrick Baladi and Harry Lloyd. Friel does her best impression of The Killing’s Sarah Lund, and there are echoes of Homeland, Happy Valley and River in Marcella’s portrayal of a grieving, troubled central character. This is admirably ambitious, multi-layered Nordic noir with a twisting narrative – but no subtitles. MH
And for Hustle fans- Adrian Lester returns TONIGHT! in
Undercover
BBC One, 9.00pm
Adrian Lester and Sophie Okonedo star in this tense new drama, written by Peter Moffat, the man behind Criminal Justice. High-flying lawyer Maya (Okonedo) is offered the role of Director of Public Prosecutions, a position which could allow her to pursue justice for her murdered friend Michael Antwi. What Maya doesn’t know is that her husband (Lester) was undercover when they first met 20 years ago. Could his hidden past destroy the life they have built together? AB
Hope it's good (...appears to be set in the US...hmmm...)- Lester has been away far too long
And- Doctor Foster starring Suranne Jones (Scott and Bailey) is coming back sometime later this year. The first series is excellent.
Good British TV Blog:
http://www.thecustardtv.com/
Custard & Biscuits anyone?
How Wall Street's Favorite Solar Company Spent Itself to the Brink
Brian Eckhouse | Bloomberg Tech | March 31, 2016
Just nine months ago, SunEdison Inc. was Wall Street’s favorite clean-energy company. It sopped up every dollar it could come by to finance a breathtaking buying binge of wind and solar farms, and in the process became the world’s largest renewable-energy company.
Now, SunEdison is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy protection, its stock trading at 55 cents at 3:37 p.m. in New York on Thursday. The company’s fall is largely its own doing, the almost inevitable result of an ascent that was built on financial engineering and cheap debt. But it had plenty of enablers in the form of bankers, who pocketed fees with each acquisition, and investors, who reaped attractive dividends in a protracted stretch of low interest rates.
Even “smart, thoughtful and skeptical hedge funds” bought SunEdison’s story, said Gordon Johnson, an analyst at Axiom Capital Management Inc. “It’s not just management’s fault, it’s not just their hubris. They just began to drink their own Kool-Aid.”..snip
...But it was on that day that SunEdison -- after a 19-month, $2.6 billion spending spree -- announced that it would pay a 52 percent premium for Vivint Solar Inc. Not only would that be SunEdison’s most expensive acquisition, valued then at $2.2 billion, it also sent the company in a different direction. While SunEdison had become known for selling directly to utilities, Vivint offers rooftop solar systems to homeowners...snip
Full Article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-30/the-2-6-billion-buying-binge-that-felled-solar-giant-sunedison
Interesting Sun Edison history
The establishment of Monsanto Electronic Materials Company (MEMC), a silicon wafer–manufacturing division to serve the emerging electronics industry, was announced on August 6, 1959, as an arm of the U.S.-based multinational corporation Monsanto.[5] In February 1960 MEMC started production of 19mm silicon ingots at its location in St. Peters, Missouri, 30 miles west of Monsanto's headquarters in St. Louis.[6] As one of the first companies to produce semiconductor wafers, MEMC was a pioneer in the field, and some of its innovations became industry standards into the 21st century.[7] MEMC used the Czochralski process (CZ process) of silicon crystal production,[8] and developed the Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process of wafer finishing.[7][9][10] In 1966 MEMC installed its first reactors for the production of epitaxial wafers,[11][12] and developed zero-dislocation crystal growing, which made large-diameter silicon crystals possible..
Name change
On May 30, 2013, MEMC Electronic Materials changed its name to SunEdison, Inc., and also changed its stock-market ticker from "WFR" to "SUNE", reflecting the company's focus on solar energy.[2][85] In May 2014, SunEdison formally separated its electronics-wafer business from its solar-wafer and solar-energy business. SunEdison Semiconductor, Ltd. spun off in an IPO on the NASDAQ under the ticker "SEMI", with SunEdison, Inc. maintaining a majority stake as the largest shareholder.[86] The IPO generated $94 million, used to fund the company's growth...snip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunEdison
US Taxpayers built this $43 Million Dollar Gas Station in Afghanistan
Nov 2, 2015: United States Inspector General is investigating what happened and why so much money was wasted.
How the Pentagon spent $43 million on a single gas station
November 2, 2015, WaPo
John Sopko’s team of investigators has uncovered all kinds of wasteful spending in Afghanistan through its work as a U.S. government watchdog. Now the group has uncovered a $43 million gas station, which Sopko calls “gratuitous and extreme”—and possibly criminal.
In a scathing report, Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, wrote that a similar compressed natural gas station in Pakistan cost $500,000, or about $306,000 at current exchange rates, meaning the Afghanistan station cost 140 times as much.
He wrote that the Pentagon’s program had “several troubling aspects,” including $30 million in overhead costs, and the lack of a feasibility study before the project began...
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/11/02/how-the-pentagon-spent-43-million-on-a-single-gas-station/
http://costofwar.com
The house that provides its own energy
Swissinfo.ch Mar 28, 2016
Construction is nearly complete on an innovative, multi-family house in canton Zurich that can collect and store enough solar power to fulfil the energy needs of its tenants.
The project has been aptly named “The House of the Future”, and it is claimed to be the world’s first energy self-sufficient apartment block. The dwelling is being built in Brütten, and by springtime it will be ready to house nine families...snip
...The engineering company behind the project estimates that only one hour of sunlight will be sufficient to power the entire building for 24 hours.
To ensure that surplus energy is available during bad weather days, a power-to-gas plant, which converts solar energy into hydrogen, has been integrated into the house. When insufficient energy is produced from sunlight alone, a fuel cell will use the hydrogen to generate the needed electricity.
Read More: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multimedia/sustainable-living_the-house-that-provides-its-own-energy/41918896
In der Schweiz Wasserstoff ist #1
While you’re charging your EV, BMW is preparing for a hydrogen future
Digital Trends | Ronan Glon | March 27, 2016
Digital Trends sat down with Merten Jung, BMW’s head of fuel cell development, to get insight on where the technology stands today, what will change in the coming years, and when we can expect to see a hydrogen-powered car in a BMW showroom.
Digital Trends: BMW sells the all-electric i3 and several plug-in hybrid models. Why are you investing in fuel cell technology?
Merten Jung: Because a fuel cell drivetrain combines zero-emissions mobility with the fast refueling time that’s needed for long-distance driving. Moving forward, electric vehicles will have longer ranges thanks to advances in battery technology, but the refueling time won’t be competitive with that of a hydrogen-powered model. It takes about three to five minutes to top up a hydrogen tank, and then you’re set to go. We expect that battery-electric vehicles and fuel cell-electric vehicles will co-exist in the future, and plug-in hybrids are a simply a temporary solution until we get to that point.
DT: The biggest issue currently facing fuel cell vehicles is arguably the lack of an infrastructure. How will you overcome that?
There are initiatives in various countries to set up an infrastructure. In Germany, the government has plans to install 100 hydrogen stations by 2018, which is sufficient to set up an initial network, and there will be up to 400 additional stations by 2023; the final number will depend on how many hydrogen-powered vehicles are on the road by then. The advantage is that you can convert existing gas stations to hydrogen stations, so you can build the network step-by-step.
---snip---
Which body style is best suited to receive a hydrogen drivetrain?
The bigger ones. The cost and the weight of an EV mainly depend on the size of the battery; if you have a small battery, electric makes more sense than hydrogen. The break-even point is 300-400 kilometers (186-248 miles). Beyond that, hydrogen makes more sense because you only need to make the tank larger. It’s not rocket science, and it’s not very costly. The cost is in the fuel cell itself.
With an electric vehicle, if you want to go beyond 300-400 kilometers you need to make the battery pack bigger, heavier, and more expensive, and you’ll reach a certain point where it won’t make sense anymore. The breakover point is pretty set in stone, too, because we’ll be making a lot of progress in both battery technology and hydrogen drivetrains over the coming years...snip more:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/bmw-is-preparing-for-a-hydrogen-future/
Drive Mag: BMW Fuel Cell Insights | an Interview with Merten Jung
Mar 15, 2016: In Geneva, we spoke to Mr. Merten Jung, Head of BMW's Fuel Cell Development Team, about the future of alternative fuels, and especially hydrogen, at BMW.
In Deutschland - H2 is #1
You may want to contact this person as well
Mike Strizki was the subject of a 2008 Scientific American article called
Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever
A New Jersey resident generates and stores all the power he needs with solar panels and hydrogen
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-house/
He's done the work, and his hydrogen house is still working like it did in 2008, but the entire system is cheaper because Solar panels and electrolyzers are cheaper. He stores hydrogen in old propane tanks.
His website: http://hydrogenhouseproject.org/
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