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Double-action power stations: Energy and hydrogen

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gas power plants could be cheaply retrofitted to generate hydrogen as well as power, chemists say in Green Chemistry, a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.


Researchers meet major hydrogen milestone

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 18, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 8

A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory earlier this month reached a major milestone with the successful production of hydrogen through High-Temperature Electrolysis (HTE).


Engineer Taps Heat-Loving Bacteria for Hydrogen

Engineer Taps Heat-Loving Bacteria for Hydrogen

Biology /

created Jul 30, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A North Carolina State University engineer has been awarded a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to learn more about the microbiology, genetics and genomics behind how and why heat-loving ...


Scientists Find New Way to Produce Hydrogen

Scientists Find New Way to Produce Hydrogen

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 14

Scientists at Penn State University and the Virginia Commonwealth University have discovered a way to produce hydrogen by exposing selected clusters of aluminum atoms to water. The findings are important ...


Hydrogen-making algae's 'Achilles' heel' discovered

Hydrogen-making algae's 'Achilles' heel' discovered

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered how oxygen stops green algae from producing hydrogen. The findings could help those working towards 'solar H2-farms' in which microorganisms produce hydrogen fuel ...


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Producing hydrogen from urine

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (52) | comments 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- You do two things at motorway services: fill up one tank and empty another. US chemists have combined refuelling your car and relieving yourself by creating a new catalyst that can extract ...


Fuel from food waste: bacteria provide power

Biology /

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers have combined the efforts of two kinds of bacteria to produce hydrogen in a bioreactor, with the product from one providing food for the other. According to an article in the August issue of Microbiology Today, this t ...


Power from Formic Acid

Chemistry /

created May 07, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (34) | comments 3

One of the central challenges of our time is the supply of enough environmentally friendly and resource-efficient energy to our society. In this context, hydrogen technology has taken on increased importance.


Hydrogen-rich Material Promises Advances in Energy Transmission, Fuel Storage

Hydrogen-rich Material Promises Advances in Energy Transmission, Fuel Storage

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, a joint institute of SLAC and Stanford University, have produced a hydrogen-rich alloy that could provide insight into ...


Taiwanese researchers have revealed that they have developed hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers

Taiwan unveils hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers

Technology / Energy

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Taiwanese researchers said Friday they have developed hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers, in a development that could boost the island's efforts to become a player in green technologies.


Fair Trade: Lanthanum chloride catalyzes hydrogen–chlorine exchange between chlorinated hydrocarbons

Chemistry /

created Jun 16, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Because of its toxicity and the dangers involved in handling it, tetrachloromethane (carbon tetrachloride, CCl4) can no longer be used or produced in many countries. However, the processes used in the production of other ...


New combustion strategy accelerates hydrogen-engine development

New combustion strategy accelerates hydrogen-engine development

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Car manufacturers aspire to create hydrogen-powered vehicles that could one day allow energy-efficient, cost-effective travel that emits no greenhouse gases or other pollutants. To further ...


How sweet it is: 'Revolutionary' process points to sugar-fueled cars

How sweet it is: 'Revolutionary' process points to sugar-fueled cars

Chemistry /

created Apr 09, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (30) | comments 7

Chemists are describing development of a “revolutionary” process for converting plant sugars into hydrogen, which could be used to cheaply and efficiently power vehicles equipped with hydrogen fuel cells without ...


From microbes to hydrogen fuel

Technology / Energy

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Searching for an environmentally friendly way to produce cheap hydrogen as a fuel, researchers at Oregon State University are turning to microbes that have been doing the job for billions of years.


Closing the hydrogen economic loop

Technology / Energy

created Jul 21, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (39) | comments 7

The inventor of the nickel metal hydride (NiMH) technology used for building batteries for countless portable electronic gadgets and now hybrid gas-electric cars believes the hydrogen economy is already upon us.