Teen inventor plans to unveil hybrid engine
Monday, May 12, 2008

"With rising gas prices becoming a big concern, Santana High School senior Josh Wesolowski plans to unveil an invention he hopes will hold an answer to the energy riddle. Debuting next week at the Inventors Showcase in San Diego, the contraption, constructed from an old lawn-mower engine, is a "hybrid" engine that runs on four different types of fuel: gasoline, propane, methanol and hydrogen."  More

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Improved Hydrogen Extraction Technique

Scientists have succeeded in the controlled extraction of hydrogen from formic acid-without the need for the high-temperature reforming process usually involved in other hydrogen generation systems.  More

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GM building a future beyond petroleum

"General Motors Corp.'s vice chairman for global product development Bob Lutz has called the Chevy Volt a game-changer, and the rest of the company shares his urgency to get the electric vehicle to market by late 2010. GM has more than 200 engineers and 50 designers working on the production model, with another 400 people working on subsystems and components. But the Volt isn't the only player on GM's bench." More

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Hydrogen-power vision hits road
Monday, May 05, 2008

"Fred Humes shows where the hydrogen enters the modified Chevrolet Silverado the Center for Hydrogen Research brought to the Tomorrow is Today Workforce & Education workshop in Myrtle Beach." More

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Government of Canada Invests Over $13.6 Million in Vancouver's World-Class Fuel Cell Industry

"The Government of Canada today announced a $13.6 million investment in the National Research Council (NRC)'s Vancouver-based fuel cell and hydrogen industry and officially opened the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Gateway - a technology demonstration and exhibit centre showcasing Canada's world-leading fuel cell and hydrogen industry. Representing the Honourable Jim Prentice, Industry Minister and Minister responsible for NRC, the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, reconfirmed the Government of Canada's support for the work NRC and its partners have been doing to catalyze science and technology-based partnerships in Vancouver's fuel cell and hydrogen technologies cluster."  More

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Learn About Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Friday, May 02, 2008

"Some are afraid of the hydrogen vehicle concept, so in this article we look at exactly what a hydrogen vehicle is and how it runs. One way a hydrogen car makes energy is by using a fuel cell to create electricity. A fuel cell is an electrochemical energy conversion device, a mechanism that changes hydrogen and oxygen into water; that water is then used to create electricity, which is used to power electric motors." More

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Dehydrated Hydrogen -- Just add water!

"... when raw aluminum touches water it hijacks the oxygen molecules simultaneously forming alumina (Al2O3) and releasing heat and hydrogen gas, as Jerry Woodall was startled to discover while working as a young IBM semiconductor engineer in the 1960s."  More

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