News tagged with fuel cell
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Tailoring fungi-based biofuels to meet the needs of current, advanced combustion engines
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engine experts and biofuels researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working on a project that aims to modify an endophytic fungus so that it will produce fuel-type hydrocarbons for ...
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Jan 19, 2011 |
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Japanese carmakers in push for hydrogen vehicles
Japan's top three automakers Toyota, Honda and Nissan have united with Japanese energy firms in a push to commercialise greener hydrogen fuel cell cars and build a network of fuelling stations.
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Jan 14, 2011 |
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Molten carbonate fuel cells: An alternative and cleaner power supply for ships
A new application of Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell (MCFC) has been developed by the European-funded MC WAP research project to be eventually used as an alternative power supply for ships. This will be cleaner ...
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Jan 12, 2011 |
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Hawaii expands push to fuel hydrogen cars
Hawaii may be the first state in the nation to successfully build a fueling infrastructure that will support thousands of hydrogen fuel cell cars.
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Jan 11, 2011 |
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Toyota unveils family of Prius hybrids
Toyota unveiled new siblings for its popular Prius hybrid Monday, introducing a brand new midsized wagon, a plug-in, and a compact Prius to journalists at the Detroit auto show.
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Jan 10, 2011 |
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Spinning the unspinnable: Using biscrolling technology invented at UT Dallas
Nanotechnologists at The University of Texas at Dallas have invented a broadly deployable technology for producing weavable, knittable, sewable, and knottable yarns containing up to 95 weight percent of otherwise unspinnable ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 06, 2011 |
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Japan nano-tech team creates palladium-like alloy: report
Japanese researchers have created an alloy with properties similar to palladium, a precious metal used in many high-tech goods, a news report said Thursday, dubbing the breakthrough "present-day alchemy".
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 30, 2010 |
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The fine art of producing chemicals and electricity: Researchers develop organometallic fuel cell
Together with Italian researchers, Swiss ETH Zurich Professor Hansjorg Grutzmacher and his group have developed a novel organometallic fuel cell. In addition to generating electrical energy, it also produces ...
Dec 16, 2010 |
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New method for making tiny catalysts holds promise for air quality
Fortified with iron: It's not just for breakfast cereal anymore. University of Illinois researchers have demonstrated a simpler method of adding iron to tiny carbon spheres to create catalytic materials that ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 15, 2010 |
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'Green genes' in yeast may boost biofuel production by increasing stress tolerance
An effort to increase biofuel production has led scientists to discover genes in yeast that improve their tolerance to ethanol, allowing them to produce more ethanol from the same amount of nutrients. This study, published ...
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Tiny channels carry big information
They say it's the little things that count, and that certainly holds true for the channels in transmembrane proteins, which are small enough to allow ions or molecules of a certain size to pass through, while ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Platinum-coated nanoparticles could lead to better fuel cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fuel cells may power the cars of the future, but it's not enough to just make them work -- they have to be affordable. Cornell researchers have developed a novel way to synthesize a fuel cell ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 09, 2010 |
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2.8-megawatt fuel cell to anchor Energy Innovation Park
Construction of a fuel cell with enough capacity to power 2,800 homes has begun on the UC San Diego campus as part of a renewable energy project with the city of San Diego and BioFuels Energy to turn waste ...
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Dec 08, 2010 |
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Molecular beam epitaxy facility to design custom materials for scientists
The instrument used for molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) looks a little like the lunar module, with spindly metal legs feeding into a large cylindrical canister. But this device isn't headed for the moon -- it ...
Dec 08, 2010 |
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Hard X-rays probe model fuel-cell catalyst
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource have developed a new, more powerful way to probe the behavior of a key component in hydrogen fuel cells. The group shone SSRL's ...
Dec 02, 2010 |
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