Sentences with phrase «from hydrogen powered»

The world of green gadgetry covers everything from hydrogen powered cars, solar powered gadgets, those containing recyclable plastic to alarm clock radios with wind up crank handles and even mobile phones with green credentials, demonstrating how manufacturers are innovating with environmental concerns in mind.

Doug Fehan: «From a production powertrain standpoint, I don't think any manufacturer can come close to having the library and extensive knowledge that GM has, from hydrogen power to E85 to KERS to everything else.

Domestic U.S. oil and natural gas companies are pioneers in developing alternatives and expanding America's use of virtually every form of energy — from geothermal to wind, from solar to biofuels, from hydrogen power to the lithium ion battery for next - generation cars.

Not exact matches

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.

«They found hydrogen sulfide, the odiferous gas that most people avoid, in Uranus's cloud tops,» according to a press release from Gemini Observatory, a high - power telescope atop a Hawaiian volcano.

Far more importantly, the shift from the internal combustion engine to electric, hybrid or hydrogen - powered vehicles may be the most important technological and social development since, well, the automobile first appeared.

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.

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.

Researchers are proposing a new «hydricity» concept aimed at creating a sustainable economy by not only generating electricity with solar energy but also producing and storing hydrogen from superheated water for round - the - clock power production.

The device uses solar electricity from a photovoltaic panel to power the chemistry that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen, then adds pre-starved microbes to feed on the hydrogen and convert CO2 in the air into alcohol fuels.

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.

There is relatively less interest in power - to - gas in the U.S., where hydrogen from electrolysis, even by taking advantage of cheap excess renewable energy, would have a tough time competing against abundant, low - cost shale gas.

On a life - cycle basis, FCVs running on hydrogen derived from steam - reforming natural gas — currently the most affordable way of making hydrogen — produce less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of a gasoline - powered car.

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.

He believes it could also play a role in a future large - scale hydrogen generator, which would collect the energy from sunlight in huge fields and then run that electric current through water to produce vast amounts of hydrogen to meet, for example, the demand from a future fleet of hydrogen - powered 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.

Aliens might want resources from our solar system (Earth's oceans, perhaps, full of hydrogen for refilling a fusion - powered spacecraft) and swat us aside if we get in the way, as we might dismiss mosquitoes or beetles stirred up by the logging of a rain forest.

«Our process also has an important advantage over battery or gaseous - hydrogen powered vehicle technologies as many of the hydrocarbon products from our reaction are exactly what we use in cars, trucks and planes, so there would be no need to change the current fuel distribution system,» said Frederick MacDonnell, UTA interim chair of chemistry and biochemistry and co-principal investigator of the project.

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.

This civilization could derive limitless hydrogen from the oceans, perhaps harness the power of volcanoes, and maybe even control the weather.

They envision zero - carbon power plants that run on fuel made from hydrogen isotopes in seawater and produce less waste than today's nuclear power plants.

The DemoSNG pilot plant constructed by the KIT will be used in Sweden for the reliable and efficient production of methane from biomass - based carbon dioxide and variable amounts of hydrogen from green power.

Hydrogen made using natural gas would fare a little bit better in terms of pollution output, while making it from wind power would a slam - dunk for the environment.

(Tokyo Electric Power Company, the plant operator, later suggested that the hydrogen that had exploded had come not from exposed spent fuel but from the melted reactor core in the adjacent Unit 3.)

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.

Long has been exploring MOFs as gas adsorbers for a decade, hoping to use them to capture carbon dioxide emitted from power plants or store hydrogen in hydrogen - fueled vehicles, or to catalyze gas reactions for industry.

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.

Stone's proposed venture would create rocket fuel by melting water ice from the moon's soil, purifying it (exactly how, he says, is a trade secret), and splitting it into hydrogen and oxygen, perhaps using a solar - powered electrolysis system.

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.

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

PULLMAN, Wash. — Academic, industry and government researchers from around the West will gather at Washington State University on Tuesday, April 19, to glimpse a hydrogen - powered future.

For the near - and mid-term alternative fuel options (i.e., hydrotreated oil from animal fats and vegetable oils, and FT liquids), electric power is not an important input to the production process, but hydrogen is.

The researchers are also looking into ways of extracting hydrogen from water to power them.

Hydrogen storage and mechanical compressors need to be sized with the variable flow from a renewably - powered hydrogen generator Hydrogen storage and mechanical compressors need to be sized with the variable flow from a renewably - powered hydrogen generator hydrogen generator in mind.

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).

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Energy is generated through fuel cells powered with hydrogen collected from phytohydrogen generators (genetically enhanced algal cultures that produce the element as a by - product) and with solar - collector hydrogen generators.

5) Fuel cell energy system powered exclusively with a renewable fuel (e.g., fuel cell powered by hydrogen extracted from biogas).

Fueled by hydrogen, their electricity is generated on demand by a fuel cell rather than power from batteries.

Although hydrogen - powered cars are one of the most ideal forms of transportation, one huge roadblock has kept them from entering the mainstream: Hydrogen is wildly expensive tohydrogen - powered cars are one of the most ideal forms of transportation, one huge roadblock has kept them from entering the mainstream: Hydrogen is wildly expensive toHydrogen is wildly expensive to obtain.

A study of greenhouse gas - emissions by the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California at Irvine shows fuel - cell vehicles running on hydrogen derived from natural gas ultimately create far less GHG emissions than BEVs running off the U.S. grid, which is powered mostly by coal and natural gas.

The official line from Mazda is that the development of a hydrogen - powered rotary engine is «ongoing» and in future, we could see a much more efficient alternative - fuel rotary engine.

The Mirai is the culmination of 20 years worth of research into hydrogen fuel - cell vehicles, and underneath the dramatic bodywork (and the Lexus ct200h / Toyota Prius platform) is a powertrain that takes compressed hydrogen and pushes it through membranes that separate the electrons from the hydrogen, using them to power an electric motor that drives the front wheels like in a regular electric car.

When compared to the Tucson FCEV's fuel cell stack, the Nexo's is 16 kilograms lighter yet boasts a one - kilowatt improvement in power density, now 3.1 kW per litre, which means a big improvement in driving range — in this case, 609 kilometres from its three underfloor hydrogen fuel tanks.

Since Toyota first sold Prius in the U.S., more options have emerged for consumers looking to spend less on fuel or part ways with the gas pump entirely, from the plug - in hybrid Chevrolet Volt to the all - electric Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S. Toyota also is introducing the new hydrogen - powered fuel - cell Mirai, which will be joined by competitors from Hyundai and Honda.

The c's big brother and stablemate Prius is getting a complete redesign for 2016, with many design elements inside and out rumoured to be borrowed from the Toyota Mirai, the hydrogen - powered sedan which went on sale in Japan and California this year.

The sole option is a trunk - mounted power take - off system that enables the Mirai to serve as an emergency generator, providing up to 60 kilowatt - hours of electricity from a full load of hydrogen, sufficient to power a small home for up to a week, Toyota says.

So the new concept receives an innovative four - wheel drive transmission, in which each wheel is fitted with an individual electric motor powered by hydrogen fuel cells to ensure zero emissions — only water comes from the exhaust system.

Honda is also producing and distributing energy through sustainable methods, such as using solar power to produce hydrogen fuel from water.