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New Vanadium Oxide Fuel Cell Can Both Generate and Store Energy

Maria Reyes — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:04:28 +0000

It is now entirely possible for electrical gadgets to keep on running after fuel is depleted. Materials scientists at Harvard have developed a solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) that uses hydrogen as fuel to generate electricity, but can store electrochemical energy like a battery as well. Recent advances in low-temperature operation allowed the thin-film SOFC to […]

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Revolutionary Butane-Powered Backup Charger to Hit Market This Year

Mike Sandru — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:09:38 +0000

A 10-year-old MIT spinoff, Lilliputian Systems is now ready to commercialize a portable charger that, if priced correctly, will revolutionize batteries and backup charging for mobile devices. It runs on butane and contains a revolutionary fuel cell that transforms the liquid into electricity. The device will be retailed through Brookstone and will probably hit the market […]

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MIT Researchers Discover Perovskite Sheets Can Improve Solid Oxide Fuel Cells' Efficiency

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:22:59 +0000

Sometimes, materials in bulk sizes exhibit properties totally different than when they are sliced in pieces only a few molecules wide. A news report from the MIT says that prof. Yang Shao-Horn and a team of researchers have discovered how a very thin sheet of a material called "strontium-substituted lanthanum cobalt perovskite," aka LSC, can help solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) produce a lot more electricity from the same amount of fuel.

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Bloom Energy Releases 100 KW Fuel Cell Module Working on Various Fuel Types

Cristi — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:51:37 +0000

Bloom Energy has just brought to the market a new fuel cell system that is able to run on various fuels. While working on natural gas, it can decrease the CO2 emissions by half compared to conventional power sources.

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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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63% Efficient Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Developed by NGK

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:03:41 +0000

Highly efficient hydrogen fuel cells are wanted due to the high price the existing ones have so far. So, being efficient means less money spent on them, and more market share for hydrogen. SOFCs (solid oxide fuel cell) are a type of hydrogen fuel cell that use solid (not liquid) electrolyte to do their job, while being much more efficient.

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Sugar Cube-Sized Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

Mike Sandru — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:20:11 +0000

The world's smallest solid-oxide fuel cell(SOFC), as small as sugar cube, was recently developed by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). The sugar cube-sized SOFC is is operable at 550°C.

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Breakthrough Discovery for Stationary Industrial Fuel Cells – Faster Startups

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:25:28 +0000

In their search to make better fuel cells, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, has discovered a new structure that moves oxygen ions through the cell at substantially lower temperatures than previously thought possible.

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