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Apple to Ditch Plug-in Batteries for Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Apple is an eco-conscious brand aiming to tackle the unpleasant low-battery situations in an eco-friendly manner, while fighting fossil fuel dependency and boosting new green technologies. Rumor has it that the company is experimenting a new strategy, meant to replace the traditional plug-in batteries with fuel cel...

28 December 2011
03:46 GMT

Panasonic's Fuel Cells Guide Japan's Steps Towards Energy Independence

Japan is struggling to improve its energy infrastructure, hoping to boost the field of renewables by exploiting the benefits of solar, methanol and fuel cell innovations. Eight months after the Fukushima disaster, authorities try to replace the nuclear power with alternatives displaying a higher safety level. Panas...

23 November 2011
07:07 GMT

The PowerTrekk Fuel Cell Makes a Showing at the 2011 MWC

While fuel cells have promised to deliver unlimited amounts of power without hurting the environment for quite some time now, not many companies have managed to deliver solutions based on this technology free of any drawbacks, but this hasn't stopped myFC from giving it a try with their PowerTrekk unit. Compa...

15 February 2011
09:29 GMT

Methane Fuel Cells Powered Notebooks Close to Becoming a Reality

Although present day notebooks have advanced a great deal when compared to their early counterparts, managing to reach performance levels that would definitely put to shame a two year old desktop computer, battery life is one area where things remained pretty much unchanged, but scientists at the Harvard School of En...

26 November 2010
07:11 GMT

Panasonic Unveils a Fuel Cell the Size of a Laptop Battery

At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2006, Panasonic showed a fuel cell meant to power notebooks as an alternative to traditional batteries. At that time, the company only managed to create a fuel cell which was two times larger than a laptop battery. The Japanese company has been w...

21 October 2008
05:24 GMT

DSLRs to Use Methanol Fuel Cells

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

Hydrogen-Bond Exchange Seen in Real Time

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

Formic Acid May One Day Power Fuel Cell Vehicles

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

Platinum Nanocube to Enhance Fuel Cell Efficiency

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

Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane, a First

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

Hydrogen Compound Turns Superconductor under Pressure

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

Hydrogen and Ruptured Storing Tanks. Will It Fizz or Will It Bang?

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

Meet the Electricity Generating Bacterium!

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

Oxygen Has the "Hotties" for Titanium

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

Green Technology Turns Grey All of a Sudden

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

NEC Flask Phone: Fuel Cell Power and Transparency

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

Yeah... Give Me Five Kilos of Pig Manure, My Tank Seems to be Empty!

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

Fuel Cell Prototype Works with Toxic Waste!

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

New Energy Generators for Laptops

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

Fuel Cells for Notebooks

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

Samsung Wants To Use Fuel Cells For Powering Phones

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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