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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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