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More than hydrogen fuel cells (perpetually 10 to 15 years off) and cellulosic ethanol (ditto), electric cars represent a promising near - term solution to America's oil addiction.

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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.

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.

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.

Center said hydrogen fuel cells are the «ultimate technology for the long term» because the cars boast faster re-fill times, perform better in colder weather, and offer longer ranges than electric vehicles.

NIF's goal is to focus the intense energy of 192 giant laser beams on a BB - sized target filled with hydrogen fuel, fusing the hydrogen atoms» nuclei and releasing many times more energy than it took to initiate the fusion reaction.

Image: NIF Scientists with the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced today that they have achieved a critical step in fusion research: For the first time, their hydrogen fuel has given off more energy than it took in.

If the force of gravity were adjusted upward just slightly the stars would consume their hydrogen fuel much more rapidly than they do now and the sun would burn itself out faster.

It will follow the evolution of similar stars, eventually running out of hydrogen fuel, at which point it will shift to burning helium at a much higher temperature, and will eventually, 5 billion years from now, gradually become a red giant with a diameter greater than the Earth's present orbit.

VHTR plants could even produce hydrogen for fuel using high - temperature steam electrolysis, which breaks apart the bonds of water molecules; this process is 50 percent more energy - efficient than existing hydrogen production methods.

Fuel cells are far greener than gas - powered engines because they produce electricity without burning up the hydrogen (or other fuel) that powers tFuel cells are far greener than gas - powered engines because they produce electricity without burning up the hydrogen (or other fuel) that powers tfuel) that powers them.

Natural gas blended with renewable hydrogen also produces less emissions than regular natural gas when used at a power plant or as a transport fuel.

Among the cleanest low - carbon fuels is hydrogen, which can react with oxygen to release energy, emitting nothing more harmful than water (H2O) as the product.

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.

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.

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are vying with next - generation hybrid car technology (which can be plugged in to recharge its battery rather than relying on the gasoline engine) to be the electric car of the future.

The oil business makes enough hydrogen to fuel more than 30 million hydrogen vehicles, he notes, adding, «the petroleum industry will provide us with the hydrogen infrastructure.»

If the strong nuclear force which glues atomic nuclei together were only a few per cent stronger than it is, stars like the sun would exhaust their hydrogen fuel in less than a second.

In only two weeks of driving, the district coordinator of science for the Port Chester, N.Y., public school system has driven at least 600 miles (965 kilometers) on the car and her fuel cell Equinox has gotten as much as 191 miles (307 kilometers) on its three full tanks (each holding slightly more than four kilograms, or 8.8 pounds, of compressed hydrogen gas).

Achieving fusion — nuclear reactions that have the potential to produce copious, clean energy — requires heating hydrogen fuel to more than 100 million degrees Celsius, causing it to become an ionized gas or plasma.

NIF uses the world's highest energy laser to crush peppercorn - sized targets filled with fusion fuel (a combination of hydrogen isotopes) to a temperature and pressure greater than in the core of the sun.

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.

That hydrogen buildup was the result of hot steam coming into contact with overheated nuclear fuel rods covered by a cladding of zirconium alloy, or «zircaloy» — the material used as fuel - rod cladding in all water - cooled nuclear reactors, which constitute more than 90 percent of the world's power reactors.

The device could make hydrogen cars affordable for many more consumers because it produces hydrogen using nickel, iron and cobalt — elements that are much more abundant and less expensive than the platinum and other precious metals that are currently used to produce hydrogen fuel.

Fusion is more efficient than fission, but even if we enclose the sun in a perfect Dyson sphere, we'll still never convert more than about 0.08 percent of the sun's mass to energy we can use, because once the sun has consumed about a tenth of its hydrogen fuel, it will end its lifetime as a normal star, expand into a red giant, and begin to die.

They concluded that we'd lower greenhouse gas emissions more by driving gasoline / electric hybrid cars than by driving fuel cell cars run on hydrogen from coal.

Because hydrogen fuel cells operate more efficiently at less - than - maximum power, their advantage relative to diesel generators rises, he said.

Hydrogen can also be split from water in high - temperature nuclear reactors or generated from fossil fuels such as coal or natural gas, with the resulting carbon dioxide captured and sequestered rather than released into the atmosphere.

PHWRs are similar to PWRs, but use raw uranium rather than enriched uranium oxide as fuel, and deploy heavy water — in which hydrogen is replaced by deuterium — as both moderator and coolant.

Due to methane gas, as a primary energy source, having a noticeably lower cost than electricity, hydrogen could be a cheaper fuel for vehicles than electricity.

The improvement transformed a catalyst that created two or three oxygen molecules per second to one that produces more than 100 per second — with a corresponding increase in the production of protons and electrons that can be used to create hydrogen fuel.

Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising green energy solution, producing electricity much more efficiently and cleanly than combustion engines.

This method will require a small amount of hydrogen to be shipped from Earth to fuel the reaction, but this is a lot lighter than the alternative of shipping lots of oxygen.

A new report on fuel cell vehicles from IHS Automotive forecasts that global production of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) will reach more than 70,000 vehicles annually by 2027, as more automotive OEMs bring FCEVs to market.

When a star less than eight times the mass of our Sun runs out of the supply of hydrogen fueling the thermonuclear reaction raging in its stellar core, it may transform into a red giant instead of ending its life in a dramatic supernova explosion.

Why It Matters: Although the catalyst requires more energy to run than a conventional platinum catalyst, the insight garnered from this result might eventually help make hydrogen fuel in an environmentally friendly, affordable way, the researchers report in the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

His professional career in alternative energy research has spanned more than 25 years, centering on development of solar energy conversion devices and on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

Dinh has more than 15 years of experience in direct methanol, hydrogen polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM), and zinc / air fuel cells at national laboratories and in industry.

The powertrain is topped by a voltage - control unit that boosts and regulates the electricity created by the hydrogen fuel - cell stack, which is 33 - percent smaller than before thanks to cells that are 20 - percent thinner (down to a single millimeter per cell).

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

When asked about hydrogen as a practical fuel, Bereisa told us, «There's a lot more hydrogen production around than people think, so if the country wanted to move to a hydrogen economy, it could get done pretty quickly and with a lot less investment than we're already seeing in the current stimulus package.»

Hydrogen - powered fuel - cell development programs fell off the automotive radar screen when the global economy faltered in 2008 and automakers focused on immediate survival rather than future products.

Meanwhile Toyota, the world's largest automaker and Korean giant Hyundai are placing long - term bets on hydrogen fuel cells, PHEVs and HEVs rather than pure EVs.

We don't even know how much hydrogen fuel will cost, although the best guess is closer to expensive gasoline than to cheap gasoline.

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.

Hyundai expects fewer than 1000 examples of the 2014 Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell to be leased between next spring and 2016, and they are only available to customers in Orange County or Los Angeles, where the state of California has already helped establish a large number of hydrogen filling stations.

After more than a century of fossil fuel - powered dominance the automobile is in for a serious overhaul; electric and hydrogen - powered cars have arrived and fast developing self - driving capabilities may relegate us all to the back seat.

Ford's plans are decidedly less ambitious than those made by crosstown rival General Motors, which last month announced plans to bring out 20 new battery - electric and hydrogen - fuel - cell vehicles by 2023.

The 2016 Toyota Mirai is a comfortable, high - tech sedan with more range than any plug - in electric vehicle, but its hydrogen fuel - cell power system limits initial availability to certain regions of California.

Los Angeles, Nov. 27 — Ford Motor Company will raise the bar in the hydrogen fuel cell race today at the 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show when it unveils an all - new fuel cell powered Explorer that can travel 350 miles on a single fill - up, more than any fuel cell vehicle on the road.