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The US Department of Energy (DOE), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and General Motors (GM) have just set aside $2.1 million for a three-year grant destined to researchers investigating how to create a fuel cell capable of powering a car for 300 miles on a single charge.
Storing large amount... |
27 January 2012
06:05 GMT |
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Space robotics experts at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are working on a new generation of exploration rovers. They say that the machines would look entirely different from the robots we're used to seeing launch in space. For starters, they will be powered by microbes. Scientists acknowledge the fact th... |
4 January 2012
11:02 GMT |
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Experts have found an innovative method that might make the prices of hydrogen cells decrease. Scientists agree upon the fact that the secret ingredient in this case is represented by Vitamin B12, meant to replace the current purpose of platinum, as a much more cost-effective catalyst.
A group of scientists from the... |
28 November 2011
10:22 GMT |
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Researchers around the world have been working on developing biological fuel cells for many years, and now a team at the University of Cambridge has finally been able to demonstrate the technology.
In a new study, they were able to create fuel cells capable of harnessing energy from plants themselves, opening up a... |
22 September 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Japanese scientists from the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (ASI) are convinced that they've discovered a novel material technology, which they say could be used for the development of advanced fuel cells that will be more efficient than anything under development today.
The key to this achievement is the c... |
22 September 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, are currently studying a new class of materials, which they say could provide vastly improved hydrogen-storing capabilities for the next generation of fuel cells. These energy-storing devices are being used to replace gasoline and diesel in... |
19 September 2011
05:46 GMT |
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Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) environmental engineer Bruce Logan is currently working on a way of transforming wastewater from households into usable, electrical energy. If his team is successful, then we may gain access to a new method of producing current in a renewable manner. This study was informed ... |
22 August 2011
10:19 GMT |
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A group of physicists from the United States announces the development of a new method of producing hydrogen fuel cells. The approach does not require the use of scarce and expensive platinum, and this could significantly contribute to boosting this field of research.Fuel cells have been touted as the next big thing ... |
22 April 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Fuel cells might still seem to be rather far from mainstream status, but the truth of the matter is that these power sources are quite likely to become even more popular on the future, with myFC being among the first companies out there to roll out a consumer-grade, fuel-cell based power source, namely the PowerTrekk... |
11 February 2011
04:08 GMT |
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It’s official: Apple has been granted its first Liquidmetal patent, according to the folks at cultofmac.com. Liquidmetal is a sci-fi metal alloy that NASA says is “poised to redefine materials science as we know it in the 21st century.”
Apple is known to have signed an exclusive agreement with Li... |
5 January 2011
08:49 GMT |
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As time passes, it becomes increasingly clear that fossil fuels will no longer be able to cut it in terms of servicing our power needs without destroying Earth. Experts say that hydrogen, the most abundant substance in the Universe, is the chemical of the future. Electricity coming from alternative sources is current... |
1 November 2010
11:50 GMT |
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An international collaboration of experts has recently developed a new type of miniature fuel cell that is capable of using biological fluids to generate electricity. The work could become very important in the near future, as experts create more advanced medical biosensors.The science team that produced the fuel cel... |
29 October 2010
09:18 GMT |
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A team of experts from a US national lab has developed a new type of observations method, called ambient-pressure photoelectron spectroscopy (APXPS), which helps them peer inside fuel cells. Observing the individual components of fuel cells in action is no easy feat. A technique known as XPS can help scientists monit... |
6 October 2010
03:11 GMT |
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A team of investigators may have just discovered a class of power-storing materials that may easily exceed the benchmarks set by the DOE in terms of hydrogen storage. The US Department of Energy is intent in funding research into hydrogen storage, because this technology is what will make the cars of the future possi... |
1 October 2010
03:01 GMT |
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In a finding that could innovate the field of small electronic devices, experts recently created a new type of fuel cells that only need water and a warm breeze to function. The German research team behind the investigation says that possible applications for their energy-storage device could include powering up smal... |
28 April 2010
10:57 GMT |
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Many scientists around the world have over the past few years attempted to create an artificial leaf based directly on Mother Nature's design. The reason why such a device needs to be obtained is that it would basically convert sunlight into energy using the same process that all vegetation does, and namely phot... |
26 March 2010
03:43 GMT |
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Electric vehicles are at this point our only option, if we are to avert the effects of climate change and global warming. Regular cars produce too much greenhouse gas emissions, and they need to be eliminated soon. But replacing them is not very easy because of the high costs and low driving ranges associated with ba... |
18 March 2010
07:33 GMT |
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One of the main reasons why hydrogen-powered vehicles are not the norm in our world today is the fact that batteries and fuel cells are not yet efficient enough at delivering their charge. In addition, reloading them can be a very complicated and time-consuming process, and this is why physicists have been working on... |
3 February 2010
06:52 GMT |
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Over recent years, robotic spy planes and unmanned drones have helped armies around the world take the best decisions for a specific situation on the battlefield. This ability stems from the fact that these aircrafts are perfectly capable of supplying their commanders with live feeds from the hot spot. Now, innovatio... |
21 November 2009
02:13 GMT |
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has recently announced that it will award $1.7 million in grant money to the University of Rochester, to support new, alternative, hydrogen-production methods. The university's approach relies on using artificial photosynthesis and carbon nanotubes to get the job done, and this ... |
15 October 2009
18:11 GMT |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) have recently announced the development of a new, innovative type of ceramic that, apparently, has the ability to be a major contributor to improving the hydrogen-fuel cell battery technology and bring about the new era of all-electric cars. The new mat... |
13 October 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Ana Martinez Amesti, a PhD candidate at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), will soon present her doctoral thesis, entitled “Solid oxide fuel cells. Studies on reactivity and optimisation of cathode-electrolyte interlayer,” to the world. The paper may bear considerable implications for the fie... |
17 September 2009
10:58 GMT |
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In the Arizona desert, NASA recently showcased its latest lunar rover, a vehicle known as the Lunar Electric Rover (LER). Running entirely on electricity provided by batteries and fuel cells, the new instrument has a closed cockpit, which means that astronauts will no longer have to wear their bulky spacesuits, as th... |
17 September 2009
10:20 GMT |
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Hydrogen-based vehicles are, at this point, a fairly uncommon occurrence, mostly because the designs are still plagued by engineering and technical issues. One of these problems is how to recycle hydrogen-containing fuel materials, so that they can be used again. Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LA... |
2 September 2009
19:11 GMT |
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Aluminum hydride has been touted as one of the most promising materials for carbon storage by experts involved in this line of research for a long time. Now, researchers at the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) have engineered a reversible route to generate the ... |
7 July 2009
11:08 GMT |
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Fuel cell technology holds the most promise as the next big thing in energy storage, as it is far more effective than conventional batteries in providing electrical current to electric cars and other such machines. However, at this point, it is still not quite ready for implementation, and the cells' rather bulk... |
22 June 2009
06:54 GMT |
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One of the biggest challenges opposing the wide-scale introduction of hydrogen cars on public roads is the fact that hydrogen fuel sources are still fairly large and cumbersome, and they cannot be easily carried around. For long voyages in fuel cell-powered vehicles, having a spare is a must, but the large dimensions... |
12 May 2009
05:30 GMT |
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One of the main goals in the field of hydrogen car research is the creation of a good fueling system. That is to say, a system that would allow travelers to fill their vehicles' fuel cells in less than 5 minutes, and then drive some 300 miles with a single charge. Making this happen is not as easy as it may seem... |
3 April 2009
06:04 GMT |
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The Energy Independent Farm concept developed by the New Holland Agriculture (NHA) company has yielded one of the most sophisticated pieces of farming equipment on Earth, the NH2 hydrogen-powered tractor. The impressive machine makes use of technologies similar to those already employed in the automobile industry, bu... |
24 February 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Although President Barack Obama is seeking to raise the bar as far as renewable energy goes, there are still a few setbacks to be overcome, at least as far as hydrogen-based fuels are concerned. That is to say, in order to build H2 fuel cells for electric vehicles, or other such applications, scientists have to firs... |
17 February 2009
04:45 GMT |
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Despite the fact that the global recession is expected to hit the automotive industry pretty hard, car makers in Japan took it upon themselves to spearhead the international effort in creating the first totally clean car, to run either on electricity, fuel cells, or hydrogen. Although this concept may seem a thing of... |
5 January 2009
11:13 GMT |
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In a press release published yesterday, the company MTI Micro revealed that it would begin mass production of methanol fuel cells of handheld and portable electronic devices somewhere this year, so that by the beginning of 2009 they would become available for purchase. The company plans to replace all lithium ion bat... |
8 April 2008
10:10 GMT |
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Although being the most abundant and lightest element in the universe, hydrogen is one of the most difficult to store in bulk. Take classical gas storage containers for example. The temperature and the pressure inside them must be closely correlated to ensure that the container is able to hold. Maintaining the right ... |
20 March 2008
10:54 GMT |
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The U.S. fuel dependency could become a thing of the past. The U.S. hopes that in about twenty year, all the cars running on the American roads will be powered by cheap, clean and practical hydrogen fuel to replace the oil. In 2003, president George W. Bush, allocated 1.2 billion dollars, to make hydrogen in the hope... |
19 November 2007
07:11 GMT |
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The process is somehow similar to that which involves the wastewater cleaning operation, but tweaked a little, so that common bacteria that clean the waters will produce hydrogen instead, in a new efficient way. An experiment conducted at Penn State University has already successfully used microbes to produce electri... |
13 November 2007
05:44 GMT |
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For no apparent reason, it seems that instead of developing, the fuel cell technology is stagnating. A truly remarkable technology, the fuel cells, seem to promise us a lot of advantages. Gas emissions that produce the greenhouse effect could be a thing of the past, and we could exploit a good reliable renewable sour... |
5 November 2007
10:13 GMT |
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