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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009The Obama Administration, in its 2010 budget proposal, seems to have lost faith in hydrogen fuel cell technology. The latest budget knocks out over $100 million in funding for hydrogen research, leaving only $68 million that’s earmarked specifically for fuel cells. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, in explaining the cuts, has said that they do [...]
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Nuclear fusion news: The National Ignition Facility and General Fusion, Inc - two different approaches to nuclear fusion
Sunday, April 26th, 2009Tyler Hamilton, from The Toronto Star and the CleanBreak.ca blog noted a couple of developments in the nuclear fusion area this week. One part of the article was about how scientists at the new National Ignition Facility, that was completed last month plan to take its 192 lasers and aim them at a tiny pellet [...]
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Cheaper hydrogen - Korean researchers find a way
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Researchers at Korea’s S&P Energy Research Institute have come up with a cheaper way to manufacture hydrogen, Gizmodo reports. The current electrolysis process takes about 4 to 4.5 kWh to produce one cubic meter of hydrogen gas, but the method that the Korean researchers came up with takes just 0.1 kWh to produce the same [...]
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Senate passes renewable energy bill
Thursday, September 25th, 2008I was going to write about the Senate passing a bill to expand and encourage investment in renewable energy, but Ecogeek.org has a nice synopsis of the bill, so just go there instead. The House gets to put their spin on the bill next, so we’ll see what happens with that. Hopefully the House [...]
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650 miles per tank - with liquid hydrogen
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have come up with a way to get 650 miles on one tank of hydrogen. Liquid hydrogen, that is. Recently, the team set a new world record after they installed a super insulated hydrogen gas tank in a standard Prius. The tank was able [...]
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Cold Fusion back in the news
Saturday, May 31st, 2008Yoshiaki Arata, a scientist from Osaka University in Japan, has reignited the cold fusion debate with an apparently successful public demonstation of cold fusion. The process that Arata and his co-researcher Yue-Chang Zhang is using forces deuterium gas under pressure into an evacuated cell that contained a matrix of zirconium oxide containing palladium nanoparticles. [...]
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Hydrogen generator that increases MPG being tested in San Antonio
Sunday, May 25th, 2008Researchers at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio are testing a water fueled hydrogen generator that could be used with standard gasoline engines to increase mileage. The hydrogen generator, created by Steve Gerhlein, an auto mechanic in San Antonio , has installed a system in his cars that generates hydrogen using water mixed with [...]
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Aquygen interview with COO of Hydrogen Technology Applications
Friday, March 28th, 2008At a blog called HHO Gas: enabling a car to run on water, there’s a short first installment of an interview with Russ Scott, the COO of Hydrogen Technology Applications, Inc, the company behind Aquygen (HHO). The first installment just covers the reason for the lack of news out of the company. [...]
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Honda’s Home Hydrogen Fueling Station
Thursday, January 24th, 2008In conjunction with Honda’s planned limited release of its FCX Clarity hydrogen powered car this year (see Up, up and away - the hydrogen car is here), Honda plans to sell a home hydrogen fueling station, the Home Energy Station IV, which helps stop the chicken and egg syndrome envisioned for hydrogen powered cars. (Basically, [...]
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Up, up and away - the hydrogen car is here
Monday, November 5th, 2007The London TimesOnline reviews the Tokyo motor show that was held last week, with the announcement that Honda scooped them all by announcing it will be putting out the world’s first hydrogen fuel cell car into production next year - the FCX. The car will travel an estimated 270 miles at speeds [...]
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