Ion Tiger, Fuel Cell Powered UAV Sets Flight Time Record
Ion Tiger is a hydrogen-powered fuel cell unmanned air vehicle (UAV) developed by the Naval Research Laboratory . It has set an unofficial flight endurance record by flying 23 hours and 17 minutes at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
Mobion Methanol Micro Fuel Cell v4: New Energy Density Records
The Mobion methanol fuel cell engine has surpassed its previous performance, with the fourth version reaching a power density of 84mW/cm², while maintaining its fuel efficiency of 1800Wh/kg, or 1.4Wh/cc.
AFC Developing Cheaper Fuel Cells Immune to CO2 Poisoning
UK-based company AFC Energy has developed an alkaline-based hydrogen fuel cell technology and tested it at a chlor-alkai plant in Germany, where they demonstrated it can generate electricity and feed it to the grid as efficiently as older, more expensive platinum-based fuel cells.
New Ceramic Material Makes Fuel Cells Capable of Using Normal Fuels
Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology have invented a new type of ceramic material that could widen the uses of SOFCs, so they could also be used with a wide range of liquid or gaseous fuels, without the need of separating hydrogen or cleaning them.
Toyota's Future Fuel Cell Vehicles Able to Work at Minus 37 degrees Celsius
Fuel cell vehicles have been criticized by a lot of car manufacturers around the world. Still there are some that think they are able...
NASA to Make Its Future Rocket Fuel From Water and Aluminum
At first, I found it surprising, but when I did some research and had a second though about it, I learned that when NASA or any other space agency launches a space ship, it consumes about 773 tons of ammonium perchlorate, and releases some 230 tons of hydrochloric acid immediately after launch.
XX55: Military Designed Methanol Fuel Cell Lasting for Weeks
The company that produced the XX25 methanol fuel cell we talked about last year, Ultracell, came up with an improved version of it, the XX55. This fuel cell outputs 55watts at 4 amps (10-30 volts), and can last for days or even weeks on a single methane cartridge.
The Napa Winery Making Hydrogen from Grape Wastewater
Napa Wine Company in Oakville found an interesting way of producing hydrogen by using the winery's own wastewater, using naturally-occurring bacteria and a small amount of electricity to extract hydrogen the organic material they usually throw away,with a generator the size of a refrigerator.
Scientists Researching Fuel Cell Powered by Sugars
Researchers from Brigham Young University have a plan to make different fuel cells than those we actually know, and turn them into something very efficient and reliable. Their goal is to make a cheap fuel cell with a cheap catalyst, which can be even more efficient than a PEM and which can use something easier to make and store than hydrogen and which has no net emissions.
Clean Hydrogen Obtained Through Thermolysis of Water by H2 Power Systems
H2 Power Systems, based in the UK, has designed an on-site and on-demand hydrogen producing system based not on electrolysis, but on thermolysis, which is the splitting of water at very high temperatures.
