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Sustainable hydrogen fuel from spinach and sunlight

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.…

Japan plans adoption of fuel cell vehicles by 2015

The Japanese government is working towards a steady supply of high grade hydroden and researchers have developed a low-cost replacement for platinum and palladium, which are used by fuel cells to create electicity. Being a large island smaller than the…

Hydrogen from concentrated solar

A new technique creates hydrogen at much high efficiency from concentrated solar. The hydrogen can then be used to power fuel cells and create energy. The researchers involved specifically designed the hardware to be easy to manufacture in bulk and…