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Although Obama’s recent budgeting won’t be allowing more than 40% of what’s been allowed until May 9 for fuel cell research, others don’t find his decision to quit financing this technology as easy as he or his administration does. Furthermore, there are people and institutions actively searching for other investment resources to pursue the fuel [...]

I was glad when I read an article last night describing how Norway opened up a 560 km “hydrogen highway”, and inaugurated it with a hydrogen car rally between Oslo and a North Sea oil hub, Stavanger. The cars were regular Ford Focuses, Priuses, and other well-known, converted either into burning hydrogen directly in their [...]

I have heard about cars running on electricity, on biofuels, and other kinky stuff, but this one surpasses them all. Two brothers, Petru and Gheorghe Bordeianu, from Bacau, Romania, have invented an engine that runs totally on a combination of vinegar, water and a certain “soft drink”.

Sometimes, what we get is not what we expect - at all. For example, a team of scientists from Northeastern University and from NIST discovered by mistake how to produce more solar power by using the residue of a process used to build arrays of titania nanotubes. Now, physorg.com interprets this invention through the perspective [...]

As I have said it many times before, inventions in the field of hydrogen storage are most desired, because hydrogen can be created easily from solar power, and offers nothing but water at the other end of the equation.

It seems natural that military applications take over the new technology. It seems natural that people use their best to defeat others, instead of helping their civilians.

Light and water are both involved in the process of green plants’ photosynthesis. Scientists have been trying to find out the deep truths of how plants acquire their energy from the Sun, split the water, generate oxygen, and create hydrocarbons, eating CO2 out of the air.

Photosynthesis is the process that converts carbon dioxide into organic compounds, mostly sugars, using sunlight energy. In translation it’s the process that helps plants assimilate the elements they need to grow. By this plants take the carbon dioxide from the air and release into the atmosphere oxygen. But what if we could use this process [...]

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.

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.

If you’re new to the subject, read how fuel cells work first]
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 [...]

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 [...]

Fuel cells are said to be the next big thing in the auto industry. In fact, they already are the next big thing. Fuel cells take advantage of the joining force between the oxygen and the hydrogen, and create electricity, used to drive anything (a car, more commonly). Price is a prohibitive variable in fuel [...]

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed new ways to make or to modify nanorods and nanotubes of titanium oxide (TiO2). The methods and new titanium oxide materials may lead to improved catalysts for hydrogen production, more efficient solar cells, and more protective sunscreens.

Last week bloggers across the web from sites dealing with energy, the environment, tech gadgets, mainstream business and policy pushed up MIT’s press release of a major breakthrough in ‘solar-hydrogen energy storage.’
Engadget asked is the energy crisis solved?, Treehugger mirrored MIT’s spin of this Giant Leap and blog Comment sections were flooded with posts ranging [...]