Date: July 21, 2022
Time: 1000–1200h PT
Price: There is no cost to register for this event. Registration is required.

The webinar is open to the public; ECS membership is not required.

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The ECS Interface winter 2021 issue is now available to read online. The issue on clean hydrogen is guest edited by Nemanja Danilovic, formerly of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and now at Electric Hydrogen, and Iryna Zenyuk of the National Fuel Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine. As always, Interface Editor Rob Kelly invites you to enjoy the issue’s special features and news.

Special Features

Hydrogen’s Big Shot
by Nemanja Danilovic, Iryna Zenyuk

Ten Questions for Kelly J. Speakes-Backman, Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy
by Julie C. Fornaciari (more…)

Hydrogen gas: it’s storable, can refuel a car in minutes (versus batteries which can take hours to recharge), and its waste product is water. It is the holy grail of clean-energy advocates.

The only problem is that the electrolyzers that make hydrogen from renewable energy are quite expensive. But, that soon may change, according to Ars Technica.

According to a new paper in Nature Energy, researchers from universities in Germany and at Stanford University have created a financial model for a wind farm connected to a hydrogen electrolyzer. (more…)

Photo Credit: René Frampe, Alstrom

Last week, we told you about California’s commitment to go 100 percent carbon-free by 2045. Well, it turns out the Golden State is in good company. Germany has welcomed two of their first, state-of-the-art hydrogen-powered trains, according to Ars Technica.

The trains are built to run a total of 62-miles throughout the windswept hills of Northern Germany before refueling. These cutting-edge trains, known as  Coradia iLint trains, are the first of its kind — with 14 more hydrogen-powered trains expected to be delivered before 2021 by the French train-building company Alstom. A big step towards Germany’s goal to lower transportation-related emission. (more…)

Researchers at KTH have successfully tested a new material that can be used for cheap and large-scale production of hydrogen – a promising alternative to fossil fuel.

Precious metals are the standard catalyst material used for extracting hydrogen from water. The problem is these materials – such as platinum, ruthenium and iridium – are too costly to make the process viable. A team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology recently announced a breakthrough that could change the economics of a hydrogen economy.

Led by Licheng Sun, professor of molecular electronics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the researchers concluded that precious metals can be replaced by a much cheaper combination of nickel, iron and copper (NiFeCu).

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