Archives: Hydrogen Fuel Production

Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory have discovered that microorganisms that live in desert salt flats are using sunlight to produce hydrogen. And if coaxed, these bacteriorhodopsin that live in the hottest areas of California and Nevada, could be persuaded to produce large amounts of hydrogen fuel. According to Argonne, “Argonne nanoscientist Elena Rozhkova and • Read More »

At the leading science foundation in Ireland, CRANN, researchers there have discovered a non-platinum method for creating hydrogen gas from water. This new method uses iron and nickel oxide to do the efficient water splitting. Now, I have talked before about how iron may be the new platinum. I’ve also posted over a dozen times • Read More »

There are separate stories surfacing now about two different methods to create hydrogen: one using water and the other using ethanol as a feedstock. Scientists at Penn State University have discovered that nickel and phosphorus nanoparticles (pictured above) will catalyze water into hydrogen as efficiently as any non-platinum materials now in existence. According to Penn • Read More »

Researchers at the University of Wollongong (UOW) south of Sydney, Australia, are not the first folk to talk about using seawater to create hydrogen. And they are also not the first to develop an artificial leaf to do the same. But, nonetheless, the scientists at UOW (pictured above) think they have built a better mousetrap. • Read More »

Duke University engineers have come up with a novel method to create hydrogen that also creates nearly zero carbon monoxide in the process. The materials used are nanoparticles of gold and iron oxide (rust). In April 2013 I wondered on this blog if iron is the new platinum – and it may very well be. • Read More »

Over 90-percent of the hydrogen created today is done so by the process of steam reforming natural gas / methane. In this process, CO2 is created as a byproduct. And a substantial portion of this CO2 (a greenhouse gas) is simply released into the atmosphere as a byproduct. Now what if this didn’t have to • Read More »

On April 03, 2013 I asked if iron is the new platinum. Researchers at the University of Calgary and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory seem to think so. Both are using iron in place of platinum for chemical reactions involving hydrogen. Researchers at the University of Calgary are even using an iron and cobalt combination • Read More »

Well, first off I have to thank Viacheslav Zgonnik for sending me the link to this article. I also have to thank Google Translate since the article is in French. The gist of the article is that in some parts of the world hydrogen gas occurs naturally (which is a paradox since it is often • Read More »

Percival Zhang and his team of Virginia Tech researchers have come up with a method to create massive amounts of hydrogen using plants. This hydrogen from biofuel method uses the second most abundant plant sugar xylose along with a customized enzyme and polyphosphate to create pure hydrogen. According to Virginia Tech, “To liberate the hydrogen, • Read More »