Sentences with phrase «about hydrogen powered»

One of the oft - heard complaints about hydrogen powered cars is that the fuel tanks can not store their fuel for extended periods — having to vent their contents in two to four days» time.

Auto - makers have been talking about hydrogen powered cars for 50 years as the car of the future.

Not exact matches

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.

Simply pouring a teaspoonful of anti-water into regular water would unleash the energy equivalent to 200,000 tons of TNT, the yield of a typical hydrogen bomb — enough to power the world's entire energy needs for about seven minutes.

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 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.

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.

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.

Lacaille 9352 may have 50 to 58 of Sol's mass (Demory et al, 2009, Table 4; RECONS; and NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, interpolation table of Henry and McCarthy, 1993), less than half (43 to 46 percent) of its diameter (Demory et al, 2009, Table 4; and NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, derived from the power law formula of Kenneth R. Lang, 1980), 1.1 percent of its visual luminosity and 3.5 percent of its bolometric luminosity (NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, derived from the exponential formula of Kenneth R. Lang, 1980), and only about one tenth to 60 percent of Sol's abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen («metallicity»)(Demory et al, 2009, Table 4).

Available to be powered by electricity, gas or — if in California — hydrogen, the newest generation Clarity is all about options.

There have been rumors about BMW signing a partnership for batteries and parts with Tesla Motors and even the possibility of a hydrogen - fueled i5, but what we do know for a fact is that the Germans are working on a very efficient hybrid drivetrain that goes by the name Power eDrive.

While electric vehicles have been the darlings of the zero - emissions car market, hydrogen - powered fuel cell vehicles are about to challenge them.

Car manufacturers showed off new hydrogen fuel cell - powered vehicles, more sophisticated autonomous driving features, and at least one dog - centric vehicle at this year's New York Auto Show, but what about the screens that we at The Verge love?

MacKay sets out the numbers about everything from clean coal to hydrogen - powered cars.

In this age of hybrid, electric and even hydrogen - powered cars, there is something still very anti-establishment about buying a car with more get up and go than most full - size trucks or SUVs.

Even if the atmosphere doesn't turn out to be more sensitive to CO2 than feared, my plan A would include a major shift to accelerator - driven thorium electrical power plants worldwide, and replacement of gasoline - powered transportation with electrical or hydrogen or some technology I don't yet know about.

The hydrogen there generates a flow of electricity sufficient to power the car for about 5 minutes, according to Corgi International, the manufacturer.

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..

The Tri-Gen plant will produce enough hydrogen to power about 1,500 vehicles on an average daily use cycle (Credit: Toyota)

The Tri-Gen plant will produce enough hydrogen to power about 1,500 vehicles on an average daily use cycle

In 2006, a study for the IEEE showed that for hydrogen produced via electrolysis of water: «Only about 25 % of the power generated from wind, water, or sun is converted to practical use.»

By the 90's I'd started to realize that the Coming Disasters the Alarmists always preached about never actually seemed to get any closer, and more telling, that their chosen solutions (like Solar and Wind Power, Hydrogen Fuel, and especially Governmental Control) never seemed to make anything better.

I recognize that losses due to power line impedance may be small for a localized setup like this, but I'm also talking about other losses, e.g., in liberating, transporting and storing the hydrogen.

And what about the liquid hydrogen fuel used to power the Space Shuttle?

Because George W. Bush, a man who doesn't know squat about hydrogen fuel cells and the challenges of a hydrogen economy, makes a speech that — once again — says hydrogen - powered vehicles are an attainable goal.

How about a liquid hydrogen powered 100 passenger transport aircraft?

At the NIF, a bubble of hydrogen * about the size of a bb is heated and compressed by 192 high - power lasers until a miniature star briefly comes to life.

The report, «Taking on Big Challenges,» details the progress of Ecomagination (first covered here, with subsequent updates about cheap hydrogen production and nuclear power), GE's commitment to imagine and build innovative technologies that help customers address their environmental and financial needs and help GE grow, and it appears to be a success on all fronts.

The ABC's Nick Harmsen wrote about a Hydrogen - fuelled power plant planned for Port Lincoln in South Australia on 2018/02/11.