Sentences with phrase «produced by a fuel cell»

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.

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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.
Anabolic steroids work by helping the body's muscle cells produce more protein which, as long as the athletes works out, leads to increased muscle size and strength and, at the same time, also allows the body to produce more ATP, the «fuel» muscles need to move.
The BPEC cell developed by the researchers is based on the naturally occurring process of photosynthesis in plants, in which light drives electrons that produce storable chemical energetic molecules, that are the fuels of all cells in the animal and plant worlds.
In the pancreas, pancreatic beta cells produce insulin, the hormone that provides fuel to the body's cells by transporting glucose.
One group, led by Ryan O'Hayre, a materials scientist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, reported last year in Science that it had produced an intermediate temperature fuel cell capable of producing 455 mW / cm2.
A fuel - cell electric vehicle works by converting hydrogen to electricity, producing only heat and water in the process.
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.
For this reason methanol fuel cells will be used, where the combination of methanol and oxygen produces water and carbon dioxide as a waste product (note that the carbon footprint in this case is neutral in that the methanol will be produced by photosynthesis, removing CO2 from the atmosphere).
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.
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.
Producing electricity in a hydrogen fuel cell has one by - product: water.
The majority of modern fuel cells, specifically those used for automotive applications, are proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, which functions by exchanging protons across an acidic polymer membrane to produce electricity and heat.
Daimler's plans to start mass - producing fuel cell vehicles next year were severely limited by the lack of public hydrogen filling stations in Germany.
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.
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.
Coenzyme Q has been called the «spark plug» of the cell since all fuels being broken down by mitochondria to produce ATP rely on its action.
Because a fuel cell is rechargeable, the catalyst also «charges» the fuel cell by producing hydrogen.
It basically works by allowing our bodies to produce more ATP (Adenosine Tri-Phosphate) which is actually a form of fuel or energy used by cells within our bodies.
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.
Have students test their Fuel cell by checking the voltage produced using voltmeter.
What I mean by that, is instead of using the fuel cell to produce electricity, is there a product where the fuel cell is used to split water and half the gas is used for the ICE and the other goes...
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The «Hyundai N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo» concept, inspired by the passion of N, will be coming exclusively to PlayStation ®'s Gran Turismo video game series The Hyundai N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo's powertrain is based on world's first mass - produced Hyundai hydrogen fuel cell system, highlighting Hyundai Motor's passion for performance and sustainability.
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 Jeep Commander 2 is a second - generation sport - utility concept vehicle powered by fuel - cell technology that the automaker says produces near - zero emissions.
Insulin, which is produced by «beta cells» in the pancreas, helps in the process of moving glucose into the cells of the body where it is converted into fuel.
Most auto makers agree that fuel - cell cars powered by hydrogen produced with renewable energy sources are the end game since they would rely on no fossil fuels and emit only pure water.
At the Paris Auto Show in September 2012, Hyundai announced that it plans to begin producing a commercial production fuel cell model (based on the ix35) in December 2012 and hopes to deliver 1,000 of them by 2015.
Producing hydrogen and oxygen by the electrolysis of water (the hydrogen could later be used to power clean fuel - cell vehicles, oxygen has many uses);
The Clarity will be powered by a hydrogen fuel cell stack — running along the car's center tunnel between the front seats — that generates electricity but produces zero exhaust emissions at the tailpipe.
But the upside is three-fold: (i) your tax reduction or dividend check will offset much, perhaps more than 100 %, of those price increases; (ii) you'll be able to minimize your tax bite by cutting down on fuel usage (e.g., shortening those country drives, buying locally - grown produce, purchasing «green power» from wind and solar cells); and (iii) Americans» combined behavior changes in response to the carbon tax will go a long way toward protecting the climate and averting the cataclysmic consequences of unchecked global warming.
A more certain method of reducing global arming caused by both fossil - fuel soot and carbon dioxide is to convert vehicles from fossil fuels to electric, plug - in hybrid or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, where the electricity or hydrogen is produced by a renewable energy sources [sic], such as wind, solar geothermal, hydroelectric, wave, or tidal power.»
Producing electricity from solar cells reduces air pollutants and greenhouse gases by about 90 percent in comparison to using conventional fossil fuel technologies, claims a study called «Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles», to be published this month in «Environmental Science & Technology».
Also, we urge you to be mindful that the hydrogen producing «reformers» used by stationary fuel cells typically emit lower amounts of NOX and SOX per unit of useful work than do the furnaces, gas heaters, and air conditioners that they might one day supplant as heat sources.
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