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H2 Energy Offers Affordable Hydrogen Generator For Home Use

Mila Luleva — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:58:25 +0000

Low-cost hydrogen generator from H2 Energy Renaissance is coming soon to wipe out fossil fuels. It is truly remarkable how clean energy technologies and inventions that seemed like taken from a Sci-Fi movie just 10 years ago, are now on the market and within everyone’s reach. Developments happen fast, with better and more powerful technologies appearing […]

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Daimler Partners Ford and Nissan to Develop Hydrogen Vehicles

Benji Jerew — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:19:05 +0000

Hydrogen vehicles are more than just a dream that won’t die, but are getting closer to production than ever before. Hydrogen just could be the perfect fuel, and advances in production of hydrogen as well as hydrogen fuel cell [HFC] technology have made it possible to realize a clean transportation future. Just last week, Toyota […]

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Toyota Licenses Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology to BMW

Benji Jerew — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:01:58 +0000

Hydrogen fuel cells [HFC], which convert pure hydrogen and oxygen into water and electricity, is nothing new. As a matter of fact, the technology exists as far back as the late 1930s. Fuel cell technology was also used to generate electricity on the NASA Space Shuttle program until it was dismantled last year. While being […]

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Hydrogen Vehicles: The Dream Lives On

Benji Jerew — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:09:29 +0000

Hydrogen [H2] as a power source has been under on-and-off development and use in various sectors since the 1900s, but has its own special considerations when it comes to storage and use. The high reactivity of H2 makes it an excellent fuel, but also difficult to store and deliver. Combustion of H2 also produces no […]

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Toyota’s Planning for a Greener Future

Benji Jerew — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:15:33 +0000

Toyota Motor Corporation, building on its success with global class-leading hybrid technology in the Prius lineup, eventually used that technology to convert other Toyota and Lexus models to Hybrid Synergy Drive. Today, Toyota Hybrid Electric Vehicles [HEV] are the most driven and recognized on the road. In keeping with its class-leading fuel economy and putting […]

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BMW to Use GM and Toyota Technology for Future Hydrogen-Powered Cars

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:25:23 +0000

BMW is seemingly looking for ties in the auto industry with Toyota and General Motors to develop future battery and hydrogen fuel cell-powered EVs, says Motorauthority.com, quoting the German Wirtschaftswoche (Business Week). So GM’s Volt technology may not be officially a secret any longer, and Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive could enhance the power of all […]

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Vitamin B12 Helps Scientists Build New Cheap Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:08:42 +0000

Vitamin B12 has recently been determined as one of the many solutions for cheaper hydrogen fuel cells, that convert hydrogen into electricity and have water as their only output. Because they currently use platinum, hydrogen fuel cells are being expensive – much over the price of lithium ion batteries, for example. The research, performed by […]

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Iron "Veins" Inside Magnesium Could Make the Perfect Solution for Hydrogen Storage

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:04:41 +0000

A principle that mother nature uses since millions of years ago may just be the solution to an efficient hydrogen storage material, as hydrogen is the ultimate energy carrier, because burning it emits nothing but water. So far, the few hydrogen-powered cars that are not even on the market yet, but merely as leased test […]

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Hydrogen Makes Metals Brittle: Fraunhofer Researchers Improving Material Technologies

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:53:47 +0000

Being the core of the dispute between early electric car adopters, hydrogen may be the solution to the electric movement, eventually even beating batteries by cleanliness. The technology behind hydrogen powered cars poses a few issues, though.

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Boosting Power Output of Fuel Cell Systems Using Flowcath Technology

Cristi — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:59:16 +0000

Taking into consideration some field experts, fuel cells seem to be the future in alternative energy. The researchers try to prove with every chance they got that fuel cells which can provide the required energy for a certain application and that they are very reliable. ACAL Energy (Cheshire, UK) has recently developed a liquid cathode […]

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Hydrogen Created by Artificial Photosynthesis Process

Cristi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:12:59 +0000

A team of scientists from the University of Rochester has a tough mission creating a hydrogen fuel cell that not only burns cleanly but the fuel itself has to be created from clean sources. They have developed a process that uses artificial photosynthesis and nanotubes to finalize this project.

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New Ceramic Material Makes Fuel Cells Capable of Using Normal Fuels

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:28:40 +0000

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.

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Toyota's Future Fuel Cell Vehicles Able to Work at Minus 37 degrees Celsius

Cristi — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:52:59 +0000

Fuel cell vehicles have been criticized by a lot of car manufacturers around the world. Still there are some that think they are able to transform the world’s thinking into a GREEN ONE and prove that fuel cell vehicles are as reliable as any gas cars available on the market. This year’s Air Resources Board’s […]

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NASA to Make Its Future Rocket Fuel From Water and Aluminum

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:46:47 +0000

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.

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The Napa Winery Making Hydrogen from Grape Wastewater

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:20:14 +0000

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.

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Clean Hydrogen Obtained Through Thermolysis of Water by H2 Power Systems

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:07:50 +0000

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.

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New Discovery Could Make Platinum Fuel Cells Much More Durable

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:31:04 +0000

Engineering assistant prof. Dane Morgan and Ph.D. student Edward (Ted) Holby, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that making the fuel cells from very small platinum nanoparticles decreases their lifetime. Making them bigger is, though, better.

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Hy-Alfa: First Three-Wheeler Powered by a Hydrogen-Fueled ICE

Mike Sandru — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:26:53 +0000

The company Mahindra & Mahindra, based in India, have developed world first hydrogen-powered three-wheeler called Hy-Alfa.

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New Hydrogen Storage from Metal Alloy 40% Lighter Than Batteries

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:35:17 +0000

Robin Gremaud, a researcher from Netherlands, found out through experimentation that an alloy of the metals magnesium, titanium and nickel is absorbing hydrogen very well. What's most interesting about his discovery is that the three metals form a very light alloy, about 40% lighter than a Lithium Ion battery pack at the same size (for example, a Prius battery weights 317 kg, while this hydrogen tank would only weight 200 kg).

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The Ultimate Hydrogen Storage – Made of Corncobs!

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:01:03 +0000

One thing is to be noted here: one gram of carbon made from corncobs has its molecular internal surface equal to a football field, plus it has been proved that boron doping will further increase this capacity in great amounts.

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Mazda Hydrogen Car – to be Tested on Japan’s Roads

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:19:00 +0000

Mazda is in the process of testing a car that runs on both hydrogen and gasoline (it's a dual fuel system). They're allowed to test the car on the public roads from Japan.

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