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Whole Foods tests fuel cells

Whole Foods Market in Glastonbury, Connecticut has decided to install a hydrogen-powered fuel cell to supply ½ of their electricity and almost 100-percent of their hot water. Plus, heat from the fuel cells will be used to heat the store.…

How fuel cells work

From UTC Power. Fuel cells take a chemical input and convert it directly to electricity, outputting only water and heat with no carbon as byproducts. Most use hydrogen, which can be produced by solar, which means the entire process is…

FrankenEColi produces massive hydrogen

  [Thomas] Wood, a professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M, successfully tweaked a strain of E. coli to get it to produce 140 times more hydrogen than it does naturally. Wood is “is already confident of its potential to…

Portable fuel cells

Markets for portable power could be the most suitable arenas for fuel cells to begin taking on established energy sources. Among the key benefits, these technologies exhibit a far better weight-versus-energy characteristic than conventional batteries. This includes cell phones, laptops,…