Posted on December 1st, 2009 by hydrokevin
Engineering students at Northeastern University took first place in the Chem-E-Car Competition that took place in Nashville, Tennessee. The vehicle that they called the Aluminator used a combination of water, aluminum foil and sodium hydroxide to produce hydrogen.
The hydrogen was then pushed through a fuel cell along with ambient air, which powered the wheels of [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2009 by hydrokevin
Industry leader Proton Energy Systems will be working with the Hydrogen Education Foundation (the charitable arm of the National Hydrogen Association) to deliver $1 million total in scholarships to high school seniors who pursue higher education in science or technology.
I’ve talked about Proton Energy Systems before as one of the world leaders in building hydrogen [...]
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Posted on April 16th, 2009 by admin
The Shell Eco Marathon America 2009 is going on right now in Fontana, California and let’s students from across the nation compete with very high MPG cars. In 2008, the winning car was from Europe and it was able to squeeze out 7,955mpgs.
This year, some high school students are racing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles trying [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2009 by admin
At Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, engineering students Andres Pacheco and Alex Bell are getting in gear and putting their hydrogen fuel cell motorcycle through its paces. The two are using a Ballard PEM fuel cell stack with hydrogen stored in two metal hydride tanks.
The bonded hydrogen is released from the metal powder inside the [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by admin
The 2008 Hydrogen Car Challenge in Australia and New Zealand gives kids a chance to get out of school for a while and learn about hydrogen technology. Students will be able to build fuel cell cars from kits and how to power them with water and electricity.
On the website, there is a photo page with [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by admin
A couple of weeks ago I talked about the EnergyWhiz Olympics in Florida where high school students in the area built and raced small hydrogen fuel cell cars. Middle schoolers also competed in the Hands-On-Hydrogen challenge as well.
Today I’d like to talk about a group of Montana middle school students who were challenged by their [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2008 by admin
The EnergyWhiz Olympics, sponsored by the University of Central Florida, featured the Hydrogen Sprint this past weekend to help high school students learn about alternative energy vehicles. Students were asked to design and built hydrogen fuel cell cars and then race them head-to-head.
The Hydrogen Sprint is designed to expose students to the potential of hydrogen [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2007 by admin
When people think of the Green Monster, images of Fenway Park’s 37-foot wall in left field come to mind. But, students in Hawaii hit their own home run with their own homegrown Green Monster, a hydrogen racecar about the size of a loaf of bread.
Recent high school graduates at the Kapiolani Community College participated in [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2007 by admin
Students at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom have developed the country’s first hydrogen race car. Engineering Ph.D. students, John Goddard and the ironically-named James Waters have converted a Formula Student racecar to run on hydrogen gas.
The first Formula Student racecar to run on hydrogen will do so in a very green way. [...]
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Posted on June 28th, 2007 by admin
St. Andrews Episcopal middle school in Amarillo, Texas has won this year’s Department of Energy (DOE) and General Motors sponsored National Science Bowl Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car Challenge. The Challenge took place at the University of Denver and St. Andrews beat out Salem Middle School in Apex, North Carolina to win $200 and a [...]
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