DOE to provide $8.2 million for hydrogen research over four years

Washington (Platts)--12Apr2007

DOE will fund hydrogen storage research at $8.2 million over the next
four years, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said in an April 12 press
statement. Various technologies, including the use of a next-generation
reactor, are being looked at for the production of commercial quantities of
hydrogen for use as fuel. Bodman said DOE is eager for the research into
hydrogen's efficiency and capacity "to move us toward making hydrogen
[powered] vehicles with a 300-mile plus driving range commercially available."
DOE said United Technologies Research Center received two awards totaling
$2.08 million; Sandia National Laboratories, $2 million; Argonne National
Laboratory, $1.88 million; Miami University, $1.44 million; and University of
Hawaii, $810,000. The development of a hydrogen storage system is integral to
President George Bush's plan to move the US toward the use of hydrogen fuel
and decrease its dependence on foreign oil.