 Aloha and welcome to stand energy man here on think tech Hawaii. I'm Walter crank tight filling in for stand today Who's vacationing or something stupid? Somewhere in Hawaii. I know he's around someplace But he asked me to fill in for him here from Paris Because there's a lot of French stories in today's world news And he says he can't speak much French and I'm kind of torqued at him because I don't speak any French So anyway, let's get cranky with the stories here The first story actually I got directly from a friend of mine And it says that the Indian app Indiana Department of Transportation is getting ready to set up a Self-charging highway for electric cars in other words You know how you can take your cell phone and you can put it on a little pad and you don't have to plug anything in It just charges right there on that little charger Well a company in Germany has developed a magnetic type of charging system that works on electric cars And they're saying they're going to be able to in Indiana check the stuff out They're going to build a section of highway and they're going to run these electric cars over this highway and charge them really I Don't I don't know what to say. I mean if you can do that Why don't you just take all the batteries out of the electric cars and put electric in all the highways and Just run them all and save all the batteries probably be a lot more reliable like old street cars and stuff But then again, I know somebody is going to get drunk and take a pee on the electric highway Zap himself to the state I'm not sure this is a great idea, but anyway We'll check out Indiana and see how they do because they're they're making it happen If you want more on the story, you can you can check them out. I guess if they in IND OT that's their Department of Transportation in Indiana this next story comes directly from AC transit they public they're publishing a groundbreaking Zero-emission transit bus technology analysis. They call it is that BTA Now this is actually a really really great piece of work because for those of you that aren't aware AC transit has probably arguably more experience in electric buses and and fuel cell buses than probably any other bus company around the US for sure Probably in the world and the nice thing is they do regular buses too. So they've been compiling data for decades on gasoline buses diesel buses fuel cell buses Natural gas powered buses electric buses and they're compiling all this data putting it into a great guide So that if you're a city planner and you want to know the pluses and minuses of electric versus fuel cell fuel cell Versus natural gas natural gas versus diesel It's all in one place and you can check it out. So go to WWW AC transit all one word dot org and check them out. It's a great great story and probably a great piece of Data to place to find data I got this story directly from the company called Jen cells is Jen snow energy successfully deploys its revolutionary a Five off-grid solution for satisfactory 24-7 powering of emergency communication systems in Iceland Iceland I'd been to Iceland The weather sucks in Iceland it can be 65 and clear one minute and ten minutes later You got snow blowing sideways and it's 20 miles 20 degrees and 45 miles an hour wind It's the craziest place on the planet to test anything outdoors and they've tested their system According to this thing for two months straight and it's been flawless. So I think Jen cell might be on this something I mean we use fuel cells a lot for data Centers and also for cell tower backup power But this is a real test and if you want to read more about it go check out Jen cell and Check out that system. I bet it's gonna be a winner Anyway, next story and this is really a big one. Everybody's watching the Olympics from Tokyo Well, that's because last year when they're supposed to have the Olympics. Everybody was bottled up with COVID and It was supposed to be the year that they Showcase hydrogen technology. Well, they're doing the Olympics and they're showcasing hydrogen technology as we speak They've set up some hydrogen Cities or or communities for the Olympic athletes to stand and the hydrogen is not only providing the Electricity and the transportation. It's also be fueling the athletes buses. There's water heaters In the cafeteria and their heat and their dormitories air conditioning training facilities and After the games the underground pipes will take the hydrogen from a production station to Residential blocks in the area around the Olympic villages. So they're really Demonstrating the full spectrum of hydrogen and Japan during the Olympics So keep a close eye on that somebody even told me the high the torch Olympic torch was hydrogen I'm not sure if they actually pulled that off Another paper that's being put out another good research paper for folks doing some heavy research for communities This is a position paper called heavy-duty vehicles Charging and refueling infrastructure requirements and it's put out by the European Association of Automobile Manufacturers ACEA and It's an interactive map showing a number of specific hydrogen truck stations needed for each member state By 2025 and then 2030 and Europe has a fairly aggressive Decarbonizing goal set of goals and this fits right in there with it It says in addition to the target of around 300 trucks suitable hydrogen refueling stations by 2025 It's going to have at least 1,000 million in 2030 and that's the goal they've set more over one hydrogen refueling site should be available every 200 kilometers on the 10 t highway system and That will be in by 2030 a Hydrogen refueling station for trucks should have a minimum daily capacity of at least six tons of hydrogen Hydrogen is 14 times lighter than air. So imagine what six tons of hydrogen looks like in volume With at least two dispensers per station. Do you want to look up that more on that story? You can look at www a a dot auto publications The next story is from for Honda lovers Honda is ready for a quicker shift to all electrified lineup says their CEO The good news is they're still focusing on fuel cells. The bad news is Their only production car the clarity is being cancelled this year And they're going to keep working with General Motors who they've been working with a lot on fuel cells and General Motors is actually stepping way out With the military and everybody else on fuel cell So Honda and Jam will be working together on fuel cells And I'm only to bet that both of them are going to come out with some pretty slick vehicles probably by about 2025 The car companies are really good about keeping secrets until right before they release them and then boom They hit the market. So I expect that's going to be happening pretty soon They've definitely Honda has definitely made a commitment to stay with fuel cells and if you want to read more about that story You can check with Asia Nikkei and I kkei Com for those of you that don't know Nikkei is Japanese for the stock market All right next story repurposing existing gas infrastructure to pure hydrogen Acer finds divergent visions of that future The whole story can be found at www a c e r Europa dot e u slash events now this story is kind of interesting because I'm going to expand on the whole topic of gas hydrogen gas in Natural gas pipelines This is kind of a trend going on even here in Hawaii. We had to go at this early on and they're still looking at it But here's my take on it Walter crown crank type would not lie to you a lot of Nations still want to try and use natural gas and stretch it as long as they can No one more so than the companies that make gas turbines to make energy to make electricity So they they thought it was smooth sailing to go natural gas is going to be cheap it's going to be easy and then all of a sudden everybody in the world started going no carbon no carbon no carbon and Now they're panicking. So they're trying to squeeze hydrogen into natural gas with an end game of Making their turbines run a natural gas But there's a couple problems with this a lot of the hydrogen pipes and Infrastructure have been or natural gas infrastructure has been around for decades and decades and decades and you just can't put hydrogen into natural gas pipelines Because of embrittlement leaks Hydrogen is a very small atom that leaks out of everything what may hold tight with natural gas is probably going to leak like a sieve with hydrogen There's a lot of issues with getting to pure hydrogen in those pipelines So that's one thing the other thing is Why would you take very expensive hydrogen that you're making with electrolysis or whatever and Burn it in a turbine That's only 34 or 35 percent efficient when you can put it in a fuel cell and it's 60 percent efficient It's a general rule if you're going to burn natural gas hydrogen fuel oil If you're going to burn it in an engine or a boiler or anything You better have some extra use for the extra heat and other things that come off of that turbine or that engine Because if you're just burning it, you're wasting it You don't have to burn hydrogen to get the full effect of getting electricity from it put it in a fuel cell So all the stories that I hear about we're trying to put hydrogen natural gas pipelines. It's great for moving it around the country It's great for helping the transportation sector and Avoiding transportation cost so you don't have to truck this hydrogen all over as liquid hydrogen or ammonia or anything Yeah, you can move it around that way, but when you start talking about using it to replace natural gas for other things and People are going to say well, we can't smell hydrogen you have to put some odorizer in it Well, if you put the same odorizer that they use in natural gas so you can smell it It's got sulfur in it sulfur kills fuel cells So it's it's a non starter for fuel cells. So anyway, if you want to learn more about that story Acer Europa will tell you all about it next story Ballard receives an order for fuel cell modules To power the trial operation of a Siemens Mirko Plus H train. This is a great story because I think a fuel cell is gonna It's going to prove to be really great in all transportation sectors including trains Diesel electric trains are actually locomotives are pretty prevalent around the world and I can see hydrogen easily replacing diesel generators in In these electric trains. So it's a fairly easy conversion But there is one thing that I hope they're thinking about If you've listened to stand the energy man much He says when it comes to transportation, it's all about weight In other words, you want to make your transportation system as light as possible. You're not moving around a bunch of weight The one exception probably would be trains if your locomotive doesn't weigh a boatload It doesn't get any attractions on the wheels to pull a mile worth of You know freight behind it You've got to have enough weight in the locomotive So maybe hydrogen you have to put a whole lot of lead weight on those locomotives So they can get traction on their tracks When you take off all of the fuel that they're burning and get rid of all that weight But it'll be much cleaner and it'll be much better for the environment Next article five lessons to learn on hydrogen as ship fuel. There's a this is another great resource document a Consortium of 26 leading companies and associations as published a handbook for hydrogen fuel vehicles or vessels Excuse me to shed light on the most pressing issues surrounding hydrogen as ship fuel So you can find the whole story in www.dnv.com Expert story slash expert dash story and I think it'd be a great thing if you're interested in maritime because again I think it's going to be great when we get hydrogen in vessels They said phase one is complete in that study and They're looking to publish a handbook which they intend to keep on updating constantly First hydrogen homes to open to the public this story comes out of the UK So if you want to follow up its www Northern gas networks.co.uk. That's all one word northern gas networks so anyway over in the UK, so sorry to To Mike Stritsky, but they have a hydrogen house project in the UK as well and that hydrogen house project They're going to have people living in these houses and they're going to start rotating hydrogen equipment through the houses so people can Use them and give the manufacturers feedback as they get closer and closer to full-scale production So it's a great way to give feedback to the customers and great way to promote hydrogen as well and for those of you that don't know hydrogen as a source of fuel for gas burners It is pretty nice because it's it gives you a really Focused heat it doesn't radiate a whole lot of heat because there's no carbon in it So your kitchen stays a little cooler. It just focuses the heat right where you need it But you do have to change the burners a little bit You don't want to mix your oxygen with your hydrogen on the way to the burner You don't want the hydrogen to go straight to the burner come out of the the burner cluster and mix with oxygen outside not inside your fuel lines But it's a great way to cook Let me see chevron and Cummings announced strategic collaboration on Hydrogen and this story comes out of WWW Cummings Cummings.com slash news and for those of you that have a shorter memory than Walter Frank tight Cummings bought out Hydrogenics out of Canada a major fuel cell manufacturer about two years ago And they have been working hard a diesel company has been working really hard In a special division on hydrogen fuel cell technology So this memorandum of understanding provides a framework for chevron and Cummings diesel to initially collaborate on four main objectives advancing public policy that promotes hydrogen as a decarbonizing solution for the transportation industry Building a market demand for commercial vehicles and industrial applications powered by hydrogen Developing infrastructure to support the use of hydrogen for industry and fuel cell vehicles and Finally, it's exploring opportunities to leverage Cummings electrolyzer technology and fuel cell technologies at one or more chevron domestic refineries So congratulations for chevron and Cummings getting together on that Apex clean energy and my plug power Plug power partner on largest green hydrogen power purchase agreement in the United States Which plug power stock was go up as much as I see them in the news. I mean they they should be like Gangbusters right now. Anyway, if you want to read more on this story, you can go to www.ir Dot plug PLUG POWER dot com press releases So this is out of their website, but plug power is They they're partnering with South Korea. They're partnering with people in Europe They're doing some great great things and that's just another example another big name in the news is Nikola motors Speaking of stock if you want to get in on the ground floor Their stock is around 14 bucks a share right now. It's been as high as 120 or so in the last year And it dropped But I'm telling you they're like plug power They're just they keep on doing stuff and it's showing up in my news news feeds and everything and at some point Assuming the stock market stays on track. I think they're gonna really grow It says Nikola announces an expansion of its current Nikola dealer sales and service network With an additional five dealers covering key territories here in the US. So if you want to read more on that story, it's N-I-K-O-L-A-M-O-T-O-R Nikola motor comm slash press release again Nikola focuses on the heavy trucks, but they they don't Market it, but they also have a off-road vehicle That's got 500 horsepower of electric drive in it with a fuel cell I would check that out problem enough to kill yourself if you're if you're a silly off-road or like some of the characters I've seen you could get really hurt with that thing. Anyway, check out Nikola motors Bloom energy unveils electrolyzer to supercharge the path to low-cost net zero hydrogen and They're saying At this piece of equipment out of bloom energy and they're they're old-timer in hydrogen They've been around quite a while, but they're saying that this electrolyzer technology that they've developed When they say it's supercharging they they mean it's really gonna shake up the market there They're claiming this is gonna be one of those. What do they call it? Again not a game-changer disruptive technology They're claiming that it's going to be 15 to 45 percent more efficient than the current technology that's out there That's huge. It's gonna bring a cost down These are the kind of things in the hydrogen industry that you look for and go This might be one to watch again. Maybe maybe look at it as a stock stock purchase down the road And the next story is hydrogen investment pipeline grows to 500 billion in response to government commitments to deep carbonization So unlike the natural gas pipeline, they're talking about a money pipeline 500 billion with a B Billion with a B. That's a lot of money and that's from several countries Putting putting things together says 359 large-scale projects have been announced globally 131 of those projects have been announced in the first half of this year Europe is leading the way with investments of 130 billion But other regions are catching up most notably Wake up America Most notably China China is emerging as a potential hydrogen giant with 50 plus projects following announcements of net zero emissions by 2060 So if we would get quit focusing on silly things and Start focusing on what we need to be doing to stay competitive in the world Like America has always done in its history. It's proud history We would be working on hydrogen technology so that we stay dominant in the industry and Environment and we start fixing things up because China has a long ways to catch up to us, but guess what? They're doing it and they're working hard at it. So mr. Biden get on your running shoes and start looking at hydrogen and get moving Universal hydrogen in a net-zero carbon plane deals with Iceland air This is another another great story. You want to test it? You know if it really works in cold weather take it to Iceland. They have great summers But let me tell you the spring in the fall look just like Minnesota dead of winter if you're not careful It can be great. I mean I was there on one military trip. We landed it was 65 degrees By the end of the week We had four foot long icicles hanging off the building and it was 20 degrees with snow blowing sideways And if you're an aviator You really get an appreciation for nasty weather when you're in a place like Iceland It's great people. They use all geothermal super efficient country Great Scandinavian country lamb dogs are especially good try the lamb dogs They're good if you ever go to Iceland and the blue Lagoon both really outstanding But that's the place to test this stuff. Anyway This company and if you want to read more about it another great news service WWW Reuters comm so that's our EU TERS comm business aerospace these folks are developing kits and The kits include a fuel cell and electric powertrain to replace conventional turbo props built by Pratt Whitney in Canada for the airlines and And the airlines are Investing in these kits They can be offset against long-term contracts to supply fuel Be a modular capsule. So if you're if you know anything about designing airplanes and stuff Weight is critical weight and balance is critical so if you can replace an engine with similar thrust and similar Characteristics with similar weight and similar size. You don't have to redesign the airplane You can take plug-and-play and take a piece of equipment put it in there and you've got all your weight balance and all your other critical Categories all your your critical functions met to make sure the airplane stays airworthy Because in an airplane if you add a bunch of weight here You have to take some off there or put some more over here to balance it out Depends on how far away it is from center of gravity Otherwise your plane doesn't fly very well. You can stall it can do all kind of nasty things So these guys are getting it right modular goes into the airplane To replace an existing piece of equipment of similar weight and size and performance. That's the way to do it NYPA testing green hydrogen at Brentwood power station. And it's just another power power plant story new CEO At the hydrogen council. I really like this story For those of you that aren't familiar with the hydrogen council the hydrogen council was started in early 2017 And it was kind of rolled out the same time that US Department of Energy's hydrogen division was promoting Scaling up hydrogen to a large scale and They work together, but this hydrogen council started with just a handful of companies. Maybe Five or ten companies, but big names show oil Toyota, you know, air lequid air gas. They started off That hydrogen council today in 2021 has I think it's approaching 75 or 80 Companies and they're not slouchy company. So here you have the Cummings CEO Moving in to replace one of the co-chairs who happens to be the CEO of Toyota So we're not talking a little small characters here. We're talking heavy hitters in industry not hydrogen industry industry So Cummings diesel CEO is replacing Toyota CEO as a co-chair and the other co-chair is from Air lequid a French company and he's he's there as the other co-chair I guess they rotate out in alternating positions so that they don't they always have some continuity in there But this hydrogen council has done Yeoman's work in hydrogen industry shall promote safety to promote, you know, good business models It's just outstanding. So if you want to look at that more, you can also check that Cummings.com website and learn more about that Amazon and UPS say hydrogen is farther down the road Then electric and that's nice. They caution that it's not like right there tomorrow But it has longer legs if I could use that term They're starting to see that if you're going to buy a ton of batteries to provide for your system for your network of forklifts or trucks or cars or whatever Gets a little pricey real fast. But hydrogen has the capacity as It comes online and scales up to get cheaper and cheaper and cheaper Whereas batteries only have a projection to get more more expensive. I don't care what Elon Musk says There's a simple thing called supply and demand And when you're trying to replace huge huge industries like transportation You're gonna run out of cobalt. You're gonna run out of lithium. You're gonna run out of a lot of stuff So unless you can come up with some digital batteries You know some other technology and that's supposedly a couple of 20 years down the road So I think hydrogen is going to make a big big inroads here for the next 20 years And Norway Norway's Yara looks to supply zero carbon carbon dioxide green Ammonia to Japan the funny thing about this story if you want to learn more it's on again Asia Nikkei comm Norway is Making hydrogen in Australia to ship to Japan. Go figure. That's how big this stuff is we're talking international here That's why I'm broadcasting from Paris today Hyundai Motors signs an MOU to commercialize hydrogen fuel cell propulsion systems for marine vessels Hyundai is you know from South Korea. They got the vehicles They're the only company I know of that is to production vehicles out for sale around the world and they're both good vehicles I've driven Their Tucson it was actually my favorite of all the cars that I drove all the vehicles I drove And now they got the next though Hyundai is really making great headway and they're also trying to get into aviation a little bit and maritime Toyota Mirai Breaks world record for distance driven with one fill of hydrogen So as new Toyota Mirai has increased the world's record distance To over a thousand kilometers on one fill of hydrogen After breaking that record the Mirai was refueled and ready to go in five minutes This demonstrates hydrogen fuel tech cell technology As a leading solution for long distance driving with zero emissions and a quick fill by the way That's was from newsroom.toyota.eu so it's Europe out of Europe Okay, this one. I'm not even going to try and pronounce this the Scandinavian names of all these companies But there's a Scandinavian company again out of Norway That's going to be putting hydrogen propulsion in the longest ferry route in Norway All hydrogen powered do you want to check out that story? It's www O-C-E-A-N-H-Y-W-A-Y-C-L-U-S-T-E-R.no slash news So www ocean highway cluster Dot Norway dot news Let me see Michelin to debut hydrogen powered endurance racer in the 2021 greenwood festival And we're running out of time here. So my last story is actually one of my favorite The eighth monaco energy boat challenge is supposed to be the biggest yet So right down from paris here is the french Riviera and the great little monarchy of monaco Remember if you got a yacht just cruise on over there, but anyway, there's a boat there called the high nova 40 It's the first pleasure vessel to be outfitted With that sane fuel cell technology that went into the energy observer I did a story on the energy observer when they visited Hawaii before they went to tokyo for the olympics It's made by Toyota and now it's in another boat. It's going to be shown in monaco so Walter crank tight here going to be signing off. Thanks for watching And uh, I'll try and give stan your best and see where the heck he is out here in Hawaii and have him back next week. Aloha