Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, announce the creation of a type of hybrid copper-gold nanoparticle that is extremely effective at converting carbon dioxide into methane (CH4) or methanol (CH3OH). CO2 is the primary chemical driving global warming and climate change today... |
11 April 2012
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Coal-fired power plants are currently blamed worldwide for their contribution in accelerating climate change, qualified as worst polluters in EPA reports, because of their enormous amount of harmful emissions generated annually.
A new green technology developed, tested and improved by MP BioMass plans to change this... |
16 January 2012
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SFC Energy, Inc., the US affiliate of SFC Energy AG, has just been awarded a non-exclusive license to develop a new type of technology, which was put together by experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USC).
The new technology is called Direct M... |
28 May 2011
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A group of American researchers, based at the University of Washington (UW), and at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (UNC) has recently managed to take an important step forward in its quest of finding a method of converting methane gas into a liquid fuel. The innovation could see a lot more uses for m... |
23 October 2009
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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
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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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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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Toshiba has recently taken the media player concept to the next level. The giant company has demonstrated their latest Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC) technology at CEATEC 2007. During the same annual event, Toshiba has come up with its brand new prototype version of the methanol powered Gigabeat multimedia player. ... |
11 October 2007
05:04 GMT |
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