Here is very good news:  The U.S. Department of Energy will stop researching hydrogen fuel cells for cars.  Hydrogen fuel cells might be feasible if there were gigantic supplies of cheap wind and solar power available to make hydrogen.  It was never a near term concept.   In fact, when George Bush proposed a “moon shot” in transportation technology based on hydrogen, my take at the time was that it was being trotted out because of the desire of both Bush and some Detroit executives to defer the inevitable transition to …

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In what has to be one of the great ironies or history Geoffrey Ballard, founder of Ballard Power Systems which originally developed hydrogen fuel cells but was never successful at commercializing them, passed away on August 2, just as a new technology that could make fuel cells successful was announced at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

According to a report from  M.I.T., a professor and his research assistant have discovered catalysts that will cause the sun’s energy to break up water into oxygen and hydrogen, thus making it possible to produce …

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