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When asked about hydrogen as a practical fuel, Bereisa told us, «There's a lot more hydrogen production around than people think, so if the country wanted to move to a hydrogen economy, it could get done pretty quickly and with a lot less investment than we're already seeing in the current stimulus package.»
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What it is: The vehicle can generate electricity from hydrogen that's stored in its tank, as well as from hydrogen stored outside the vehicle, though Toyota didn't specify how it would go about doing this.
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.
Hydrogen peroxide has the same function as chlorine in hydroponics — that is, it kills undesirable organics, but goes into the atmosphere from a liquid in about 2 hours and leaves no residue in the water; the same can not be said for chlorine, which is residual and may harm plants if the concentration is too high.
Facts About Dihydrogen Monoxide Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid.
Representing the 6,000 physicists who work on two separate detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), called CMS and ATLAS, two spokespersons said that both experiments seemed to agree, as both their data sets suggested that the Higgs has a mass close to that of about 125 hydrogen atoms.
Kourosh Kalantar - Zadeh, an engineer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, and his colleagues built plastic capsules about 2.5 centimeters long — about as long as a Jolly Rancher hard candy — that sniff out carbon dioxide, hydrogen and oxygen gas molecules in the gut.
They could also store up to 1.7 % of their weight as hydrogen, about as much as carbon nanotubes could store.
For about 150 million years after the Big Bang, the Universe was a «dark» place, made of just hydrogen and helium atoms, as the first stars had yet to be formed.
Just as the quartz crystal in a Swiss watch keeps time by vibrating at a steady frequency (about 32,000 cycles per second), the maser coaxes a supply of specially selected hydrogen atoms to emit radio waves at an unwavering 1.42 billion cycles per second.
The moisture - absorbing photocatalytic paint can be applied to any surface such as building facades, introducing the novel capability of generating hydrogen fuel just about anywhere.
For each type of biofuel, nearly all the fuel was converted and about 70 percent of the hydrogen bound up in the fuel molecules was given off as gas, the researchers report in this week's Science.
Currently, about 95 percent of hydrogen production worldwide comes from converting fossil fuels such as natural gas into hydrogen — a process that releases large quantities of carbon dioxide into the air, said Maher El - Kady, a UCLA postdoctoral researcher and a co-author of the research.
Fusion is more efficient than fission, but even if we enclose the sun in a perfect Dyson sphere, we'll still never convert more than about 0.08 percent of the sun's mass to energy we can use, because once the sun has consumed about a tenth of its hydrogen fuel, it will end its lifetime as a normal star, expand into a red giant, and begin to die.
It's about storing energy in hydrogen as a fuel.
About 600 tonnes of hydrogen are converted to helium every second in the Sun's central regions, providing the energy that we know as sunlight and making life on Earth possible.
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.
«By using this additive, we've raised the hydrogen storage to about 600 usable watt - hours per litre, which is two to three times as good as any battery,» Gervasio says.
«The core is mostly iron and some nickel, but also contains about 10 % of light alloys such as silicon, oxygen, sulfur, carbon, hydrogen, and other compounds,» Hirose, lead author of the new study to be published in the journal Nature.
While observing at the frequency that hydrogen atoms emit radiation, it will be able to image a circle on the sky as wide as about five Full Moons.
Shin - ichi Orimo at the Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, is excited about the potential of hydrogen - containing materials known as hydrides for energy storage.
Spectroscopic observations revealed that the planet is only about three to four times the size of the star — but its hydrogen emissions are almost as bright as the emission emanating from the star.
The error of the variational approach was about 15 percent for the ground state of hydrogen, 10 percent for the first excited state, and kept getting smaller as the excited states grew larger.
The star may be about only 63 percent as enriched as Sol with elements heavier than hydrogen («metallicity») based on its abundance of iron (D. Gigas, 1986, but more recent findings on Vega's mild underabundance of metals can be found in Ilijic et al, 1998).
Hydrogen, being an extremely light element, makes up only about 5 % of the weight of a rocket fuel mixture, and can thus be imported from Earth; heavy insulation and some gelling of the mixture with methane (as the hydrogen will not be fed directly into an engine) will reduce in - space boil - off to negligibleHydrogen, being an extremely light element, makes up only about 5 % of the weight of a rocket fuel mixture, and can thus be imported from Earth; heavy insulation and some gelling of the mixture with methane (as the hydrogen will not be fed directly into an engine) will reduce in - space boil - off to negligiblehydrogen will not be fed directly into an engine) will reduce in - space boil - off to negligible levels.
Although atmospheric oxygen soon recovered again as photosynthesis and weathering reached a new balance, at about 10 per cent of present - day levels, the oxidative weathering of sulphides on land filled the oceans with sulphate which created abundant food for a group of bacteria that filled the oceans with sewer gas (hydrogen sulphide) toxic to oxygen - loving lifeforms (delaying the development of eukaryotic plants and animals) and turned them «into stinking, stagnant waters almost entirely devoid of oxygen.»
It appears to be about 63 percent as enriched as Sol with elements heavier than hydrogen («metallicity»), based on its abundance of iron (Cayrel de Strobel et al, 1991, page 278).
This is a good one I've read about before — there's solid science done on past use of charcoal as a soil amendment, and also good work done on extracting hydrogen from carbohydrates, leaving charcoal behind that can be added to soil.
As hydrogen atoms move about in space, they can absorb small amounts of energy, sending the atom's single electron to a higher energy state.
As the energy output of the helium fusion process per unit mass is only about a tenth the energy output of the hydrogen process, this stage will only last for about 10 percent of a star's total active lifetime.
It may be only about 225 to 250 million years old (Liebert et al, 2005; and Ken Croswell, 2005), but being so much bigger and hotter than Sol, the star will exhaust its core hydrogen within only a billion years and turn into a red giant or Cepheid variable before puffing away its outer layers to reveal a remnant core as a white dwarf.
Sirius A is rich in elements heavier than hydrogen («metals rich»), as it has about one to 7.4 times the iron abundance of Sol (Cayrel de Strobel et al, 1991, pages 285 - 286).
It is about 63 to 68 percent as enriched as Sol in elements heavier than hydrogen (metallicity), based on its abundance of iron (Cayrel de Strobel et al, 1991, page 5).
It may only be about three to 10 percent as enriched as Sol in elements heavier than hydrogen (Cayrel de Strobel et al, 1991, page 20; and J. Tomkin, 1972).
That blistering heat stripped light - emitting electrons from the hydrogen atoms in the plasma, eliminating light as a source of information about the atomic nuclei, or ions, in the plasma and creating the need for a new diagnostic tool.
As the last of the light from the Big Bang escaped, the universe — now about 378,000 years old — would have been a dark place, with no sources of light to illuminate its fog of cooling, neutral hydrogen gas.
About 378,000 years after the Big Bang, as the universe cooled and expanded, electrons and protons began to bind together to form hydrogen atoms.
For example, when our sun begins the death process in about 1.1 billion years, it will start to grow hotter as it burns more hydrogen.
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.
It will use gaseous hydrogen (as opposed to liquid) to create electricity and propel the Clarity for about 300 miles.
Auto - makers have been talking about hydrogen powered cars for 50 years as the car of the future.
«So the efficiency of putting the electric energy directly into a battery is about twice as high as the efficiency of producing and using hydrogen.»
How to induce vomiting in your dog or cat: If the pet has eaten something he or she shouldn't have and there is real potential for poisoning to occur (such as medication, certain plants, flea medication, rat poison) it is possible to induce vomiting by giving about 1 teaspoonful (5 ml) of hydrogen peroxide 3 % (the regular kind from the pharmacy) for each 10 pounds of body weight.
After Sony Online released its NGE, Star Wars players dramatically confirmed Mulligan's lesson, much as the Hindenburg conveyed an important message about hydrogen.
Science Editor / / www.polijam.com Your Guide to the News Around the Web [ANDY REVKIN reacts: I actually see it as progress to have environmental stories out of their ghetto and spread around the paper (like the Greentech hydrogen - car story, the piece you mention above, which is here online, the National story about tidal power over the weekend, etc..
hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, such as the Mercedes F - Cell, scheduled to be introduced about 2014; and
Fourth, (and this is related to my first point, but in more detail), your initial point, i.e. the confusing sentence on which I commented, mentions the «grid» and includes such statement as «a critical step if intermittent sources like the sun are ever going to become a big part of the grid», a phrase you closely associated with the news about energy storage via hydrogen.
«I think we need to think hard about making the automobile dramatically simpler with hydrogen and fuel cells,» Burns told Reuters, noting that a fuel - cell propulsion system had one - tenth as many moving parts as an internal combustion engine.
The cost of an FCEV would be about the same as the cost of purchasing a PHEV since equipment for reforming gasoline to produce hydrogen would Continue reading Are We Implementing the Right Automotive Strategy?
Since the volumetric energy density of ammonia is three times that of liquid hydrogen, and ammonia combustion can be exceptionally efficient (about the same as burning diesel fuel in turbodiesels), it may be true that a hydrogen economy based upon OTEC and ammonia may be close at hand.