Fuel Cells Make Power for Homes in Japan

Mar 03, 2008 By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer
Fuel Cells Make Power for Homes in Japan (AP)
Masanori Naruse sits back on a couch at his home in Hiratsuka, near Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008. Naruse's home gets its electricity and hot water from power generated by a hydrogen fuel cell. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

(AP) -- Masanori Naruse jogs every day, collects miniature cars and feeds birds in his backyard, but he's proudest of the way his home and 2,200 others in Japan get electricity and heat water - with power generated by a hydrogen fuel cell.



Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .

Explore further: Poland may delay launch of nuclear plants

add to favorites email to friend print save as pdf

Related Stories

High-frequency trading tactic lowers investor profits

29 minutes ago

High-frequency trading strategies that exploit today's fragmented equity markets reduce investor profits overall, according to new findings by University of Michigan engineering researchers. The study is believed to be the ...

Researchers discover a way to detect new viruses

31 minutes ago

(Phys.org) —In research published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Saint Louis University researchers describe a technology that can detect new, previously unknown viruses. The te ...

A robot that runs like a cat (w/ Video)

14 hours ago

Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, EPFL's 4-legged 'cheetah-cub robot' has the same advantages as its model: It is small, light and fast.

Recommended for you

Cape Wind gets $200M investment from Danish fund

3 hours ago

The Cape Wind offshore wind project has secured a $200 million investment from a Danish pension fund in what the wind farm's president said Tuesday is a milestone for the long-delayed project.

Toxic radiation in groundwater at Fukushima: operator

5 hours ago

Cancer-causing radioactive substances have been found in groundwater at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, its Japanese operator said on Wednesday, as it pledged to prevent it getting into the sea.

Poland may delay launch of nuclear plants

15 hours ago

Poland could delay building its first nuclear power plants as natural gas, including shale gas, becomes less costly, the prime minister of the central European heavyweight said Tuesday.

User comments : 0

More news stories

Seeing data

More data are being created, consumed, and transported than ever before, and in all areas of society, including business, government, health care, and science. The hope and promise is that this influx of ...

DNA constructs antenna for solar energy

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have found an effective solution for collecting sunlight for artificial photosynthesis. By combining self-assembling DNA molecules with simple dye molecules, ...