2008-06-07 12:14:33 -

- Jerry Woodall, National Medal of Technology Laureate and Barry M. and Patricia L. Epstein Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, announced at the SNS Future in Review (FiRe) technology conference, held here May 20-23, that he has developed a means of providing supplemental power to diesel-electric freight trains using hydrogen.

Woodall is in talks

with the Florida East Coast Railroad to implement testing of the process, which he claims cuts back on soot and increases the efficiency of diesel engines by up to 15%. He has also approached GE with the new technology.

Prior to his position at Purdue University, Woodall was employed by the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he advanced to the position of IBM Fellow. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989, has published more than 300 publications, and has been issued 67 U.S. patents.

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of LightSpin Technologies Inc., a high-tech startup company, Woodall earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a BS in Metallurgy from MIT.

Mark Anderson, Chair of the FiRe conference and CEO of parent company Strategic News Service, interviewed Woodall at the conference. "Jerry's discoveries have opened the door to the much-discussed 'Hydrogen Economy.' Now it's time to move from talk to action," Anderson says. He points out that Woodall is seeking much-deserved additional funding and governmental support for the work.

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