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Credit: SourceOne By building a wind turbine to power a hydrogen production and fueling station, a little hamlet in Long Island is positioning itself as the bellwether for carbon-neutral transportation. The hydrogen will power two Toyota fuel cell Highlanders and a fuel cell / gas bus. Thus, Hempstead NY may become an important test [...] Electron microscope image of the microbe, Geobacter sulfurreducens, the core of the microbial fuel cell-based system. (NRL photo) That’s what the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory (NRL) is doing these days. Integrating the NRL developed technologies in microrobotics, microbial fuel cells, and low power electronics, space robotics scientist Dr. Gregory P. Scott at NRL’s Spacecraft [...] A fuel-cell laptop could run for weeks without a recharge. Research is underway to determine if B12 could be used instead of expensive platinum as a catalyst for fuel cells. Clean Technica reports that Fuel Cell Energy is getting a DOE grant to evaluate using CO2 from coal emissions along with hydrogen from natural gas to run fuel cells, creating electricity and reducing emissions. But CO2 can not be used as a feedstock for fuel cells. So the whole thing is a bit baffling. [...] Storing excess energy from wind is always a good idea. A German city plans to do so with ultra-clean fuel cells. [Michelin], the tire company has decided to develop a fuel cell. That’s right, a tire company developing a hydrogen fuel cell which will go inside a FAM F-City car in France. This will be the first fuel cell vehicle in France to win certification to drive on its roads. The FAM F-City will run [...] The scientists say introducing an enzyme into the water in which the algae live suppresses sugar production and increases hydrogen production by about 400 percent without killing the organisms. Ultimately, the bioengineered algae could be used to produce hydrogen on a large scale because algae is abundant, prolific and hardy and there is nothing [...] Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have confirmed a system for converting visible light into hydrogen fuel based on an ordinary, off-the-shelf ingredient from the produce section of a local market: spinach. Fuel cells run on hydrogen. Given a cheap reliable source of hydrogen, they could power cars, homes, offie buildings [...] The theory is that it is possible to drill for hydrogen streams approximately 1/2 miles under the Earth’s surface to tap into these streams. Such underground hyrogen streams exist in the US as well as Russia. If tapped, they could provide enormous amounts of hydrogen to be used to power fuel cells. |  | ||||
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