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A few month ago, I had the chance to test drive the new B - Class F - Cell hydrogen powered car from Mercedes Benz.

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Nikola Motor is designing and building its own driverless, hydrogen fuel cell — powered Class 8 truck.

Maybe algae will scale up from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then power the planet's 600 million vehicles via fuel cells; but the market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.

And other carmakers like Toyota Motor and Honda are investing heavily in eco-friendly cars; however, they are betting big that the vehicles will be powered by hydrogen fuel cells, rather than rechargeable electric batteries.

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.

Mississauga, Ontario - headquartered Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation technology and hydrogen fuel cell systems, today announced that it has received an order valued at C$ 7.8 million to supply fuel cell power systems for zero - emission vehicles in China.

Cuomo and the Business Council made their announcement of the endorsement at a Plug Power, a company based in a suburb of Albany that manufactures hydrogen fuel cells.

The endorsement was announced during an event at Plug Power, a hydrogen fuel cell company located near the Albany International Airport, but its seeds were planted last month at the Business Council's annual conference at the Sagamore, an island resort in Lake George.

A new water splitter powered by a single AAA battery could reduce the carbon pollution created from making hydrogen fuel cells, scientists report August 22 in Nature Communications.

And on a different technological track, hydrogen - powered fuel - cell cars — powered by devices Musk has publicly called «fools cells» — are beginning to enter the market, led by Japanese automakers.

Supporting a rail system powered by hydrogen fuel cells, for example, would require an entirely new infrastructure because hydrogen, being a small molecule, would leak through existing pipelines.

The electrical current can also be channeled to form hydrogen gas through the addition of electric power from a small photovoltaic cell that absorbs the excess light.

The exciting implication is that next - generation wastewater treatment plants could use new technologies, including microbe - powered fuel cells, to capture enough methane, hydrogen, and other fuels from wastewater to generate all the energy they need, and then some.

Burned or used in fuel cells, hydrogen is an appealing option for powering future automotive vehicles for several reasons.

Fuel cells are far greener than gas - powered engines because they produce electricity without burning up the hydrogen (or other fuel) that powers them.

The work, which appears in the November 27, 2014, edition of Science Express, points to new avenues for producing single - site supported gold catalysts that could produce high - grade hydrogen for cleaner energy use in fuel - cell powered devices, including vehicles.

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.

The program is an opportunity for consumers in California, New York State and the District of Columbia to test about 100 of the company's Equinox sports utility vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

Hydrogen fuel cells may be the best option for powering zero - emission vehicles: Toyota has just introduced a hydrogen - powered car in Japan and will make them available in the United States Hydrogen fuel cells may be the best option for powering zero - emission vehicles: Toyota has just introduced a hydrogen - powered car in Japan and will make them available in the United States hydrogen - powered car in Japan and will make them available in the United States in 2015.

Clean electricity could produce hydrogen for fuel - cell - powered vehicles and replace on - site boilers and furnaces for residential heating.

View slideshow The test hydrogen fuel cell — powered cars have a range of up to 200 miles (322 kilometers) per tank.

Two - way fuel cells Meanwhile, Versa, a solid oxide fuel cell stack supplier, is working with Boeing and «a large European company» on an innovative reversible SOFC that cycles back and forth between providing power and electrolyzing water into hydrogen and oxygen, Stokes says.

It's possible to produce hydrogen to power fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly.

But not all the sunlight would be absorbed by this electrode: light with a wavelength longer than 600 nanometres isn't absorbed by the rust - coloured water in the top cell so would pass through to strike the lower electrode, powering the production of hydrogen.

Reducing the platinum in fuel - cell catalysts could help bring hydrogen - powered vehicles to the mass market

Unfortunately, the other great hope for vehicles that exhaust no carbon — those powered by hydrogen - fed fuel cells — remains too pricey for broad sales.

The unlikely material may one day compete with more high - tech solutions such as carbon nanotubes for storing hydrogen for fuel - cell - powered vehicles.

Sandia leads a number of other hydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hhydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hHydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hhydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hydrogenhydrogen.

Professor Edwards added: «Instead of burning fossil fuels, leading to CO2, we use them to generate hydrogen, which with fuel cells produces electric power and pure water.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new, carbon - neutral way to convert vegetable - based fuels to syngas, a breakthrough that could allow producers to power hydrogen fuel cells or create a replacement for America's dwindling supplies of natural gas, all without relying on fossil fuels.

As a zero - emission fuel, the hydrogen can be recombined with oxygen to produce electric power on demand, such as onboard a fuel - cell vehicle.

Automobiles powered by hydrogen fuel cells are often lampooned as the cars of the future — and they always will be.

Because hydrogen fuel cells operate more efficiently at less - than - maximum power, their advantage relative to diesel generators rises, he said.

A large of proportion of energy research aims to establish and optimize renewable sources such as photovoltaics, hydrogen fuel cells, biomass, and wind power, but energy research can also be about improving old technologies.

The aim now for Daimler and its allies is to ensure that the number of fuel - cell powered vehicles running on generatively produced hydrogen is constantly increasing, demonstrating the market maturity of the fuel cell solution.

An M.I.T. researcher thinks he's found a way to efficiently use solar power to drive the electrolysis of water, which would isolate hydrogen for fuel cells.

The carmaker realized that if its vision of battery - powered electric vehicles gaining mass appeal in tandem with fuel cell electrics was to come true, it needed to so something about the lack of hydrogen infrastructure.

There, the fuel cell forces the hydrogen electrons through a circuit, generating current and powering the motor before the electrons rejoin the hydrogen protons and oxygen to form the car's only emission: water.

Electricity produced by a fuel cell by combining hydrogen and oxygen powered an electric motor to turn the two - seat test glider's propeller and enabled it to fly for roughly 20 minutes at 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) at about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level.

In the meantime, if you want to see full - size hydrogen - powered vehicles in action, take a trip to Reykjavík or Stuttgart: In 2001 the European Union ordered fuel cells for 30 bus engines from the Canadian company Ballard Power Systems.

Unlike battery - powered electric vehicles, fuel - cell powered ones have a long cruising range — up to 650 kilometers per tank (the fuel is usually compressed hydrogen gas); a hydrogen fuel refill only takes about three minutes.

The most promising of these options include renewable sources of a variety of types, advanced fossil - fuel technologies that can capture and sequester carbon, and hydrogen - powered fuel cells for vehicle propulsion and dispersed electricity generation.

They are filled with the hydrogen gas essential to run the fuel cells — or gas batteries, as the Victorians call them — that are so vital for the economy and for powering everyday life.

Last year, General Motors and Honda announced plans to jointly develop hydrogen fuel cell cars, and Hyundai will lease its Tucson Fuel Cell hydrogen - powered vehicle in California this sprcell cars, and Hyundai will lease its Tucson Fuel Cell hydrogen - powered vehicle in California this sprCell hydrogen - powered vehicle in California this spring.

Researchers are making progress in producing and storing hydrogen that could power a new generation of fuel - cell cars, despite seesaw domestic funding from successive presidential administrations.

Although fleets of fuel - cell prototypes are hitting the streets, basic technical and market obstacles must be hurdled before the clean, hydrogen - powered cars reach dealer showrooms

Hydrogen - powered fuel cells are regarded as a clean alternative to conventional combustion engines, as, aside from electric energy, the only substance produced during operation is water.

Dr. Autrey's current research interests are focused on materials and approaches to hydrogen storage for small power and on - board fuel cell applications.

Electric vehicles, powered by hydrogen fuel cells, provide the demanded driving range and low environmental impact.

However, hydrogen fuel cell powered electric vehicles suffer from a refueling problem.