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The WorldFirst Formula 3 racing car drives down the straight of a test track at Bruntingthorpe, near Lutterworth

Mean, green machine - future of motor racing

Technology / Energy

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Cars powered by chocolate, steered by carrots with drivers sitting on soybean oil foam seats - it's motor racing's cheap, cheerful and environmentally-friendly series of the future.


In S.C., high-tech bet on hydrogen-powered cars may be move in wrong direction

Technology / Energy

created May 10, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 40

The Obama administration's plan to cut research dollars for hydrogen-powered cars is not good news for South Carolina and its capital city Columbia, which just last month opened two hydrogen fueling stations and unveiled ...





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Hydrogen-fueled cars stuck at the gate

Technology / Energy

created Feb 21, 2008 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Analysts say hydrogen fuel cells have major hurdles to overcome before U.S. consumers will accept the technology in their cars.


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300 mph: New Land Speed Record for a Hydrogen Powered Vehicle

Technology / Energy

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the complaints that many have with regard to vehicles powered by alternative energy is the fact that they don't really have a lot of speed. However, this does not necessarily have to ...


Auto-manufacturers in Japan are making a renewed push to mass produce a hydrogen-powered vehicle

Japanese automakers rev up efforts in hydrogen cars

Technology / Energy

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 12

Imagine a car that can be refuelled in minutes but emits only water. Sounds like science fiction? In fact it already exists -- Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis has one. So does Honda president Takanobu Ito.


High-pressure compound could be key to hydrogen-powered vehicles

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (15) | comments 11

A hydrogen-rich compound discovered by Stanford researchers is packed with promise of helping overcome one of the biggest hurdles to using hydrogen for fuel--namely, how do you stuff enough hydrogen into a volume that is ...


Tiny buckyballs squeeze hydrogen like giant Jupiter

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 20, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (56) | comments 12

Hydrogen could be a clean, abundant energy source, but it's difficult to store in bulk. In new research, materials scientists at Rice University have made the surprising discovery that tiny carbon capsules called buckyballs ...


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Italy launches first clean hydrogen power plant

Technology / Energy

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Italian power company Enel said Friday that it had started up a ground-breaking hydrogen-powered electricity plant producing no greenhouse gases.


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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 ...


Prototype hydrogen storage tank maintains extended thermal endurance

Prototype hydrogen storage tank maintains extended thermal endurance

Technology / Energy

created Jun 04, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 3

A cryogenic pressure vessel developed and installed in an experimental hybrid vehicle by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory research team can hold liquid hydrogen for six days without venting any of ...


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 ...


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.



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