The Greening of Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Sunday, March 30, 2008
"But what if the hydrogen could be produced with alternative energy sources? That's a real possibility, as electricity generated by solar or wind power can be used to produce hydrogen from water through the process of electrolysis. It's currently very expensive and not terribly efficient, but it can be done. A more direct method—and one which researchers have gotten a step closer to achieving—would be through artificial photosynthesis." More: http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2008-03/greening-hydrogen-fuel-cells
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Hydrogen Refueling Feasible 'Within Months'
"ITM Power Plc, a fuel cell and electrolyser development company, and design/engineering group Roush Technologies Ltd have signed a co-operative agreement that 'could see carbon dioxide-free commercial vehicles being marketed in Britain within months.'" More: http://www.channel4.com/4car/news/news-story.jsp?news_id=17270
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CleanEnergy Creates 370-Mile Hydrogen Fuel System
Friday, March 28, 2008
"C.En (Clean Energy)'s scientists have developed new technology that could enable automobile manufacturers to produce and sell cars that use hydrogen power. The report said that the deal breaker for hydrogen so far hasn't been with regard to producing the fuel; it's been getting the fuel into the car and storing it in a fuel tank. Instead of liquid hydrogen, which is unstable, "C.En's tank uses hydrogen gas, collected from the environment (meaning that it's not produced from fossil fuels) and enclosed in a thin but leakproof glass container." The report said that liquid hydrogen usually requires a large and heavy tank that can only hold about 20 gallons, which is enough for just 150 miles. C.En's tank can store 60 gallons worth—meaning about 370 miles between fill-ups—and the cells could be bought and sold at any automotive or discount store." More
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Suzuki and Intelligent Energy commit to hydrogen motorcycle
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Army looks to hydrogen to lighten soldiers' load
Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are developing a portable, hydrogen-generating power system to power everything from laptops to communications gear for soldiers in the battlefield. The system transforms jet fuel into hydrogen and will relive soldiers from having to carry heavy loads of batteries. Individual soldiers carry between 20 to 40 pounds of batteries on standard four-day missions. The batteries power soldiers' personal portable electronics, such as GPS systems and night-vision goggles. More
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Storing Hydrogen With CNTs
Monday, March 24, 2008
"Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) researchers have surpassed by a surprising margin the Department of Energy's goal for storing hydrogen within a unique material called carbon nanotubes. The pioneering result, published in the American Chemical Society's Nano Letters, brings us one step closer to realizing hydrogen as a source of energy." http://www.physorg.com/news123782520.html
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Hydrogen on Demand Using Aluminium & Gallium
"Purdue professor Jerry Woodall, center, and researchers Charles Allen and Jeffrey Ziebarth display hydrogen gas created by adding water to an alloy of aluminum and gallium. A Purdue University engineer and National Medal of Technology winner says he's ready and able to start a revolution in clean energy. Professor Jerry Woodall and students have invented a way to use an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water — a process that he thinks could replace gasoline as well as its pollutants and emissions tied to global warming." More
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San Mateo County merges onto Hydrogen Highway
"Saturday's "Ride into the Future" transportation fair in East Palo Alto featured the area's first hydrogen powered shuttle, funded in part by the California Air Resources Board. A $250,000 grant for the state's Hydrogen Highway program sponsored the shuttle that will take residents to stops between the Palo Alto Caltrain Station and East Palo Alto. The new shuttle, a Ford E-450, is powered by a supercharged 6.8-liter V-10 engine modified to run exclusively on hydrogen." http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage8584.html
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Video of Jack Nicholson's 1978 Hydrogen Powered Chevrolet
http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2008/03/21/081639.html
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InnovaTek's Hand-sized Microreactor Converts Liquid Fuel Into Hydrogen
Saturday, March 22, 2008
"After years of work, [InnovaTek] is finally testing its hand-sized microreactor that can reportedly "convert virtually any liquid fuel into hydrogen, producing a portable hydrogen stream for use in adjoining fuel-cells." More
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InnovaTek's Hand-sized Microreactor Converts Liquid Fuel Into Hydrogen
Friday, March 21, 2008
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Can Buckyballs Store Hydrogen?
"The molecules can store around 8 percent of their weight in hydrogen at room temperature, Rice found. The federal government, meanwhile, has set a goal of finding materials that can store 6 percent of its weight in hydrogen. The density of the hydrogen is about the same density that hydrogen would be held at the center of Jupiter. "Based on our calculations, it appears that some buckyballs are capable of holding volumes of hydrogen so dense as to be almost metallic," said Boris Yakobson, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Rice, in a prepared statement." More
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Hydrogen Could Reduce Road Transport Oil Consumption by 40% by 2050
Thursday, March 20, 2008
"Using hydrogen in place of regular diesel would reduce the total oil consumption by the road transport sector by 40 per cent between now and 2050, according to a Hyways programme funded by the EU's research directorate." More
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Florida Airport Tests Hydrogen Engines
"Some Florida amusement park visitors may enjoy space-themed roller-coasters, but the first vehicle they board at Orlando International Airport may be the most futuristic ride of their vacation. The airport is testing four Ford shuttle vans equipped with internal combustion engines modified to run on hydrogen instead of gasoline." More
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Purdue Energy Center Conference to Focus on Hydrogen
"Researchers from around the world will meet at Purdue University for a two-day conference in April to discuss innovative hydrogen-based energy concepts. Talks and poster presentations will focus on various hydrogen-related technologies, including those that could power future cars and fuel cells and generate electricity for homes and businesses. Hydrogen Symposium 2008, April 24 and 25 in Stewart Center, is sponsored by the Energy Center at Purdue's Discovery Park. The conference will feature keynote lectures, presentations and poster sessions dealing with various aspects of hydrogen production, distribution and storage." More
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Kyoto Starts Fuel Cell Project Using Hydrogen Obtained From Waste
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
"While waste products can be used to obtain biogas or ethanol, the Japanese have found some other use for them. The city of Kyoto has announced a research project that uses hydrogen produced from biomass such as food waste and used cooking oil. The plans are far from modest, with a working prototype expected in 2010 and a fuel cell system to generate electricity from hydrogen produced at the biogas plant by 2013." More
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Eden Energy Advances Practicality of Hydrogen Cars
"Eden Energy Ltd., through its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary Hythane Company LLC, today announced it has received a U.S. patent for its cryogenic storage vessels for liquid hydrogen. Among the applications, the new technology will advance the practicality of hydrogen cars by optimizing energy storage, reducing or eliminating the need for bulky lithium ion batteries. The main use for this technology, called Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES), will be in the automotive industry. Whether used for traditional hybrids, electric cars, or hydrogen combustion engines, SMES will capture and use energy from the vehicle braking system to reduce or eliminate the use of large, expensive batteries. By combining fuel storage and the battery into a single unit, the range and efficiency of alternative fuel vehicles will be increased, and fuel can be stored in a much smaller space." More
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Air Products to Fuel Hydrogen Bus Fleet
Monday, March 17, 2008
"Air Products has signed a contract worth £3.4m with Transport for London to provide hydrogen fuel for the city's planned fleet of hydrogen buses. The contract also requires Air Products to build and maintain the hydrogen-refuelling infrastructure for the buses, which are expected to be in service by 2010." More
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Jason Bateman Jumps Into A New BMW Hydrogen 7
Sunday, March 16, 2008
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Hydrogen Power Fuels Miami House
"Schafer's cell, called Hydrastax 5000, is expected to be on the market by fall, said Lexie Weaver, Schafer's wife and director of operations for American Hydrogen Corp. Hydrastax 5000 produces five kilowatts of electricity that can power the average house or serve as emergency power supply. Orders already have come in, company officers say. Whole house generators powered by propane or natural gas generally produce between 10 and 20 kilowatts of power or more." More
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ITM to Explore Potential of Diesel-Hydrogen Hybrid
Saturday, March 15, 2008
"Alternative energy innovator, ITM Power has announced a new collaboration to assess the potential of using technology combining diesel and hydrogen in a co-combustion engine which could revolutionise the trucking industry. It said that under the terms of the contract, Bi-Fuels is committed to develop and test technologies for Hydrogen:Diesel co-combustion in common-rail engines for ITM which are applicable to the EoE firm's proprietary materials and processes." More
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Mazda Hydrogen RE Hybrid
Friday, March 14, 2008
"The Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid (known to the U.S as the Mazda5) is equipped with a rotary engine with a dual-fuel system that allows the driver to select between gasoline or hydrogen fuel with just the flick of a switch. The hybrid unit and rotary engine are transversely mounted at the front of the car in a front-wheel drive layout with the high-voltage battery beneath the second row of seats and the hydrogen tank beside the last row of seats." More
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Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens in White Plains
"WITH a history of using alternative-fuel vehicles long before it became chic, White Plains now is the Northeast hub — and one of three cities nationwide — for a model program designed to put hydrogen-powered cars in consumers' hands. In partnership with General Motors and a division of Shell Oil, the city has opened on its property the only hydrogen refueling station in the metropolitan area equipped for public use, G.M. and city officials said." More
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New Process for Producing hydrogen fuel wins top competition award
Thursday, March 13, 2008
"Business owner Kurt Koehler took first place in a local business plan competition for a process that will make it easier to produce, store and transport hydrogen gas as an alternative fuel - an invention that could have a significant impact, given the skyrocketing cost of gasoline. Koehler presented the process for producing hydrogen gas by adding water to an aluminum alloy to a panel of judges Feb. 8 at the Brandywine Complex, in Monticello. Koehler, whose company Al- GalCo plans to market the product, said the invention has several applications, including in-home power generators, replacing lithium batteries, and even providing an alternative to gasoline and diesel fuel." More
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The Next Solar Boom May Prove to be Solar Hydrogen
"Sundrop uses a process it called Solar Reduction of Carbon Dioxide, or Solarec, to break down the greenhouse gas CO2 into its constituent parts. In a nutshell, Solarec uses mirrors to focus sunlight, just as solar thermal processes do.However, instead of heating up water, Solarec focuses on CO2, heating it up enough to make the molecule split. One of the byproducts, carbon monoxide, is then combined with water to make hydrogen. The waste heat is converted to electricity, and the process can also be used to make methanol or desalinate water." More
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Super Bacteria Ramp Up Hydrogen Production
Monday, March 10, 2008
"A team of researchers in the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur has claimed of making a significant breakthrough in isolating a hydrogen-producing bacterial strain that produces 40 per cent more hydrogen than other bacterial strains. The development is considered to be significant in the production of hydrogen gas, an efficient and clean fuel. According to Prof Debatrata Das, who is heading the research team, Enterobacter cloacae can produce about 3.85 moles of hydrogen from one mole of the substrate, which is very close to the theoretical limit of 4 moles of hydrogen during anaerobic fermentation." More
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Non-explosive Hydrogen Storage
"One promising approach [to safely store hydrogen] is to chemically combine it with another element to form a solid which can later be broken down again. This can store a very high density of hydrogen in a relatively small volume. However, the hydrogen's release has to be carefully controlled when the compound is broken down or an explosion could occur. Now Zhigang Fak, a chemist at the University of Utah, and colleagues say they have found a way to control the release of hydrogen by these breakdown reactions. They store hydrogen by reacting it with lithium to form lithium hydride and lithium hydroxide, and can later controllably release the gas using various catalysts such as platinum." More
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Zero-Emission Vehicles
Friday, March 07, 2008
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QuantumSphere Speaks of Homemade Hydrogen
"QuantumSphere has reportedly figured out a way to "make hydrogen at home from distilled water and ultimately bring the cost of hydrogen fuel cells in line with that of fossil fuels." More specifically, the outfit claims to have "perfected the manufacture of highly reactive catalytic nanoparticle coatings that could up the efficiency of electrolysis, the technique that generates hydrogen from water." More
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Turning Wind Energy into Hydrogen
Thursday, March 06, 2008
"A demonstration project in Minot, ND to turn wind energy into hydrogen is getting off to a slow start, much like the hydrogen industry as a whole. But the project is finally in motion, and hydrogen fuel cells may not be far behind, Ron Rabenitsch with Basin Electric Power Cooperative told state legislators in Minot Wednesday." More
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HyPower Fuel Reports Positive Response For Hydrogen Systems
"HyPower said that its H2 Reactor is an electrolyzer that uses electrolysis to create hydrogen and oxygen gases from water. It can be used on-board for injection into any internal combustion engine, according to the firm. The firm said that interested parties range from fleet operators to single vehicle owners intent in saving on their fuel usage. The demand for the products is reportedly more than the supply, even with an increase of 10% in their retail prices." More
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Morgan's Hydrogen LifeCar
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
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A Call for Hydrogen Fueling Stations
Monday, March 03, 2008
"Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has called on the UK Government to create hydrogen fuel filling stations to help the fight against climate change. The Virgin chairman also appealed to governments world wide to build hydrogen garages." More
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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Limos From Branson, GM
"Today, Sir Richard Branson continued his campaign to have his Virgin Atlantic Airways known as the world's most eco-friendly airlines by announcing a new partnership with General Motors and its "Project Driveway" alternative fuel test drive program. ...[H]e announced that Virgin will now use Chevrolet Equinox hydrogen fuel cell vehicles for its complimentary ground transfer service for upper class passengers at Los Angeles International Airport." More
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Fuel Cells Make Power for Homes in Japan
"The fuel cell is about the size of a suitcase and sits outside the house. In the process of producing electricity, the fuel cell generates enough heat to heat water for the home. The process produces less greenhouse gas per watt than traditional generation and no energy is wasted transporting the electricity." More
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QuantumSphere NiFe Nanoparticle Electrodes Push Electrolyzer Efficiency to 85%
Sunday, March 02, 2008
"QuantumSphere has demonstrated production of hydrogen and oxygen in an alkaline electrolyzer with 85% percent efficiency under ambient conditions, making it a commercially viable replacement for fossil fuel-based production methods (e.g., steam methane reforming), according to the company. The DOE 2010 target for the efficiency of electrolysis is 75%." More
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The BMW Hydrogen 7
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BMW Hydrogen 7 Commercials
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