Sentences with phrase «then hydrogen fuel»

If not, then hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will probably be available.

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The hydrogen is then transported to a hydrogen fueling station, he added.

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.

Fuel cells produce hydrogen, store it and then convert it into electricity.

Instead of heating a fossil fuel, his technique, called solid state ammonia synthesis, works by drawing hydrogen out of water vapour through a charged membrane, and then reacting it with nitrogen.

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 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.

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.

That could then lead to even more fueling stations that can accept hydrogen and support the continued growth of the fuel - cell electric vehicle market.»

The study shows that public attention has jumped from one alternative fuel to the next in continuous waves: first with methanol, natural gas and plug - in electric vehicles in the late 1980s and early 1990s, then to hybrid electric vehicles, hydrogen, and biofuels in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Heat from uncovered fuel could ignite the zirconium cladding, and the super-heated metal could then oxidize steam, releasing hydrogen and oxygen.

Rechargeable batteries are too heavy for the job, so engineers are planning to try a technology that would use current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen during the day, and then reverse the process at night via fuel cells to produce electricity.

Lord envisions that excess hydrogen produced throughout the year could be brought to geologic storage sites and then piped to cities during the summer, when the demand for driving fuels peaks.

It describes chaos and conflict between top officials of TEPCO and the emergency staff formed by then - prime minister Naoto Kan in the most critical phase of the crisis, while workers were battling to control a buildup of explosive hydrogen inside three reactor vessels whose fuel cores had become exposed.

Hydrogen Hydrogen - based energy storage looks great on paper: Use electricity to split hydrogen out of water, then convert the hydrogen back into electricity in a fuel cell whenHydrogen Hydrogen - based energy storage looks great on paper: Use electricity to split hydrogen out of water, then convert the hydrogen back into electricity in a fuel cell whenHydrogen - based energy storage looks great on paper: Use electricity to split hydrogen out of water, then convert the hydrogen back into electricity in a fuel cell whenhydrogen out of water, then convert the hydrogen back into electricity in a fuel cell whenhydrogen back into electricity in a fuel cell when needed.

A leaf makes twice as much hydrogen as it does oxygen, and then it stores the result as a solid fuel.

The hydrogen can then be converted into hydrocarbon fuels or simple hydrogen gas.

The next step is to test the new catalyst in devices incorporating electrodes and other components for converting the protons and electrons to hydrogen fuel — and then later, with light - absorbing compounds to provide energy to drive the whole reaction.

The production method involves processing biogas to deliver renewable hydrogen and then incorporating the renewable hydrogen into conventional liquid fuels via selected refinery... Read more →

One of the most promising ideas for storing renewable energy is to use the excess electricity generated from renewables to split water into oxygen and hydrogen; the hydrogen can then be fed into fuel - cell vehicles.

Molecular Tank: Researchers and engineers are trying to create a hydrogen fuel system that stores hydrogen safely and discharges hydrogen easily, which can then be used in fuel cells or other applications.

Currently, fertilizer is made using natural gas (steam reforming of methane to generate hydrogen to feed into the Haber process)-- but with the new advances (http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/07/researchers-at.html), it should be possible to generate that hydrogen directly from water using sunlight; feed the hydrogen into the Haber process (energy expensive, true, but doable), and then you have your ammonia, convert half of that to nitrate, and there you have your ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which currently accounts for about 1/2 of all agricultral fossil fuel use.

If you can make them use the water environment as fuel to catalyze a chemical reaction, then can you make a version that functions to break up water to hydrogen and oxygen for green energy generation without having to add the required energy directly?

A fuel cell takes hydrogen and oxidizes it to create an electrical charge, which is then channeled into a battery and used by electric motors.

Using hydrogen fuel cell technology, the Mirai converts hydrogen to electricity, which is then used to power an electric motor.

Another of his prize - winning exhibits, Tabernas Desert Run, involved him making an improvised hydrogen - fuelled bicycle, riding across the Spanish desert on it and then painting a botanical watercolour of a cactus using the bicycle's only waste product: water.

If this is a bad assumption, then his conclusions concerning cars and airplanes, in particular, fall down — the energy won't be available to create the hydrogen fuel cells he is depending on, nor the hydrogen for a massive air network.

The water is first electrolyzed to produce hydrogen, and then the CO2 and hydrogen are combined in a fuel reactor to produce gas using the company's process.

So, if you could create liquid hydrocarbons that are compatible with gasoline cars, then the adoption cycle would be a lot easier than switching over to electric or hydrogen or some other type of fuel for cars.

Currently, fertilizer is made using natural gas (steam reforming of methane to generate hydrogen to feed into the Haber process)-- but with the new advances (/ / www.greencarcongress.com/2008/07/researchers-at.html), it should be possible to generate that hydrogen directly from water using sunlight; feed the hydrogen into the Haber process (energy expensive, true, but doable), and then you have your ammonia, convert half of that to nitrate, and there you have your ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which currently accounts for about 1/2 of all agricultral fossil fuel use.

It then runs the hydrogen through a fuel cell to make electric current.

Hydrogen is not so much a fuel as a form of storage, holding energy generated by electricity and then releasing it without producing carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for half of global warming.

The hydrogen could then be reused to generate electricity when needed, injected into the heating system or used as low - emission fuel for hydrogen fuel - cell cars.

The fuel cell needs to have a converter built into the car that can convert gas to hydrogen from gas or water, then it is used in the fuel cell to create the energy to power the car.

«The Holy Grail of solar research is to use sunlight efficiently and directly to «split» water into its elemental constituents - hydrogen and oxygen - and then use the hydrogen as a clean fuel,» said Gray.

(One zero - carbon possibility is «synthetic gas,» which uses electricity to split hydrogen from water and then mixes it with carbon dioxide to form substitute hydrocarbon fuels.

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chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or damafuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - 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Although radiation leakage has been reported, the reactor core containment is said still to be intact, But if the cooling operation is not successful then there is a risk that, aside from the (hopefully low) possibility of a explosion as at Chernobyl, or a hydrogen explosion (as was feared at one time at Three Mile Island in the USA), melting fuel could burn through the core and the floor of the reactor building and enter the soil, a risk that would be heightened if the floor structure was cracked by the earthquake.

Among the biggest advantages of the electric drive train is diversification of the power source, you can then use the electric grid, a very efficient ICE that only runs at a specific RPM and load to run a generator for additional range, a hydrogen or methanol fuel cell, or a Mr. Fusion, it really doesn't matter.

Exciting new technologies are assisting with this transition: some convert fast growing grasses to ethanol using biochemistry, some convert waste into gases (a mix of hydrogen and carbon monoxide called synthesis gas) that are then converted into ethanol, and others use algae or other microorganisms to make fuel directly from water or sunlight.

That hydrogen could then be stored and used later to generate electricity (via fuel cell or combustion turbine) when the power is most needed, thereby smoothing out the variability of wind.

The hydrogen is storage in low pressure tanks and then with the uses of a fuel cell generates electricity and heat supplying the public energy grids.

The same article reports that Apple will use hydrogen from natural gas coming from Piedmont Natural Gas in the fuel cells and then, to offset that natural gas use, it will produce landfill methane gas or some other biogas.

Then you can use it in fuel cells in your own home to create the electricity you need on demand or fuel your hydrogen powered car with it... no more grid losses... no more black outs... no more gas stations... no more oil imports.

If the oil companies don't get the hydrogen fueling stations built because they want to keep us addicted to oil, then companies like Wal Mart and car dealerships will start building hydrogen stations.

The solid oxide fuel cell under the coals then converts carbon and hydrogen into electricity, and is described as a sort of reverse photosynthesis:

The bionic leaf is able to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen and then with the help of hydrogen - loving bacteria, produce liquid fuels and potentially many other products.

The coal would be converted into a gas and then into hydrogen, for potential use in powering fuel cells.

Under home hydrogen it was suggested that water could be broken up into water hydrogen and oxygen in a home - scale plant when power was cheap and plentiful and these could then be recombined in a fuel - cell with regeneration of electricity as required.

As for solutions if CO2 is a big problem: I think we should just replace coal - fired power stations with nuclear, and then shift terrestrial transportation first to natural gas and then hydrogen, leaving the fossil fuels for air - travel.