Towards Hydrogen Trains

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09/04/2009

Sep. 04, 2009

Towards Hydrogen Trains

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While some clean energy advocates have suggested fuel cell cars as a technology of the future, development of hydrogen fuel cell technology is moving forward in an unusual place -- the railyard. Earlier this summer, BNSF Railway demonstrated a hydrogen fuel cell switch locomotive in Kansas. In countries around the world, engineers are studying how to build locomotives that run on hydrogen, and how best to provide the infrastructure to support them. We'll talk about the technology and why some hydrogen researchers see trains as a target for hydrogen deployment.

Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer

Guests

Robert Remick
Director, Hydrogen Technologies and Systems Center

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Golden, Colorado
Alistair Miller
Senior Scientific Associate

Office of the Principal Scientist

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited

Chalk River Laboratories

Chalk River, Ontario, Canada
Melanie Johnson
Research Project Manager, Fuel Cell Locomotive

Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

US Army Corps of Engineers

Champaign, Illinois

Sep. 04, 2009