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While camera manufacturers are more focused on making faster autofocusing systems, better sensors and smarter processing units, the guys over at MTI MicroFuel Cells have one thing in mind: getting people to switch to methanol-based fuel cells (or at least some people using a special brand of DSLRs). MTI MicroFuel Cel... |
12 May 2008
04:54 GMT |
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Hydrogen bond exchange has been observed for the first time by a team of chemists from Kyoto University with the help of a scanning tunneling microscope while monitoring a single water dimer - two molecules of water bonded together. The hydrogen bond exchange takes place between two molecules with a frequency of a fe... |
9 May 2008
05:53 GMT |
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One of the problems related to implementing hydrogen technology in today's cars, aside the relative low efficiency of fuel cells, involves the fuel itself - hydrogen, a gas, the lightest element known in the universe and at the same time the most abundant. After more than 13.7 billion years, hydrogen still makes... |
7 May 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Some time has passed since fuel cells first appeared, however they are still facing serious problems related to hydrogen to electricity conversion efficiency and the cost of materials used in their construction. Brown professor of chemistry, Shouheng Sun, believes that he has found a solution to boosting the efficien... |
22 April 2008
08:56 GMT |
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In a press statement released yesterday, the aircraft manufacturer Boeing revealed that it had built the first airplane in the world running on power supplied by hydrogen-cell batteries. However, Boeing warned that although the hydrogen-cells may be used to power small airplanes, it might never become the primary pow... |
4 April 2008
04:27 GMT |
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Most of the superconducting materials commercially available on the market require cooling to low or very low temperatures to become superconductors, meaning that a special super-cooling equipment is needed in order to operate them. Unfortunately for us, this is the greatest disadvantage of using superconductors. Mos... |
17 March 2008
10:28 GMT |
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Scientists say hydrogen is the way to go in the future. There's plenty of hydrogen all around us, it is completely environmentally friendly and can provide the energy required to power our cars. No sweat, we'll be having fuel cell cars in no time! However, while harnessing its power would be no problem, sto... |
10 March 2008
11:12 GMT |
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It's not the first time scientists hear about Shewanella bacterium and something tells me it's not gonna be the last time neither. We know certain types of bacteria are capable of producing electric energy just through feeding, however this is the first time when University of Minnesota researchers reveal t... |
5 March 2008
05:52 GMT |
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Usually, when a metal catalyst reacts with an oxygen molecule, the individual split oxygen atoms behave in identical ways. It seems that this is not the case when oxygen molecule interacts with titanium metal. When the two oxygen atoms get split up, one remains embedded into the titanium crystalline structure, while ... |
14 February 2008
08:50 GMT |
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Hybrid electric vehicles present us with a partial solution to alternative renewable energy production, but the problem is that they still run mostly on gasoline fuel and, while some see them as a viable technology for the future, others argue that it is just a cover to bring more money into the pockets of the car ma... |
8 February 2008
06:22 GMT |
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NEC, the Japanese electronics manufacturer, recently unveiled a new concept phone that uses fuel cell as power. While the idea is not new, as Motorola, Samsung and Toshiba also consider implementing this technology into handsets, NEC's fuel cell phone is really something that we haven't seen until now. ... |
3 February 2008
02:06 GMT |
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I would really like to live and say this line, the guy at the pump would probably laugh himself to death before filling the tank of the car. Imagine going home to your wife saying: 'Honey can you give me some money? I've just spent 20 bucks on pig manure... I was out', and her being like: 'You di... |
7 January 2008
04:51 GMT |
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While some groups of scientists are still struggling to develop the highly efficient hydrogen fuel cells they have promised some decades ago, others are slowly moving towards alternative solutions that would not only burn fuel, but would also clear toxic waste messes created during mining operations, and could produ... |
27 December 2007
09:56 GMT |
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There are two classical ways to power up and use a laptop. The first and the most comfortable is to plug it into the main power grid and compute happily ever after, or until the next power outage. The second method is to draw power from the internal laptop battery and this is the most used method for the "on the move... |
17 August 2007
08:42 GMT |
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Traditional lithium-ion batteries used in notebook computers and all kinds of other mobile computing devices have a number of big disadvantages like short life under heavy load, increased weight, long recharge times and so on. Lately, these batteries cause much concern among customers and manufacturing companies as w... |
13 August 2007
09:12 GMT |
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Samsung has filed a patent in September last year, that has been published last week. The patent regards the use of hydrogen fuel cells for powering mobile phones. The 'Multi-layered thin film hydrogen fuel cell system' is meant to provide an alternative to the current fuel cell systems that have low effi... |
25 April 2007
03:48 GMT |
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