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- Fuel Cell
- A pollution-free electricity generation technology that is expected to compete with traditional methods of creating and distributing electricity. It is also expected to be used in electrically powered cars,...
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- They're still pushing hydrogen
- General Motors is heralding a milestone for their hydrogen-powered cars still in road testing. Under current political conditions the hydrogen fuel cell car looks almost perfect: it emits H20. No carbon, sulphur or nitrous emissions. It burns hydrogen which is almost infinitely available from hydrolysis. And that in...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, General Motors Corp., Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- Hydrogen fuel cell cars hit the road. GM hits panic button.
- An eighteen hundred mile demo tour has begun. Hydrogen powered cars will wend across North America for days, having left from Chula Vista today. The run ends June 3 in Vancouver. Here's the official website for Hydrogen Road Tour 2009. The site includes...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, VW, General Motors Corp., Hydrogen, Daimler, A-Class F-CELL, Fuel Cell Car, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- VW Passat Ling Yu hydrogen fuel cell vehicle photos
- Volkswagen gave us a chance to drive its hydrogen-powered Passat, developed from its lab in China and used at the Beijing Olympics. This Passat has electrically driven wheels, with an onboard hydrogen fuel cell system to generate electricity. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, VW, Photograph, Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-05-20
- Photos: Silicon Valley adopts renewable energy tech
- City and county governments in Silicon Valley are looking toward solar and fuel cell technology to provide cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable energy. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Fuel Cell, Renewable Energy, Photograph, Fuel Cells, Telecom & Utilities, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-05-18
- If green is the new black, then 100 MPG is new green
- Images of the IDEA, plug-in utility vehicle. Courtesy Bright Automotive. And today a car rolled into the heart of the beast, right up to Capitol Hill amidst all that government posturing and power. And this car's makers say THIS IS THE FIRST 100 MPG CAR...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Indiana, Solar Energy, Electric Vehicle, Plug-in, Bright Automotive, Envision Solar, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Medis 24/7 fuel cell Power Pack
- The Medis 24/7 Power Pack is among the first consumer devices that uses a fuel cell to charge portable gadgets. For being the first of its kind, it's a novelty, but the Power Pack is more essential than other digital accessories, should you need to fire up a dying cell...
- Tags: Fuel cells, Media players, DVD, Consumer electronics, Handhelds, fuel cell, Power Pack, MedIS
- Product reviews 2008-10-24
- Toward more efficient fuel cells?
- Toward more efficient fuel cells?If prior efficiencywas 1x10^-15, then an improvement of 100 million times is still meaningless.1000 posts!Congrats :).....Face it you and your kind are a dying breed. The world is moving forward with alternatives to oil... enjoy being a dinosaur... we know what happened to them. ]:)Yes, we...
- Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Toward more efficient fuel cells?
- A very short report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS, 'A cool fuel cell,' says that Spanish researchers have developed a new way to operate solid oxide fuel cells, which could potentially provide electricity on an industrial scale, at near room temperature. This new super-lattice material...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Ion, Oxygen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Material, Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Ballard Power Systems, Inc. Streamlines Product Management to Accelerate Time-to-Market
- Ballard Power Systems, Inc. is a world leader in the development, manufacture, sale, and servicing of hydrogen fuel cells. Ballard Power Systems, Inc. wanted to remain on the leading edge of the fuel cell industry and foster market adoption. The challenge was to improve operational efficiency to reduce costs and...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Oracle Corp., Ballard Power Systems Inc., Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies
- Case studies 2008-08-01
- Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency
- They're even talking about it on the radio now--can Detroit automakers survive? If you listened to this show on NPR the future of Chrysler is south of bleak. Ford and GM may just be bigger and have more blood to lose. The local Detroit paper's headline: auto sales...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Automobile Company, Plug-in, Fuel Cells, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- A new way to make water -- and fuel cells
- A new way to make water -- and fuel cellsHydrogen Fuel CellI've been toiling over quite sometime about what to do with these ridiculous fuel price spikes which seem to take place every week or even daily now. I can't sell my car, since it's how I make my living,...
- Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- America's ready. Where the electric car? The fuel cell SUV?
- America's ready. Where the electric car? The fuel cell SUV?One thing I really wish for...Is that GMC brings back the original EV1.nah, I'll just get a Th!nk Ox when they are availableI have my PriusNice to finally have a car that isn't a penis substitute. I fill...
- Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell, SUV
- Discussion threads 2008-06-01
- America's ready. Where's the electric car? The fuel cell SUV?
- The American consumer has spoken: give us smaller or lighter or more efficient cars. Not some day. Now. But as is too often the case, the public is way ahead of the business and marketing folks. Example: my daughter's old car recently developed serious...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, America, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp., American Consumer, Fuel Cells, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...
- Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...Here's a better ideaBurn the freaking methanol in an internal combustion engine. Catalyst requirement gone.Sheesh.Just another example that global warming really isn't about global warming. Making and burning methanol is carbon-neutral, but note how the idea of simply manufacturing methanol to...
- Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell, methanol, global warming, internal combustion engine, combustion engine
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...
- "Since 1965, methanol has been the only racing fuel used by the Indianapolis 500. Methanol also is an ideal hydrogen carrier fuel for fuel cell technology applications." That's a direct quote from the Methanol Institute website. Now how'd you like to have that under the hood of your...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Methanol, Catalyst, Methanoliacs, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Fuel cell phones and cameras
- CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos talks with MTI's CEO Peng Lim, who shows off fuel cell prototypes for electronic gadgets that Lim says will finally start hitting the market next year.
- Tags: News, michael kanellos, fuel cell, camera, Pen Lim, green
- Videos 2008-04-25
- At MTI Micro, pushing fuel cells for portables
- At MTI Micro, pushing fuel cells for portablesOK, so how does it work...?I'm completely non technical in this area, but some questions arise from the article, that were not clearly explained. It uses methanol, so how do you recharge it with a USB cable? Where does the new methanol come...
- Tags: Fuel cells, MTI Micro, MTI, fuel cell
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- (Photos: Fuel cells for cameras)
- (Photos: Fuel cells for cameras)Great Achievement!This looks promising!RE: (Photos: Fuel cells for cameras)I think that this is great for all of us photographers out there who want to shoot for extended periods of time without having to worry about out batteries dying on us when we need them the most.
- Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell, camera, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Photos: Fuel cells for cameras
- MTI Micro's goal is to start displacing lithium ion batteries with fuel cells in portable electronics. First stop: the SLR. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Photograph, Camera, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-04-07
- Nanotechnology-based clean hydrogen for cars
- According to EE Times, a California-based company called QuantumSphere has developed nanoparticles that could make hydrogen cheaper than gasoline. The company says its reactive catalytic nanoparticle coatings can boost the efficiency of electrolysis the technique that generates hydrogen from water to 85% today, exceeding the Department of Energy's goal for...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Electrode, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Nanotechnology, Hydrogen, QuantumSphere, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
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