Sentences with phrase «as hydrogen fuel»

As far as hydrogen fuel cells versus electric cars or wind - powered land sailers, you can make arguments on all sides of the alternative fuel debate until you're blue in the face from too much CO2.

The hydrogen molecule is able to generate power by passing through a device such as a hydrogen fuel cell.

The graph above charts the contributions played by improved efficiency and adoption of renewable electricity sources as well as hydrogen fuel cells (with the hydrogen generated with renewable energy).

Long available in Europe, the B - Class has only been offered for lease in the U.S. as a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle, and only in the L.A. area.

As hydrogen fuel - cell vehicles become more commonplace, manufacturers are coming up with more records to break.

As hydrogen fuel cell vehicles continue to roll out in increasing numbers, the infrastructure for fueling them must expand as well.

That is important not only for the design of dye - sensitised solar cells, but also in order to be able to develop systems of materials for photocatalytic generation of hydrogen for storing solar energy as hydrogen fuel.»

The plan is to match the basic electric - drive system with various recharging sources, including engines that burn gasoline, ethanol and biodiesel fuels as well as hydrogen fuel cells.

Electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind power, which can be intermittent and unreliable, could then be easily stored and distributed as hydrogen fuel.

Not exact matches

It's part of a German experiment to install some 400 hydrogen - fueling stations across the country, a government - subsidized effort Shell sees as helping seed what ultimately could be a huge market for a new kind of juice.

Consider this: One tablespoon of liquid hydrogen fuel — a mix of deuterium and tritium — would produce the same energy as 28 tons of coal.

Other makers are also expected to join the fray, as more hydrogen fueling stations come on line.

But like many other, overly optimistic hydrogen - based fuel entrepreneurs, Dean, whose company made a specialized membrane that was to be used in the fuel - cell modules, watched the ground open beneath his feet as the commercial take - up proved to be far slower than anyone anticipated.

Technologies from Westport Innovations Inc. allow engines to operate on clean - burning fuels such as compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), hydrogen and biofuels such as landfill gas.

Honda established a division late last year to develop electric vehicles (EVs) as part of its long - held goal for lower - emission gasoline hybrids, plug - in hybrids, EVs and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to account for two - thirds of its line - up by 2030, from about 5 percent now.

Toyota follows in the footsteps of Daimler AG and divests part of its shares in Tesla as the Japanese automaker looks to hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative power source.

Both companies produce fuel cells that convert hydrogen into clean electricity and nearly half of Ballard's sales now come from China, as the country adds hydrogen - fuelled electric buses to its roads.

By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters)- Budweiser beer maker Anheuser - Busch said on Thursday it reserved up to 800 hydrogen - fueled semi-trucks from Nikola Motor Company as part of...

Nikola plans to process its own hydrogen fuel at each station with on - site solar power, wind power or by buying electricity created through renewable sources such as hydropower.

Budweiser beer maker Anheuser - Busch said on Thursday it reserved up to 800 hydrogen - fueled semi-trucks from Nikola Motor Company as part of plans to convert its dedicated long - haul fleet to renewable powered trucks by 2025.

Thats a safe way to use hydrogen as a fuel!

More likely, it'll happen in a few biillion years when the sun expandss rapidly as it depletes its» hydrogen fuel, and the earth is scorched.

Lobbyists for environmental groups and the planet's biggest automobile manufacturers are pushing the governor and legislative leaders to give tax breaks or taxpayer - funded rebates to consumers who buy zero - emissions vehicles, such as battery electric or hydrogen cell fuel cars.

200 million dollars in bookings, and we'll do a hundred and fifty million dollars in revenue this year, growing again by 50 per cent, as well as building 25 hydrogen fueling stations.

Solid oxide fuel cells that can use conventional fossil fuels as well as hydrogen are set to take a larger role in the energy game

Cars running on hydrogen fuel cells produce zero emissions, but currently, factories must use fossil fuels, such as natural gas, or precious metals, such as platinum, to...

KERRY: In the last several years, the senator proposed or backed several multibillion - dollar programs to promote industrial innovation, in - cluding $ 10 billion for research to develop a system that uses hydrogen as a fuel.

The new hydrogen plant, which will allow the company to increase fuel production, will remain, as well as equipment to more efficiently handle higher sulfur - content crude oil.

They call this idea the hydrogen hypothesis because the bacterium fed the archaean the hydrogen and carbon dioxide it used as fuel and converted them to methane.

The group found that although fuel - cell vehicles would produce zero greenhouse - gas emissions during use, the extraction and refinement of hydrogen fuel would release three to five times as much carbon into the air as is released in procuring and refining gasoline and diesel.

The experiment has potential as a source of renewable fuel, but at a solar - to - hydrogen efficiency rate of around 5 percent, the conversion rate is still too low to be commercially viable.

And if hydrogen is fed into a fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 2005].

Using sunlight to create fuels (such as hydrogen on the other electrode in this solar cell) with inexpensively prepared electrodes may provide a solution to the intermittency drawback of solar energy.

It turns out they are indispensable for a range of urgently needed green energy technologies such as wind turbine generators, low - energy lighting, fuel cells, rechargeable batteries, magnetic refrigeration and hydrogen storage.

An efficient, low - cost catalyst is essential for realizing the promise of hydrogen as a clean, environmentally friendly fuel.

Using excess energy from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind to split water into oxygen and hydrogen — a process called electrolysis — could be the best solution for creating large supplies of sustainable hydrogen fuel.

Natural gas blended with renewable hydrogen also produces less emissions than regular natural gas when used at a power plant or as a transport fuel.

As plug - in electric vehicle sales continue to putt along, automakers are increasingly pinning their hopes on hydrogen fuel cells as the clean vehicle technology of the futurAs plug - in electric vehicle sales continue to putt along, automakers are increasingly pinning their hopes on hydrogen fuel cells as the clean vehicle technology of the futuras the clean vehicle technology of the future.

Among the cleanest low - carbon fuels is hydrogen, which can react with oxygen to release energy, emitting nothing more harmful than water (H2O) as the product.

«So as long as you're using renewable electricity and not some kind of brown electricity, that is really the most direct pathway to producing real, carbon - free hydrogen fuel.»

Hydrogen has long been attractive as a clean and renewable fuel.

Asteroids also contain an abundance of water, which, aside from serving as hydration during space travel, could be used as a shield to protect spaceships from the sun's radiation or to produce hydrogen - and oxygen - based rocket fuels.

And whereas other soft robots have had at least a few hard parts, such as batteries or wires, the octobot uses a small reservoir of hydrogen peroxide as fuel.

Automakers have said they're concentrating fuel - cell vehicle sales in California, expanding to other states as more hydrogen fueling stations come available.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

«We want to be just as confident of the safety of hydrogen in our fuel tanks and on our street corners.»

As the most abundant element in the Universe and the raw fuel for creating stars, hydrogen is used by radio astronomers to detect and understand the makeup of other galaxies.

The challenge now, scientists say, is to scale up the process to provide large amounts of hydrogen for various purposes, such as fueling vehicles or small generators.

Our production capacity will build over the next few years; with the growth of the hydrogen fuel stations, so will the demand for this cutting - edge technology grow, as well.»

Lighter components, including hydrogen and carbon monoxide in a mixture similar to Britain's old town gas, rise to the top of the chamber, from where they can be vented for use as fuel.