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Sunday, May 9th, 2010 Toyota hydrogen fuel cell test vehicle
Toyota, all set to release a plug-in version of its Prius in 2012, now says that in 2015, they will release a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle for about $50,000. While other companies such as GM and Honda have been testing their own versions of hydrogen fuel cell cars over the [...]
Blacklight Power moving ahead – gets its research validated
Friday, August 14th, 2009Blacklight Power, who I highlighted a couple of weeks ago, announced this week that they’ve gotten third party verification of their technique for generating energy from water. Researchers at Rowan University developed and ran a series of tests to “…establish whether or not BlackLight had discovered a new low-energy form of hydrogen dubbed a [...]
BlackLight Power claims energy from water, and signs sixth utility deal to provide power
Saturday, August 1st, 2009This is interesting – BlackLight Power is a company that is claiming to be able to lower the energy level of hydrogen atoms below ground state, which they say will enable them to produce power for about 1 cent per kilowatt hour, using mostly water. The fact that many scientists say that this is [...]
General Fusion raises $9M in venture financing
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 General Fusion’s magnetized target fusion core design
General Fusion, who I wrote about before, is a Canadian company that is taking a low cost mechanical approach to nuclear fusion. The General Fusion concept is to use sound waves to create shock waves in a sealed container that would be strong enough to fuse deuterium and [...]
Obama Administration cuts funding for hydrogen powered cars
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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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