Nitrogen Doped Carbon Nanotubes Make Fuel Cells Compete with Gasoline Engines
Hydrogen is the most looked for energy storage, but using it is very expensive due to the fuel cell - the device that has to convert the hydrogen into energy, with its only output pure water. Because fuel cells use a platinum based material to work, they are very expensive - about $4,000 for powering a normal passenger car. Solutions are being searched for making fuel cells cheaper, more efficient and more durable, with millions of dollars poured in every year.
Hydrogen Potential Accounts for 20% of World Carbon Reduction by 2050
BONN, Germany — The gradual utilization of Hydrogen as electrical power, transportation, and heating source would provide for a sizeable 20 percent reduction of carbon emissions...
Bionic Leaf Turns Light Into Liquid Biofuel
Scientists at Harvard developed a bionic leaf that can convert light into biomass more efficiently than nature, and then make biofuel.
Artificial photosynthesis has been...
Urine-Powered Generator Delivers Hours of Continuous Electricity
In 2009, the founders of the international organization Maker Faire Africa envisioned an environment where inventors and problem solvers could meet annually to focus on finding...
Singapore to Have First Hydrogen-Electric Bus Powered by Fuel Cells and Batteries
Researchers at Beijing's Tsinghua University and NTU unveiled the first hydrogen-electric bus that will be from now on Singapore roads. Dubbed GreenLite, this eco-friendly bus only emits clean water and has zero carbon emission. Compared with other conventional buses, GreenLite does not run on fossil fuel and is powered by a combustion engine, which makes it very quiet.
Crude Glycerin from Biofuel Production has Great Unexpected Uses
Glycerin in its pure form is used to manufacture soap, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and many other products, but the crude glycerin is an impure form that is unsuitable for these products. But what if we could use it putting back biodiesel in its correct position of green alternative power source?
Toyota Tri-Gen: Water, Electricity and Hydrogen from Bio-Waste
Toyota plans to go all out for its 100% sustainable new project to build the world’s first megawatt-scale carbonate fuel cell power generation plant,...
Artificial Chlorophyll Can Generate Hydrogen from Seawater, UOW Researchers Find
A new way to turn sea water into hydrogen has been developed by scientists at the University of Wollongong, in Australia. It uses artificial...
Genepax (Japanese Water Car Company) Shut to Silence
In June last year, everyone may have heard the buzz about a japanese water car. The buzz was about Genepax, a company from Japan who had claimed that they invented a revolutionary system that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen and then uses a fuel cell to recombine it and generate electricity. That electricity would have driven a car, fact that they demonstrated in front of the press at that time.
General Electric Zero Emissions Bus Combines Li-ion, Na-ion, and HFC
In the last few years, electrified, zero emissions buses have become, if not common, at least accepted in cities around the world. One bus...
