Sentences with phrase «make fuel cell»

Therein lies the caveat: the infrastructure does not yet exist for many people to get the necessary hydrogen fuel to make the fuel cell go.

We make fuel cell systems that generate electricity from renewable biomass for people without access to an electric grid.

A few days later, he told her about a lab in Columbus, Ohio, that was making fuel cells the size of pencil erasers.

«You can picture the seafloor as a huge, ready - made fuel cell,» Tender says.

Haile's team will also investigate making the fuel cells reversible, which would transfer electricity back into hydrogen for placement on grid backup.

Now, a team of engineers at UD has developed a technology that could make fuel cells cheaper and more durable.

Scientists at the University of Ulster's Nanotechnology Institute and collaborators from Peking University and University of Oxford have developed reduced graphene oxide / platinum supported electrocatalysts (Pt / RGO) that could make fuel cells more efficient and more resistant to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Bloom Energy makes fuel cells that take fuel (natural gas or biogas) and combine it with oxygen and other chemicals to create an electrochemical reaction that produces electricity.

Not exact matches

But like many other, overly optimistic hydrogen - based fuel entrepreneurs, Dean, whose company made a specialized membrane that was to be used in the fuel - cell modules, watched the ground open beneath his feet as the commercial take - up proved to be far slower than anyone anticipated.

Rive argues that when the factory is up and running it will be able to produce high - output PV cells at about 55 cents a watt — about a 20 % reduction from current prices, which will help Rive get closer to his goal of making solar cheaper than fossil fuels.

What else it offers: The car may not be available for purchased, but the hydrogen fuel cell technology may make an appearance in other Toyota vehicles.

The vast majority of the members of the cluster, however, are small businesses in the fuel - cell industry, including suppliers that make pieces of a final product.

The stations will be usable by fuel - cell vehicles made by other companies.

Copper — is also found in shredded coconut which works together with iron to fuel your metabolism, support energy function, as well as to make functional red blood cells.

Our materials make innovation design solutions possible in a range of industries including consumer electronics, solar and wind energy, fuel cells, package printing, aerospace, automotive, food safety and industrial applications.

GE has made some surprising moves in recent months, laying off staff at its fuel cell start - up in Saratoga County and getting rid of employees in its energy storage business unit in Schenectady.

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.

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.

While the combination therapies block off the principal pathway that cancer cells use to fuel their growth, the cells come to bypass this blockade and, like vehicles on a detour route, make use of additional pathways to continue growing and spreading.

That makes nuclear fission look a bit more competitive, at least until the price comes down on solar, wind, biomass, fuel cell, and other, less controversial emissions - free energy sources.

Although the GP - write project could spur the development of brand - new types of cells that could make valuable fuels and drugs, it has come under scrutiny for its initial secrecy and the potential ethical issues that could arise as a consequence of the research, such as the creation of unnatural life forms.

«It wouldn't be a great strategy for natural gas people to hope and wait for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in order to make a mutual strategy,» said Nicholas Lutsey, program director at the International Council on Clean Transportation.

Scientists are also investigating the possibility of using high - temperature nuclear reactors to make hydrogen for fuel cells.

Several mutations were found in genes coding the machinery that makes mitochondrial proteins, and so would probably hinder mitochondria's ability to make the chemical fuel called ATP, which is used by normal cells.

Now, researchers report that by creating a fuel cell that can run at a midrange temperature, they've made an inexpensive, powerful version that could boost the prospects for plentiful green energy.

A tree's leaf, a blade of grass, a single algal cell: all make fuel from the simple combination of water, sunlight and carbon dioxide through the miracle of photosynthesis.

To make it commercially, such fuel cells would need to produce at least 500 mW / cm2, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

AN EDIBLE material that can be made from kitchen ingredients could be used to store hydrogen for use in fuel - cell cars.

Also intriguing is that Chlamydia can make ATP, the basic fuel for any cell.

The practical side of the Emefcy fuel cell relates to the materials engineering: both the anode and cathode are made of a carbon cloth that acts as a conductor.

The scientists have devised a new manufacturing technique that could boost the efficiency of an inexpensive type of solar cell by up to 50 %, making the technology an economically feasible alternative to fossil fuels in the search for sustainable energy.

Chemist Bjorn Winther - Jensen of Monash University in Australia and his colleagues addressed that problem by developing new electrodes for fuel cells made from a special conducting polymer, that costs around $ 57 per counce.

They still need to make a cheap, durable fuel cell.

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 in 2015.

But these fuel cells require an electrocatalyst — a platinum surface — to increase the reaction rate, and the cost of the precious metal makes it hard for hydrogen fuel cells to compete economically with the internal combustion engine.

There's also interest in using metal catalysts to convert carbon dioxide into fuels, make fertilizers from atmospheric nitrogen and drive reactions in fuel - cell cars.

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.

Catalysts that drive the oxygen reduction reaction that lets fuel cells turn chemical energy into electricity are usually made of platinum, which stands up to the acidic nature of the cell's charge - carrying electrolyte.

We could make small - scale microbial fuel cells that use human waste to make drinking water, electricity, or both.

Whereas airships harnessed hydrogen's buoyancy, the Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell, an SUV, uses it to make electricity.

In addition, the fuel cells are made by a combination of tape casting - lamination - cofiring (TLC) techniques that are commercially viable for large scale SOFC.

Such collaborations, Wong says, should one day make it possible to rationally design superior catalysts for affordable fuel - cell vehicles.

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.

Artificial muscles made with carbon nanotubes or a shape memory alloy can be designed to act as fuel cells, thus alleviating a need for a remote battery power source.

«As a result, the physical size of the fuel cell stack can be reduced for the same power, making it lighter and cheaper.

But so is the cost of any method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a similar difference — whether it's doubling the fuel efficiency of every single car and truck on the road (which would cost a few trillion dollars and take at least 15 years) or building scores of new wind turbines for each turbine already turning today or erecting hundreds of new solar cell arrays for every array in use today.

Geologic storage of hydrogen gas could make it possible to produce and distribute large quantities of hydrogen fuel for the growing fuel cell electric vehicle market, the researchers concluded.

We're really looking to solve the barrier in front of PEM fuel cell technology, making it cheaper and therefore deployable to the mass market.»

«It is important for us to understand this, so that we can design new materials, for example, to build better or more efficient solar cells, or make better and more economical use of fossil fuels,» Elmlund said.

The company is doing enough business in such fuel cells for backup electricity, for example, that it makes sense, according to spokesman Daniel Pepitone.