Archives: Fuel Cells

Harnessing the Power of Dirt: A Revolutionary Fuel Cell for Sustainable Sensing

February 1, 2024 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Harnessing the Power of Dirt: A Revolutionary Fuel Cell for Sustainable Sensing | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

  Imagine a world where sensors in remote agricultural fields are powered not by batteries that need constant replacing, but by the very earth beneath them. This is the vision behind a groundbreaking new fuel cell that uses microbes living in soil to generate electricity.   This isn’t your typical fuel cell, reliant on expensive • Read More »

 Nanowires Deliver Durability to Fuel Cells

September 1, 2023 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on  Nanowires Deliver Durability to Fuel Cells | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

A new fuel cell design that shows great potential for increased durability has the capability to revolutionize heavy-duty trucks and other clean fuel cell applications. This groundbreaking electrode, a crucial component within a polymer electrolyte-membrane fuel cell, is constructed using corrosion-resistant nanowires. This advancement might mark the beginning of a fresh era for hydrogen-powered fuel • Read More »

New Catalyst for Affordable Fuel Cells

August 3, 2022 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on New Catalyst for Affordable Fuel Cells | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

This new low-cost catalyst could be the ideal solution to replace the much more expensive platinum options available today. The cost of using platinum as the catalyst has meant that the cost of a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle has been out of reach for the majority of those interested in buying in. The expensive costs • Read More »

Doped Carbon-Coated Nickel for Cheaper Fuel Cells

May 1, 2022 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Doped Carbon-Coated Nickel for Cheaper Fuel Cells | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

Green technology shows many unique and intriguing innovations, but a new nitrogen doped carbon-coated nickel anode could play a major role in green innovations moving forward. This intriguing anode has been developed with the purpose of catalyzing an essential reaction in hydrogen fuel cells. Given the high cost of hydrogen fuel tech that puts many • Read More »

New York Unveils $125 Million Hydrogen Fuel Cell Innovation Center

December 1, 2021 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on New York Unveils $125 Million Hydrogen Fuel Cell Innovation Center | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

Recent reports reveal that Plug Power, a US-based electric equipment manufacturing company, has joined hands with utility and government agencies of New York to establish the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Innovation Center. This massive $125 million facility in Monroe County will be utilized to develop hydrogen fuel cell stacks as well as electrolyzers that can be • Read More »

Benefits of the 2-Way URFC Fuel Cell

November 1, 2021 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Benefits of the 2-Way URFC Fuel Cell | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

A fuel cell uses the chemical energy of fuels or hydrogen to efficiently produce the electricity. If we use hydrogen as fuel, then the products will be electricity, water, and heat. Fuel cells have wide range of uses, like they can be used to provide electricity to a small laptop computer, a vehicle or may • Read More »

In-Water Refueling Fuel Cell System

September 1, 2021 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on In-Water Refueling Fuel Cell System | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

There was a recent announcement made by the Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center, that a mechanical engineer, Benjamin Wilcox, working for the Shore Technical Department, received two 20-year patents for designing underwater refueling fuel cell systems. The US Patent number 10,731,549 is assigned to “In-Water Refueling System for Unmanned Undersea Vehicles with Fuel • Read More »

Non-Platinum Catalyst for Cheaper Fuel Cells

January 14, 2021 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Non-Platinum Catalyst for Cheaper Fuel Cells | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

For years, hydrogen fuel has been viewed through two prisms including the ability to give us a potential solution for long-term ethical energy, and the mass challenges that we face in turning hydrogen into an affordable form of fuel in the long-term. Along these lines, there has been a push for a development of non-platinum • Read More »

DC, AC, now HC — spacetime energy transmission

November 10, 2020 | By Stan Thompson | Comments Off on DC, AC, now HC — spacetime energy transmission | Filed in: Fuel Cells, Green Hydrogen, Hydrail, Hydrogen Cars, Hydrogen Trucks, Infrastructure, Myths.

by guest blogger Stan Thompson updated 12/21/2020 In the late 1800s Nikola Tesla took Thomas Edison’s DC and alternated the polarity back and forth so that its voltage could be stepped up by a transformer and hauled much further by overcoming electrical resistance. Way off in the distance, at the user end, another transformer stepped • Read More »

Polymer Resin Gives Boost to Fuel Cell Engines

November 6, 2020 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Polymer Resin Gives Boost to Fuel Cell Engines | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

Fuel cell manufacturers are constantly looking for solutions that allows for maximum performance and efficiency. That is why the development of polyphthalamide for use in fuel cells is so important: the performance boost that they can provide is incredible. Fuel cell development firm Nuvera Fuel Cells are now moving into the process of using BASF’s • Read More »