News tagged with hydrogen vehicles


The viability of hydrogen transportation markets: Chicken or egg?

Technology / Energy

created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 8

Hydrogen may well be the new gasoline. But where's the nearest "gas" station where you can pull up and refuel your energy-efficient vehicle? Will hydrogen stations be strategically convenient—located on street corners and ...


Hydrogen vehicles making impressive progress toward commercialization

Technology / Energy

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A transition to hydrogen vehicles could greatly reduce U.S. oil dependence and carbon dioxide emissions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council, but making hydrogen vehicles competitive ...





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Back pain permanently sidelines soldiers at war

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created 14 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Military personnel evacuated out of Iraq and Afghanistan because of back pain are unlikely to return to the line of duty regardless of the treatment they receive, according to research led by a Johns Hopkins pain management ...


Engineers image nanostructure of a solid acid catalyst and boost its catalytic activity

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created 14 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh and Rice Universities.


Ginzburg helped develop the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb in the late 1940s and early 1950s

Russian bomb physicist Ginzburg dead at 93

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Nobel Physics prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died at age 93, the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday.


Findings show nanomedicine promising for treating spinal cord injuries

Findings show nanomedicine promising for treating spinal cord injuries

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University have discovered a new approach for repairing damaged nerve fibers in spinal cord injuries using nano-spheres that could be injected into the blood shortly ...


W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback (AP)

W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.


Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games (AP)

Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 6

(AP) -- A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space - an idea spurred by science fiction novels.


'Dropouts' pinpoint earliest galaxies

'Dropouts' pinpoint earliest galaxies

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 13

Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its characteristic hydrogen signature ...


A new computer simulator allows to design military strategies based on ants' movements

A new computer simulator allows to design military strategies based on ants' movements

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3

A researcher of the University of Granada, Spain, has designed a new system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield based on the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move using a commercial ...


Computer predicts reactions between molecules and surfaces, with 'chemical precision'

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Good news for heterogeneous catalysis and the hydrogen economy: computers can now be used to make accurate predictions of the reactions of (hydrogen) molecules with surfaces. An international team of researchers, headed by ...


Ford to put air bags into back seat belts of SUV (w/ Video)

Ford to put air bags into back seat belts of SUV (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Air bags have long been mounted in the steering wheel, dashboard and sides of vehicles. Now, they're in the seat belts. Ford Motor Co. plans to introduce seat belt-mounted air bags in the back seat ...



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