The 5-minutes Rechargeable Hydrogen Tank Invented
Obama's plans for a prosperous hydrogen economy cannot come alive if we don't find the proper storage for the hydrogen, as an energy carrier. The scientific community, funded by their governments and/or private investors, are looking for several solutions to this issue.
Experiment Shows Desalination Plants Could Produce Hydrogen
As the world's potable water resources thin each year, scientists strive to decypher ways to use the immense amounts of water that abound the oceans and seas, and to make them drinkable. All that desalination process consumes energy resources, and that makes water more expensive to produce and drink in some parts of the world.
Linde`s Ionic Hydrogen Compressor Offering Better Fueling Stations
In this new era of alternative fuels, oil companies can't just stand there and watch electricity and hydrogen take the place of their classic beloved petrol consuming machines. The best strategy they found is the most common-sensed one: get involved little by little in the business, adapt to the market's needs, and perhaps change your image to the public from black oil to green leaves.
New Palladium Nanoparticles Making Fuel Cells Better
Nowadays, the cost of a hydrogen fuel cell is mostly increased by the cost of its components, and mostly by platinum. In the search for finding better materials for making fuel cells, researchers have already found alternatives to the expensive platinum a long time ago, but they were not as efficient. One of this substitute materials is palladium - far cheaper and much more abundant, but that didn't have enough surface area to make the fuel cell catalysis efficient.
BMW Develops Hydrogen Powered ICE Based on Diesel Technology
It's a known fact that diesel engines are more efficient than the gasoline ones, and that is because they work a little differently on the ignition side. Diesel engines compress the fuel to a point where it heats and explodes, a process known as self-ignition. On the other hand, diesel engines are still polluting the atmosphere.
Extremely Long Platinum Nanowires Will Improve Fuel Cells
An article published in a paper in the Nano Letters journal, has described the use of nanowires to provide significant increase in both longevity and efficiency of fuel cells. These long platinum nanowires have been developed at the University of Rochester and could improve fuel cells into a commercially viable solution.
Small Methanol Fuel Cells Powering Soldiers’ Equipment
Germans have introduced this week a wearable fuel cell which is based on the award-winning unipolar stack technology design. Called Jenny 600S, the fuel cell delivers 25W for up to 20h. Jenny 600S uses replaceable liquid methanol fuel cartridges and can be worn in a vest.
New Metal-Organic Substance Giving Better Hydrogen Tanks
UK researchers from the University of Nottingham and General Motors from Warren, Michigan, have invented a hydrogen tank material that could replace the current heavy and inefficient pressurized tubes used in today's hydrogen-powered cars.
Cheaper Hydrogen Obtained with Stainless-Steel Brush Cathode
Scientists seem to have found a way to obtain hydrogen from organic matter without the us of the expensive platinum metal. They developed a stainless-steel brush that can help in the microbial electrolysis process reducing the costs in this way up to 80 %.
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.
