Move Over Electrolysis, Make Way for Geologic Hydrogen
Hydrogen from electrolysis looks to soon be overtaken by geologic hydrogen, and the main reason is cost. Listen to this analysis to find out why.
Jun 06, 2025•19 min•Season 5Ep. 93
HydrogenNowCast
The HydrogenNowCast is devoted to encouraging the deployment of Fuel Cell EV’s, hydrogen fueling and hydrogen infrastructure throughout the world. Our intent is to encourage and motivate others to take charge, to help deploy hydrogen as a means to decarbonize the transportation and energy sectors, and accelerate the movement to stop climate change
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Episodes
5-Year Anniversary Special
In this episode, host Brian DeBruine provides a summary of the energy transition progress over the last 5 years in Colorado and the world.
May 25, 2025•38 min•Season 5Ep. 92
Hydrogen Electricity Generators with Power-UP
In this episode we talk with Ivar Kruusenberg, CEO of Power-Up about hydrogen in Estonia and Europe and their hydrogen electricity generators.
May 20, 2025•32 min•Season 4Ep. 91
The Psychology of Existential Threats
Existential threats like Climate Change and the current political situation seem to present challenges so huge, complicated and intractable that they defy our attempts to solve them. Consequently, we can become burned-out and may even disengage entirely. We’ll look at the psychological reasons behind this burn out and offer some solutions on how to cope.
Feb 21, 2025•32 min•Season 4Ep. 90
Creating clean hydrogen from old oil reservoirs using biology
Hydrogen from geology may be the only source that can compete with diesel for transportation or with natural gas. The company Gold H2, Inc. has found a way to extract low-cost Clean hydrogen from abandoned petroleum reservoirs.
Jan 17, 2025•14 min•Season 4Ep. 89
Hydrogen Mountain Retreat, Boulder
Four interviews recorded at the Saoradh Enterprise Partners (SEP) Hydrogen Mountain Retreat with C-Zero Technology (CH4 to H2 & solid carbon), The Port of Corpus Cristi, Nasadya (metal hydride) and Verne (cryo-compressed hydrogen).
Oct 21, 2024•45 min•Season 4Ep. 88
Guest appearance on the TFL Car Chat podcast
This podcast is a recording of a guest appearance of Brian DeBruine on the TFL Car Chat podcast.
Aug 23, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 87
Hydrogen transport with pipe and dirigibles
A conversation with Rinaldo Brutoco of H2Clipper where we talk about transporting hydrogen and why hydrogen costs so much in California at the pump.
Aug 02, 2024•38 min•Season 4Ep. 86
Plug Power Interview
An interview with Plug Power Chief Technical Officer, Tim Cortes.
May 03, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 85
A Path to Zero Carbon Industry
Jeffrey Rissman, Senior Director of the Industry program at Energy Innovation, a non-partisan energy and climate-policy think-tank. gives an overview of his book Zero-Carbon Industry which is a fantastic reference and roadmap for Industrial decarbonization.
Apr 26, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 84
Electrochemical Compression and Purification with HyET Hydrogen
An interview with Quinten Swanborn of HyET Hydrogen talking about hydrogen electrochemical compressors and purifiers.
Feb 23, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 83
Geologic Hydrogen
Guest Geoffrey Ellis of the US Geological Survey gives an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding geological or Natural Hydrogen
Feb 09, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 82
Saoradh Hydrogen Data Map
The Venture Capital firm Saoradh has captured most of the hydrogen sector data which can be queried and displayed visually. They also have a hydrogen newsfeed which captures, breaks down and curates hydrogen news.
Jan 24, 2024•29 min•Season 3Ep. 81
DOT Grant for 3 Hydrogen Fuel Stations in Colorado
The US DOT has awarded a grant for the first 3 hydrogen fuel stations in Colorado. This interview is with Seth Terry of New Day Hydrogen.
Jan 13, 2024•22 min•Season 3Ep. 80
Where Will We Use Hydrogen?
Confusion seems rampant as to where to best use hydrogen. This podcast provides an objective analysis of those uses and why. We also cover the uses of electricity and biofuel.
Dec 29, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 79
Hydrogen as a Service for Commercial Fleets
Interview with Quantron and New Day Hydrogen who together are offering a complete hydrogen trucking package for fleets.
Nov 10, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 78
Accelera by Cummins
Interview with Alison Trueblood and Alex Savelli of Accelera by Cummins. Learn about how Cummins is evolving their technologies to reach zero emissions across their product portfolio .
Sep 08, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 77
A Hydrogen Aviation Interview with Hysky Society
A joint podcast with Danielle McLean, the CEO of the non-profit Hysky Society, a hydrogen aviation advocacy organization.
Jul 28, 2023•48 min•Season 3Ep. 76
Hydrogen Production Tax Credits
This podcast offers more appropriate rules to be used for for hydrogen generation to qualify for production tax credits such as the US IRA 45V.
Jul 07, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 75
Unique Hydrogen Leak Detectors
In this podcast we reveal tiny, inexpensive hydrogen detectors that can be liberally sprinkled around a system to find, notify and PINPOINT hydrogen leaks. Plus paint and tape that changes color in the presence of hydrogen.
May 19, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 74
Hydrogen Risk Management
Hydrogen risk management encompasses more than just fire and explosion but includes other things like equipment down-time, supply chain and workforce pitfalls. Listen to how experienced help is available from companies like Risktec.
Apr 14, 2023•20 min•Season 3Ep. 73
Hydrogen Fueling in Costa Rica
Interview with astronaut Franklin Chang-Dias who has deployed a hydrogen fuel station in Costa Rica. Franklin is a former NASA Astronaut and the CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company.
Mar 24, 2023•28 min•Season 3Ep. 72
Deploying the Hydrogen Transportation Ecosystem Outside California
New Day Hydrogen discusses how they're deploying the hydrogen transportation market by bringing together fueling, users, vehicles and financing.
Mar 10, 2023•28 min•Season 3Ep. 71
Biological Carbon Capture Part 2
A description of one of the most important technologies of our day -- Direct Air Carbon Capture using algae, and additionally how it can contribute to solving hard-to-decarbonize sectors like aviation, maritime and building heating.
Feb 10, 2023•52 min•Season 2Ep. 70
Why Hydrogen is Essential for Light-Duty Transportation
The US Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization specifies zero hydrogen for light duty transportation. Hear reasons why this could fail to decarbonize transportation.
Jan 22, 2023•16 min•Season 2Ep. 69
Clean Hydrogen from Petroleum Wells
A repeat airing of the interview with Proton Technologies who has a process to extract zero greenhouse gas hydrogen from old petroleum wells.
Dec 23, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 68
The Energy Transition Starts with Demand
In order for the Energy Transition to succeed, we need to place much more focus on the infrastructure needed to use renewable energy.
Dec 09, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 67
Advice to Help Fleets Convert to Zero-Emission Vehicles
An interview with Sal Llamas at AC Transit regarding their published analysis comparing Battery and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles.
Nov 25, 2022•21 min•Season 3Ep. 66
Hystar Electrolyzers
The company Hystar makes more efficient and safer electrolyzers. Tina Andersen the head of Sales and Applications Engineering with Hystar explains the unique design.
Nov 11, 2022•21 min•Season 3Ep. 65
Geothermal Energy to Hydrogen
Geothermal energy from dry rocks can be obtained almost anywhere and used in a distributed fashion to supply electricity and generate hydrogen, and do it lower cost than wind or solar.
Oct 28, 2022•25 min•Season 3Ep. 64
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