This would eliminate the need to produce hydrogen or to
build hydrogen fueling stations.
AMES, Iowa — Seventeen middle school team representatives from 11 schools around Iowa converged on the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory on Feb. 22 to learn about hydrogen fuel - cell technology and to
build hydrogen fuel - cell model cars.
We built some hydrogen fuel cells in my AP Chemistry class.
Not exact matches
Nikola Motor is designing and
building its own driverless,
hydrogen fuel cell — powered Class 8 truck.
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.
Nuclear
fuel rods began melting and volatile
hydrogen gas
built up.
Hyundai Motor Co. is currently in the process of
building a public
fueling station in Chino, Calif., with «the capability» to produce
hydrogen from electrolysis using renewable energy that's expected to open before the end of the year.
A gadget
built around an automotive
fuel injector transforms ethanol, or grain alcohol, into
hydrogen gas, a team of chemical engineers reports in this week's issue of Science.
Electrolysis has a bright future, according to Shane Stephens, chief development officer and principal at FirstElement
Fuel, a California - based startup that was awarded $ 28 million by the CEC to
build 19
hydrogen stations throughout the state.
«We now know that we can
build more
hydrogen fueling stations if we examine the safety issues within a sound, technical framework that focuses on the real behaviors of
hydrogen.»
California, which currently has 10 publicly available
hydrogen fueling stations, recently approved more than $ 200 million in funding to
build at least 100
fueling stations by 2025.
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.»
But by
building on the basic step of achieving such high quantum efficiency for solar
hydrogen generation, we could make the process of producing a «green»
fuel much greener as well.»
In place of turbochargers and high - octane gas, the scientists tweaked their engine design and used an additive to speed the oxidation of
hydrogen peroxide into
fuel to create nanomachines 350 times more powerful than any previously
built.
The experimental fusion reactors now being
built around the world use a
fuel composed of a plasma of two isotopes of
hydrogen — deuterium and tritium.
Nor is the Chevrolet Equinox the first
fuel cell vehicle General Motors (GM) has ever produced: The 1966 Electrovan, an unwieldy and prohibitively expensive
fuel cell van that never made it out of the lab, was the first of about 40 or so
hydrogen -
fueled vehicles that have been
built by the U.S. carmaker.
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.
That's because the core of making jet biofuel is much the same as the core of making conventional
fuel: hydroprocessing, or the adding of
hydrogen to existing hydrocarbons in order to remove oxygen and other impurities as well as
build the right molecule.
The
buildings housing reactors Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 have all suffered damage from
hydrogen explosions, caused by the high - temperature, high - speed interaction of
fuel rods and steam.
acceleration of
hydrogen fueling station deployment, including the identification of a flexible set of technical experts and facilities to respond quickly to challenges that arise as new
hydrogen stations are
built.
And yet on 15 March the
building exploded, apparently
fueled by
hydrogen, leaving nuclear engineers to speculate about the source.
«The end goal is to break out those molecular
building blocks — the protons and electrons — to make
fuels such as
hydrogen,» said David Shaffer, a Brookhaven research associate and lead author on a paper describing the work in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Prior to joining NREL, she worked at three different
fuel cell start - up companies and is now part of the leadership team responsible for
building a
hydrogen and
fuel cell R&D program at NREL.
However, the use of
hydrogen peroxide as the micromotor
fuel is a drawback because it is an extra additive and requires the use of expensive platinum materials to
build the micromotors.
Mendoza - Cortes has been conducting clean - energy research for several years and recently theorized a way to
build more efficient storage for
hydrogen fuel.
Like the
hydrogen -
fueled 7 - series sedans that BMW
built for demonstration tours, the Mini E is not a full production exercise.
Like the fact that GM
built the world's first
hydrogen fuel - cell vehicle in 1966 out of a van.
Two
hydrogen fuel - cell - powered vehicles have emerged from Dutch labs recently: the HydroGEM, a
fuel - cell powered version of a GEM Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV),
built using a Dutch
fuel - cell stack; and the Fhybrid scooter.
It's
built on an all - new, purpose -
built platform for its
hydrogen fuel - cell architecture and it is targeting a range of between 500 and 580 kilometres on a single tank.
The Provoq has a sleek, athletic shape that
builds on the second generation of Cadillac's design renaissance, led by the 2008 CTS, with dynamic and purposeful features that support the
hydrogen fuel cell powertrain and contribute to the vehicle's overall efficiency.
LAS VEGAS —
Building an all - new,
hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle is itself a daunting task.
Furthermore, to
build greater awareness of the Clarity
Fuel Cell and hydrogen dispensers, a dedicated: 30 spot will be displayed on video screens above conventional gasoline fuel pumps at select gas stations in Los Angeles that also house hydrogen fuel pu
Fuel Cell and
hydrogen dispensers, a dedicated: 30 spot will be displayed on video screens above conventional gasoline
fuel pumps at select gas stations in Los Angeles that also house hydrogen fuel pu
fuel pumps at select gas stations in Los Angeles that also house
hydrogen fuel pu
fuel pumps.
The federal budget introduced in March included $ 62.5 million over two years to help
build the infrastructure needed to support alternative
fuel vehicles, including charging stations for electric cars and refuelling stations for vehicles that run on natural gas and
hydrogen.
It is a Whole Earth Catalogue of green systems, with a rainwater collection system; hydroponic garden to grown food for the community; biological wastewater treatment system to convert black water to greywater and potable water; earth tubes to funnel clean, natural air into the
building through underground ducts; vertical axis wind turbines and solar panels for on - site green energy; and
hydrogen fuel cells powered by methane, a byproduct of the wastewater treatment system.
Driving Goals Ultimately, the road trip is to raise the funds needed to
build greater awareness and further the development of
hydrogen gas as a
fuel source.
Publicly, most automakers are ducking the issue and emphasizing potential pitfalls of
building hybrid cars with plugs, but pressure is mounting behind the scenes to give the idea some life... «Such development should have the highest research and development priority because it promises to revolutionize transportation economics and to have a dramatic effect on the problems caused by oil dependence,» write George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state, and James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in a June position paper on oil and U.S. national security... They argue that battery development for plug - in hybrids «should for the time being replace the current research and development emphasis on automotive
hydrogen fuel cells.»
Toyota has announced it will
build the world's first megawatt - scale carbonate
fuel cell power generation plant with a
hydrogen fueling station in California.
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CARB is still trying to ignore the fact that
hydrogen fuel cells will not be operating in many cars ever, and in fact any
hydrogen fuel cells should be operated instead in a stationary situation to use the heat in a cogeneration system to charge batteries for plug in hybrids whilst providing heat or cooling to a
building and to use their high efficiency 24 hours a day instead of a few hours commuting.
In 2004, the University of South Carolina installed a
hydrogen fuel cell to provide power for the Living and Learning Center at the West Quad Dorm, a LEED certified
building.
The
fuel cell needs to have a converter
built into the car that can convert gas to
hydrogen from gas or water, then it is used in the
fuel cell to create the energy to power the car.
In California Governor Schwarzenegger decided to
build a
hydrogen infrastructure in anticipation of the coming
fuel cell car.
Authorize a ten - year program with funding to
build hydrogen service stations throughout the nation to service
hydrogen -
fueled
Lower carbon sustainable biofuels will likely also be a necessity for internal combustion engines because it could take decades to
build out new, safe, and accessible infrastructure for
fueling electric or
hydrogen - powered zero - carbon vehicles.
Tesla's supercharging stations are also less costly to
build and can be located in
buildings and parking garages, something
hydrogen fueling stations wouldn't be allowed to do.
Hydrogen and other coal gases can be used to
fuel power - generating turbines, or as the chemical
building blocks for a wide range of commercial products, including diesel and other transport
fuels.
You
build a nuclear powered
hydrogen factory near the coal and feed that
hydrogen into a coal to liquid plant to make any
fuel you want.
Although radiation leakage has been reported, the reactor core containment is said still to be intact, But if the cooling operation is not successful then there is a risk that, aside from the (hopefully low) possibility of a explosion as at Chernobyl, or a
hydrogen explosion (as was feared at one time at Three Mile Island in the USA), melting
fuel could burn through the core and the floor of the reactor
building and enter the soil, a risk that would be heightened if the floor structure was cracked by the earthquake.
California has set forth on the ambitious goal of
building a network of
hydrogen fueling stations by the year 2010.
If there is a problem, and this has yet to be proven, there is plenty of time to deal with it by
building lots of nukes from which we can get electricity and thus
hydrogen to
build fuels.