Posted on May 16th, 2012 by admin
A company named HyperSolar, Incorporated has recently revealed a technological breakthrough in using solar plus water to produce hydrogen. And the kicker is that any kind of water, dirty to clean can be used in this process. How does the breakthrough technology do this? The solar electrolysis of water starts at the nanoscale in order [...]
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Posted on May 10th, 2012 by admin
I’ve talked about the artificial leaf many times before as a novel idea in which significant amounts of hydrogen could be produced. In fact, in March of 2011, I had talked about a researcher named Daniel Nocera, Ph.D. who had created such an artificial leaf and was putting the polishing touches on it. Today, however [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2012 by admin
Yesterday I had talked about how a senior chemist, Radoslav Adzic, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (run by the DOE) had won the 2012 Inventor of the Year Award for his work with reducing the amount of platinum needed in fuel cells. Well, today the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has some more big news this [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2012 by admin
Both Linde and TOTAL have taken a step in reducing the world’s carbon footprint by supplying green hydrogen to fuel cell vehicles in Germany this past week. Both companies are producing hydrogen from clean and renewable resources. According to Linde, “The hydrogen generated from biodiesel by-products at the company’s pilot plant in Leuna, Germany, was [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2012 by admin
A hydrogen-hybrid power station has started up in Prenzlau, Germany. The hydrogen from the power station is going to feed cars in Berlin and Hamburg. The power station creates hydrogen by wind to hydrogen methods and biogas to hydrogen methods. Both methods are green and create no CO2 gases. According to deutschebahn.com, “The aim of [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2012 by admin
I’ve talked in the past about thermochemical cracking of water at high temperatures to create hydrogen. Nuclear power plants already produce waste steam and heat, two of the ingredients needed to create hydrogen from water. And while high temperature cracking of water into hydrogen and oxygen has been talked about and experimented with for years, [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2012 by admin
Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) are building artificial nanotrees that mimic real life plants to take in sunlight, water and CO2 and produce hydrogen fuel. Now, I’ve talked about the artificial leaf being developed several times before for the same purposes. The engineers at UCSD, however, are using cheap materials [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2012 by admin
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a technique to produce hydrogen from acidic water. What the researchers there have done is create a molecule that is structurally and chemically similar to the industrial catalyst molybdenite. The new molecule will replace platinum as the catalyst of choice for creating [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2012 by admin
The last time I had talked about the Town of Hempstead (part of Long Island, NY) was back in February, 2009. At that point they were installing their first hydrogen fueling station and fueling up a GM Equinox Fuel Cell vehicle which was part of the automaker’s Project Driveway program. But, now the Town of [...]
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Posted on January 4th, 2012 by admin
The Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has recently made great strides in cheaply and efficiently producing hydrogen. One of the long standing problems of creating hydrogen from water has been energy consumption. According to ANL, “Easier routes to the generation of hydrogen have long been a target of scientists and engineers, principally because the process to [...]
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