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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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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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How do you make hydrogen more solid than a solid? It doesn't make any sense! It might not make sense to us, however researchers from the National Institute of Standard and Technology's Center for Neutron Research could have found the answer in what they call metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs for short. They... |
3 April 2008
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It is pretty clear that, in this rhythm, very few of us will have any money to buy petrol. That's why the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is trying to develop new means through which chemically manipulated algae generate renewable fuels, such as hydrogen gas for example. "We believe ... |
2 April 2008
06:07 GMT |
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It's official, BMW's Hydrogen 7 prototype is world's cleanest vehicle! Tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory reveal that the hydrogen-powered engine of the BMW Hydrogen 7 surpasses that of the super-ultra low-emission vehicles, a standard for low emission v... |
31 March 2008
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Stars spend most of their lives burning hydrogen through nuclear fusion reactions to produce the energy required to remain stable as long as possible. By doing so, two hydrogen atoms are fused together to create a single helium atom and a fair amount of energy. However, at some point in time, the star will begin proc... |
21 March 2008
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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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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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The Dark Ages, as we call the period of time between the Big Bang event and the birth of the first star in the universe, is one of the most debated topics in Cosmology, and one of the most unexplored periods in the history of the universe. All this will hopefully change in the near future with the design of the next-... |
12 March 2008
10:25 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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According to new observations conducted with the Chandra X-ray Space Observatory, stars are no longer restricted to form inside the accretion disk of matter of a particular galaxy, but could easily start a star formation process far away if provided with the required amount of material. Such a process is currently ta... |
29 February 2008
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The spider silk is extremely lightweight but at the same time as strong as steel, even if its structure is based on molecular forces 100 to 1,000 times weaker than those encountered in the steel's metallic bonds, or even Kevlar's covalent bonds. A new MIT research has used theoretical modeling, laws of ther... |
19 February 2008
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This is exactly what plants do during the photosynthesis: stealing the hydrogen of the water using light. Hydrogen would be a very clean fuel, and a recent Penn State research has made a step further towards this direction. "This is a proof-of-concept system that is very inefficient. But ultimately, catalytic systems... |
18 February 2008
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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
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The beginning of the 20th century found mankind right in the middle of a struggle to learn even more about the universe we live in. Einstein published his theory of relativity, resolving a long debate in the field of physics, while Hans Bethe from the Cornell University published for the first time an approximated mo... |
25 January 2008
04:42 GMT |
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Just when you think you know everything about it, it starts again acting in unpredictable ways. Water is probably the substance with the longest list of anomalies known to man, meaning it behaves in unique and contrary ways in relation to the vast majority of all the other substances. When it freezes, it expands, as ... |
19 January 2008
06:34 GMT |
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Angstrom Power Inc., a company based in Vancouver, Canada, together with Motorola, the US mobile manufacturer, have completed a six-months trial using a new technology that promises to reinvent the way mobile phones are powered. Angstrom developed a revolutionary mobile solution intended to replace the standard Lith... |
16 January 2008
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Electromagnetic observations of the visible universe represent the most important and powerful tool while studying large structures lying in the near vicinity of our galaxy, regardless of the wavelength domain used in the process - optical, radio or X-ray and infrared. The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey, or THINGS for short... |
16 January 2008
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There is only one word on everyone's lips today: energy. And how to produce it more efficiently, without polluting the planet. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER for short, has recently received a contribution of 1.4 billion dollars from the Republic of China, which covers about 10 pe... |
8 January 2008
10:16 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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Incredible as it may seem, the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen will soon be unavailable for Earth. Helium gas represents 8 percent of the total mass observed in the universe, but the reserves of the largest helium mining facility located in Texas are predicted to deplete in about eight ye... |
7 January 2008
03:47 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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The chemical substance that we commonly call water presents some of the longest lists of substance anomalies known to man, amongst which most of them are widely a mystery to most people, such as phase, density, material, thermodynamic and physical anomalies. For example, water as a gas is the lightest known, as a liq... |
21 December 2007
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Tritium represents one of hydrogen's isotopes. It is radioactive, having a nucleus formed of one proton and two neutrons, while the most abundant isotope of hydrogen, protium, has no neutrons. The half life of the tritium atom is somewhere around 12 years, and the decay reaction results in a helium atom plus in ... |
30 November 2007
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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
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Diamonds are often compared to stars and viceversa, sparkling with bright light. The explosion which created the whole observable universe produced matter composed of 99.9 percent hydrogen. Even today most of the matter present in the universe is still in the form of molecular hydrogen. Stars are made up of this wide... |
15 November 2007
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SN 2006gy is the brightest supernova ever observed. It was first discovered last year, in the constellation Perseus, about 240 million light years away, when during an explosion it displayed a luminosity one hundred times more than a typical supernova. Since there is no theoretical explanation for this event, two tea... |
15 November 2007
03:16 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
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New studies in astrophysics bring an unexpected result. Stars with high metalicity have fewer stellar companions. The research was conducted at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales and could help in the search for stars that have Earth-like planets.The metalicity is a scientific te... |
9 November 2007
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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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The experiment conducted at the University of Pennsylvania, designed to measure vibrations that occur during the slide of two materials on each other's surface, demonstrate that heavier elements planted on the surface of an object can reduce the force of friction and loss of energy through this process.Scientis... |
2 November 2007
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Although water is found almost everywhere on Earth – 70 percent of our planet being covered with the indispensable liquid, of which 97 percent is salty water – the scientists’ quest for new types of renewable energy uncovers a series of chemical reactions that can be used to produce water in a new way.Water is a che... |
1 November 2007
07:32 GMT |
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In Cosmos, the most coveted commodity is hydrogen, a gas that galaxies can use for building stars. A new study made on data offered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope uncovered a distant, massive galaxy burglar while stealing huge gas amounts, about the quantity comprised by one billion suns, from its smaller nei... |
24 October 2007
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Some people sustain that our oceans came from space, brought by water-filled asteroids and comets showering on a juvenile Earth, 3.8 billion years ago. But this concept is challenged by Japanese planetary scientists, who point out that the oceans are a self production of the Earth, originating from a thick blanket of... |
8 October 2007
05:11 GMT |
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Garbage could be the solution for the future's fuel crisis. A team at Ohio State University has tried to figure out how to transform discarded chicken eggshells into an alternative energy source. The new technique employs eggshells to absorb carbon dioxide while delivering hydrogen fuel and could also lead to a ... |
3 October 2007
02:54 GMT |
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Even if water is one of the most important and abundant molecules on Earth, it has unique traits, determined by hydrogen bonds, that still puzzle scientists. A recent research found a new one. "The interaction of water with electric fields has been intensely explored over the last years. We report another unusual ef... |
1 October 2007
05:27 GMT |
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We hope this is of a better quality than the Chinese T-shirts, but they also did it. Shanghai Pearl Hydrogen Power Source Technology Co revealed the first environmentally clean hydrogen fuel-cell bike at the 9th China International Exhibition on Gas Technology, Equipment and Applications which took place last week at... |
11 September 2007
02:43 GMT |
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Hydrogen fuel-cell technology sounds almost too good to be true. You combine cheap and plentiful hydrogen and oxygen gas, the fuel cell generates electricity and the by-product is simply water. But there's something more involved.So far, the biggest downside of hydrogen-powered cars is the fact that it is very... |
2 July 2007
03:38 GMT |
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Peanut butter is a favorite breakfast and snack for many Americans, and not only for them. The food paste, made primarily from ground roasted peanuts, with or without added oil, was first used by the Pre-Columbian peoples of Mexico, who used it as a base for various "moles", meaning sauces.Now, a team of scientists p... |
30 June 2007
06:05 GMT |
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A team of scientists successfully performed what can be called "molecular surgery." What they did was snip off a single hydrogen atom from a molecule and then added it back on again. This is the first time a single chemical bond between two atoms has been broken and reforged.Moreover, the scientists claim to be able ... |
30 June 2007
05:21 GMT |
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Hydrogen-powered cars seem to be the best solution to the problem of fossil fuels pollution. The ever increasing concerns about global warming and the future shortage of natural fuel sources have given the automotive industry and researchers from other fields alike a new impulse in developing new technologies.Though... |
25 June 2007
10:48 GMT |
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There is a place on Earth, deep underground, where whole atoms of antimatter are being built. This is no top secret government installation, it's just the largest physical experiment in the world. CERN's Large Hadron Collider, built below ground level, spanning in at the border of two countries, Switzerlan... |
23 June 2007
03:47 GMT |
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Hydrogen-powered cars seem to be the best solution to the problem of fossil fuels pollution. The ever increasing concerns about global warming and the future shortage of natural fuel sources have given the automotive industry and researchers from other fields alike a new impulse in developing new technologies.Hydrog... |
18 June 2007
12:06 GMT |
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The term Big Bang nucleosynthesis refers to the creation of the first nuclei during the early phases of the universe, shortly after the Big Bang. It is generally believed that in the minutes and hours after the Big Bang itself, besides the normal hydrogen, the heavier isotopes deuterium (D) and tritium (T) and the l... |
25 May 2007
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An important breakthrough has been made in the field of hydrogen-fueled cars. The new storage technology has overcome one of the biggest shortcomings of current technology by increasing the car's autonomy up to 300 miles.A team from the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford and the Rutherford Appleton Laborator... |
24 May 2007
16:36 GMT |
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The most interesting automobile to hit the "market" of incredible prototypes that actually work is the BMW H2R Record Car. You wouldn't think a hydrogen car could do so much, but this is not just an electric car.She's a fine example of German craftsmanship combined with the latest technology in the field of... |
24 May 2007
11:21 GMT |
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No meal is complete without a little bit of sugar. In fact, adding a little sugar even to a salty meal enhances its taste. By 2020, you could add sugar to your car to make it more efficient in producing hydrogen.This is not a sci-fi theme and even the U.S. Department of Energy's 2006 Advance Energy Initiative p... |
23 May 2007
04:30 GMT |
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A new discovery made by NASA's Wind spacecraft (launched in November 1994 and deployed to study radio and plasma that occur in solar wind, in the Earth's magnetosphere), showed that helium acts like a sort of throttle for solar wind, regulating its speed by setting a minimum one. The solar wind is a strea... |
18 May 2007
09:16 GMT |
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A breakthrough has been made in the field of alternative fuels. A new method can generate hydrogen from water with the help of an aluminum alloy, which can be used in fuel cells or internal combustion engines.It could successfully replace gasoline in conventional engines and overcomes the biggest challenge in today&... |
16 May 2007
07:06 GMT |
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Hydrogen-powered cars seem to be the best solution to the problem of fossil fuels pollution. The ever increasing concerns about global warming and the future shortage of natural fuel sources have given the automotive industry and researchers from other field alike a new impulse in developing new technologies.David ... |
10 May 2007
16:31 GMT |
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