Sentences with phrase «powered by fuel cells»

These electric trucks are powered by fuel cells, which convert hydrogen and air into electricity while emitting only water vapor.

Technological changes play a big part in combatting climate change, and on 10/10/10 two of the most poignant examples of that are: 850 universities in China, India, and the US will join in the Great Power Race clean energy competition; and, in Barbados, a group of young people will demonstrate a hovercraft they've built which is powered by fuel cells.

The Environmentally Friendly Inter-City Aircraft powered by Fuel Cells (ENFICA - FC) project will receive â «¬ 2.9 million (US$ 3.9 million) in funding from the European Union as part of the aeronautics and space priority of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).

The trucks whose refrigeration units are powered by fuel cells, a clean technology that makes energy silently and with dramatically reduced emissions that makes energy silently and with dramatically reduced emissions.

Also, it is inefficient to use electricity to generate hydrogen, transport the hydrogen, and turn it back into electricity in vehicles powered by fuel cells.

Most scientists agree that we can reduce our carbon emissions over time by using everything from solar energy to carbon sequestration, from windmills to nuclear power plants, from hybrid autos to those powered by fuel cells.

In the Greentech column of this weekend's Autos section in The New York Times, Norman Mayersohn has a nice overview of Honda's new hydrogen - fueled FCX Clarity, a (very) limited - edition sedan powered by fuel cells that, Mayersohn writes, Honda will begin leasing to a handful of private customers next summer.

Early reports suggested that the next Murano would be based on the Terra concept from last year's Paris motor show, but that blockier show car — which was powered by a fuel cell — appears to have been shelved in favor of this creased, swoopy concept.

Mercedes - Benz is not providing many details on the F 015 Luxury in Motion concept's powertrain, but does say that the car uses an electric drivetrain powered by a fuel cell.

The LF - 1 concept could be powered by fuel cell, hybrid, plug - in hybrid, gasoline, or even all - electric.

Recently, the plant started to produce the Mercedes - Benz SLS AMG and a small series of the B - Class powered by a fuel cell.

The LF - 1 concept could be powered by fuel cell, hybrid, plug - in hybrid, gasoline, or even all - electric powertrains.

However, Hyundai is looking to slash fuel usage significantly, and earn global bragging rights for technology at the same time, by introducing a Tucson powered by a fuel cell.

The Mirai is powered by a fuel cell which generates electricity from a chemical reaction between atmospheric Hydrogen and Oxygen.

Toyota has become the first manufacturer to build a production car ready for sale that is powered by a fuel cell.

In fact, we can clearly see its elements: cars, powered by fuels cells; aeroplanes, powered by hydrogen; and maglevs, powered by electricity, probably nuclear.

Power can either be through the use of electric motors powered by fuel cell technology or by improved internal combustion engines.

Last year AeroVironment, a Californianfirm, flew an unmanned surveillance plane, the Global Observer, which was powered by a fuel cell.

Not exact matches

Battery - powered cars offered by the likes of Tesla are gaining traction faster than fuel cell vehicles backed by Hyundai and Toyota Motor Corp..

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

And other carmakers like Toyota Motor and Honda are investing heavily in eco-friendly cars; however, they are betting big that the vehicles will be powered by hydrogen fuel cells, rather than rechargeable electric batteries.

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.

Speeches came from a variety of speakers, including a science broadcaster and writer, a Pakistani - born Canadian Muslim who works in STEM, a Pakistani - born professor who studies cell biology and anatomy; and, an emergency room physician who helped start the process to phase out coal - fueled power plants by 2030 in Alberta.

And on a different technological track, hydrogen - powered fuel - cell cars — powered by devices Musk has publicly called «fools cells» — are beginning to enter the market, led by Japanese automakers.

Supporting a rail system powered by hydrogen fuel cells, for example, would require an entirely new infrastructure because hydrogen, being a small molecule, would leak through existing pipelines.

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.

Saab's combustion - control engine has leapfrogged the manufacturers still studying fuel cells, methanol fuels, and electrics by reinventing an ordinary internal - combustion gasoline power plant that recycles unburned components of its exhaust.

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.

The board is a DC / DC converter that evens out the power generated by the fuel cells, which fluctuates with the amount of sweat produced by a user, and turns it into constant power with a constant voltage.

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 power failure, the team found, is caused by disruption to the cells» mitochondria — the tiny powerhouses that fuel all cell life — when they become destabilized during the «resuscitation» period after a heart attack and trigger chaotic cell - to - cell signaling that interferes with the heart's entire electrical network.

By doubling the power density of the fuel cell stack, GM engineers halved its size as well as halved the amount of expensive materials, such as platinum catalysts, that such fuel cells require.

Ultimately, hybrid vehicles and electric cars — whether powered by batteries or fuel cells — will deliver even more environmental rewards.

Unfortunately, the other great hope for vehicles that exhaust no carbon — those powered by hydrogen - fed fuel cells — remains too pricey for broad sales.

Sandia leads a number of other hydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hydrogen.

Automobiles powered by hydrogen fuel cells are often lampooned as the cars of the future — and they always will be.

«That's why we are concentrating on building high - technology combustion engine cars, hybrid cars, as well as electric cars powered either by batteries or fuel cells.

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.

Fuel - cell vehicles have long promised several major advantages over those powered by electricity or hydrocarbons.

A microbial fuel cell — which generates power by feeding organic matter (which saliva has lots of) to bacteria, which, in turn, produce electrons — was a natural candidate for their projects.

However, its future potential uses are significantly limited by scarcity and cost, as well as the fact that platinum readily binds with carbon monoxide, which «poisons» the desired reactions, for example in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells, which are the leading contenders for small - scale and mobile power generation not based on batteries or combustion engines.

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Electric vehicles, powered by hydrogen fuel cells, provide the demanded driving range and low environmental impact.

A new design of algae - powered fuel cells that is five times more efficient than existing plant and algal models, as well as being potentially more cost - effective to produce and practical to use, has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

While this is still only around a tenth of the power density provided by conventional solar fuel cells, these new BPVs have several attractive features, they say.

A foldable, paper - based, urine - fueled, microbial fuel cell system that powers an emergency radio beacon has been developed by researchers at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol).

The capabilities of Test Cell 1 include a fuel / air combustion skid for energy input; cooling systems for heat removal; 130 kW eddy - current dynamometer for precision power measurements; and instrumentation, system protection, and power control channels.For measuring the thermal output of fuel - fired thermal energy systems, such as a gas - fired liquid - metal evaporator for Stirling engines, Test Cell 1 offers a gas - gap calorimeter, which simulates the engine by allowing the liquid metal to condense at operating temperatures.

Controlling methanogenesis and improving power production of microbial fuel cell by lauric acid dosing

Cell - Tech ™ is designed to enable you to perform better in explosive movements such as jumping, and 100 metre sprinting which require high intensity power output fuelled by the ATP - PC system.