Posts Tagged Hydrogen Power

Hydrogen Tank Exploded in Green Fuel Station. Is The Technology Safe Enough for Cars?

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on August 28, 2010

Hydrogen, the most clean fuel in the universe, has been seen with skepticism by many. Although bad events involving exploded hydrogen tanks are rare, Monroe County’s (NY) hydrogen station on Scottsville Road experienced the explosion of two tanks filled with hydrogen.

Scientists Discover How to Extract Hydrogen From Waste Vegetable Oils

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on July 27, 2010

Waste vegetable oils have previously been used to fuel older diesel engines, but until now nobody succeeded to extract the hydrogen in them and to sequester the carbon dioxide with cheap and affordable technologies. Leeds University scientists have broken the ice and discovered an energy efficient method of extracting both hydrogen and carbon dioxide from otherwise disposable vegetable oils.

70 Mumbai Buses Running on Hydrogen Mixed With CNG by End of 2010

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Biogas, Hydrogen Power on June 1, 2010

India’s largest bus manufacturer, Ashok Leyland, is going to implement a 6-liter engine that will run on clean natural gas (CNG) enriched with hydrogen, making it the first bus powered by an internal combustion engine aided by hydrogen.

New Catalyst for Electrolysis Reduces Costs by 97% and Increases Hydrogen Production Fourfold

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on May 19, 2010

Hydrogen, the cleanest energy storage in the Universe, is most of the time associated with high costs, although it is extracted from water, which is the cheapest yet the most precious element to life. Extracting hydrogen from water is done through a method called electrolysis, but doing electrolysis efficiently requires the usage of catalysts such as platinum, which is very expensive.

Daniel Nocera Coming Back With Better Material for Splitting Water

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on May 14, 2010

Daniel Nocera, a face we see more and more often on the stage of alternative energy, along with postdoctoral researcher Mircea Dinca and graduate student Yogesh Surendranath, discovered a material that can work efficiently and sustainably as an oxygen electrode for Nocera’s wider research in water splitting by using electricity. This subject has caught a [...]

Hopes for Solar-Powered Hydrogen by New Virus-Based Artificial Photosynthesis System

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power, New Inventions, Solar Power on April 12, 2010

A team of researchers from the MIT, led by Professor Angela Belcher, used a modified virus as a biological scaffold for assembling the nanoscale components needed to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The bacterial virus is called “M13″, and it’s said to be harmless.

On-Demand Hydrogen Production System for Commercial Use Released

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on April 8, 2010

eHydrogen Solutions, a company specialized in the development of on-demand hydrogen power stations, issued a press release announcing that they launched the “H2-Reactor Development Project”. The H2-Reactor uses water as the hydrogen source, is self-contained and has an alloy of aluminum or magnesium as the reactive material (to get the hydrogen out of the oxygen bond).

Zinc Oxide Crystal Acting as Piezoelectric Material To Get Hydrogen From Water

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power, Piezoelectric on March 23, 2010

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have just discovered that crystals of zinc oxide, if submerged, absorb its vibrations and act like a piezoelectric material, developing areas of strong negative and positive charges.

Energy-Efficient Way to Produce Hydrogen from Noise and Vibrations

Posted by Mike Sandru in Hydrogen Power on March 16, 2010

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a new way to produce hydrogen by using ambient noise to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel. The process harvests small amounts of waste energy in the form of stray vibrations and noise from the environment to break the chemical bonds in water and generate hydrogen and oxygen.

Aquafairy's New Range of Cheap Fuel Cells for Portable Electronic Devices

Posted by Mike Sandru in Green Electronics, Hydrogen Power on March 13, 2010

Today, the commercially available devices powered by fuel cells are still pretty pricey. But Kyoto-based Aquafairy has presented a new range of affordable fuel cells for portable electronic devices.

Scientists Develop a Quantum-Dot Process to Split Water and Generate Hydrogen

Posted by Cristi in Hydrogen Power on February 9, 2010

Fuel cells can be used in various applications such as spacecraft, remote weather stations, large parks, rural locations, military applications and automotive industry. Fuel cells have hydrogen as the base element for their power.

Daniel Nocera's Sun Catalytix Receives $7.1 Million for Developing Photosynthesis System

Posted by Cristi in Hydrogen Power, Solar Power on November 24, 2009

Daniel G. Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the inventor of the most important solar energy system of the century. His 2007 designed system is able to create cheap solar energy based on the photosynthesis process.

Hydrogen On-Demand System Boosts Van Mileage by 94%

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power, Video on October 18, 2009

This man (a retired school teacher) says he applied what many others on the internet describe as “on-board hydrogen generation”, with a couple of jars, some electrodes and potassium hydroxide.

South Korea's First Trash-Powered Hydrogen Plant Running by 2010

Posted by Cristi in Hydrogen Power on September 7, 2009

South Korea is taking their first steps towards hydrogen production. Government has signed a memorandum of agreement with oil refiner SK Energy and SK Engineering & Construction to build the world’s first trash-powered hydrogen station. Both companies are subsidiaries of South Korean conglomerate SK Group. The plant will be able to extract hydrogen from methane emitted by landfills.

Florida Harvesting the Gulf Stream for Electricity and Hydrogen

Posted by Cristi in Hydrogen Power, Wave power on August 2, 2009

Florida’s needs of electricity have made scientists think about never energy solutions. The needs of 4-7 million homes are so big that conventional energy would be too expensive and pollutant to still be used.