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New Solar Materials Could Lower Hydrogen Energy Cost

Danny Harper — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 07:12:35 +0000

Up to this point, solar has made big gains in efficiency, but nothing near what is needed to effectively compete with fossil fuels. While parity is still a ways off, researchers at Stanford have found that by making materials more resilient, producing hydrogen energy through solar could become cheap enough to compete with its dirty counterpart. […]

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NTU Scientists Use Artificial Leaves Technology to Split Water and Generate Hydrogen

Mike Sandru — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:22:15 +0000

A team of researchers at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have recently set up a new laboratory (the first in Asia) that will be used to convert water into hydrogen fuel. As the scientists said, the development of this technology may reduce the cost of using solar power to the same price as using conventional energy sources.

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Photocatalyst Used For Hydrogen Generation Awarded by University of Queensland

Mike Sandru — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:35:26 +0000

This year's UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award, consisting in $85,000 UQ, was won by Dr Yong Wang, from UQ's School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering. Dr Wang will dedicate his research to develop powerful photocatalysts that increase the efficiency of hydrogen production.

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

Mike Sandru — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:20:52 +0000

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.

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New Method for Extracting Hydrogen from Green Algae

Cristi — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:24:25 +0000

Analyzing a single-celled green alga, researchers have found a fermentation process which was not known before that can revolution hydrogen production. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a soil or fresh water single-celled alga, produces its own energy by fermentation when it has no source of oxygen.

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World's Largest Fuel Cell Town is Built in Japan

Cristi — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:58:45 +0000

The ÃƒÂ¢€Ã…â€œFukuoka Hydrogen Town" project could be the beginning of what organizers say will be the largest hydrogen-powered city in the world.

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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered by Alternative Sources

Cristi — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:41:09 +0000

The fact that hydrogen fuel cells are powered by gas coming from fossil fuel made Japanese scientists invent other alternative sources of hydrogen like dough and sewage.

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Home Made Refueling Station for Honda FCX Clarity

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:46:26 +0000

It is essentially an electric car. Everyone's talking about their fears that they don't have hydrogen refueling stations around, forgetting that we have water all around us.

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