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How to Produce Hydrogen From an Aluminum Soda Can and Water

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:23:48 +0000

Here’s how you can produce hydrogen to power cars, homes, or even toys. Hydrogen is the cleanest energy carrier in the universe, and is also easily obtainable from recycled soda cans and water that you can find virtually anywhere. The process sitting at the base of this experiment is a simple one you probably learned […]

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New Aluminum Alloy Helps Generate Clean Water and Cheap Electricity

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 04 May 2011 16:07:12 +0000

A new aluminum alloy could soon clean out water and at the same time generate electricity for afflicted areas. Purdue University researchers Jerry Woodall and Go Choi have been working on the alloy of aluminum, gallium, indium and tin that could split polluted or salt water into hydrogen and oxygen and then reunite them to generate electricity and pure water.

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Molybdenum-Based Catalyst Discovered as Cheap Alternative to Platinum for Hydrogen Production

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:40:29 +0000

There have been many researchers seeking the perfect catalyst for dissociating water into hydrogen and oxygen. Xile Hu and his team from the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland have recently tinkered with a cheap catalyst made from molybdenum.

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Leaf-Mimicking Catalyst Inventor Signs Huge Contract With Tata Group for Hydrogen-From-Water Device

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:31:58 +0000

MIT professor Daniel Nocera, the inventor of a type of electrolysis that mimics the plants photosynthesis, and Ratan Tata, the CEO of the Indian Tata group, have signed a funding agreement allowing the Tata group to commercialize Nocera's invention which produces power from water.

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Black Titanium Dioxide Helps Hydrogen Ouf of Water, Berkeley Scientists Find

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:10:49 +0000

They used titanium dioxide (TiO2) whose lattice structure had been modified by changing its ordered pattern. They did that by hydrogenating the TiO2 crystals and found out that the disordered titanium dioxide they obtained was black, hence the idea that it absorbs light much better than the white one.

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Concentrated Sunlight Generating Hydrogen from Water and Splitting Carbon Dioxide

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:34:28 +0000

I've known for years that solar concentrators do a good job at harnessing heat. You may also use them to generate electricity, but it's not their best job possible. A recent article published in the journal Science shows how solar concentrators can be used to directly extract hydrogen from water, without any middlemen such as photovoltaic panels and electricity.

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Boats Than Run On Hydrogen From Seawater Made Possible With Aluminum and Liquid Alloy

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:29:49 +0000

It's known from high school that aluminum can split water in hydrogen and oxygen, with aluminum hydroxide as byproduct. A team of Purdue University researchers has developed a mechanism that uses this reaction between aluminum, water and a liquid alloy to extract hydrogen directly from seawater and use it in boats and ships.

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Daniel Nocera Coming Back With Better Material for Splitting Water

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:32:29 +0000

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 […]

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

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:18:51 +0000

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.

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An Engine Fueled by Hydrogen Obtained from Water

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:49:32 +0000

Ex-President Bush has made a challenge to the American people to begin running cars on hydrogen as soon as possible, and has allocated over one billion dollars for research to find out how to do that. In a suburb of Toronto, Canada, a small company called Rothman Technologies, Inc., has in fact discovered not one […]

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Hydrogen From Water – 3 Production Methods

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:26:54 +0000

Getting hydrogen from water is one of today’s hottest and fastest-evolving areas in the renewable energy world. The basic methods for hydrogen production, though, have remained the same at their core, and everything is now innovated around the same old principles. 1. Electrolysis Electrolysis is the technical name for using electricity to split water into its constituent elements, […]

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Sunlight used to produce hydrogen from water

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:58:25 +0000

Solar Hydrogen Energy Corporation (SHEC Labs) reported on July 6th that they have demonstrated the production of Hydrogen from water using their proprietary Solar Thermal Chemical Process. The Hydrogen production was accomplished at the APS (Arizona Public Service) Solar Test and Research Facility in Tempe, Arizona on June 8th and again June 28th, 2004. Utilizing […]

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