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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.

The group found that although fuel - cell vehicles would produce zero greenhouse - gas emissions during use, the extraction and refinement of hydrogen fuel would release three to five times as much carbon into the air as is released in procuring and refining gasoline and diesel.

Last year, Honda and General Motors Co. entered into a partnership to develop a next - generation fuel system and hydrogen storage technology in the 2020 time frame.

I was not pleased to see, once again, that hydrogen is linked only with fuel - cell technology, which is «many years away» from mass production and costs several times as much as internal combustion technology.

While the use of hydrogen fuels has been a potential greener energy solution for some time, storing hydrogen has always been a problem.

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.

These beasts, about 100 times the mass of the sun, were so large and energetic that they burned all their hydrogen fuel in just a few million years.

Plants have been doing this for quite some time, splitting water's hydrogen apart from its oxygen, but our efforts to turn water into a source of free hydrogen fuel by mimicking them have borne no fruit.

As stars run out of hydrogen fuel and burn helium instead, their luminosity waxes and wanes during several phases of pulsation, interspersed with times of relative calm.

He says prototypes of his company's hydrogen peroxide - fuelled rocket, Black Armadillo, have now crashed «spectacularly» four times out of a total of about 35 tests.

«If we go up four or five times in size and switch to a fuel with a mix of deuterium and tritium,» another type of heavy hydrogen, «we should have break - even plasma conditions — if things work out.»

Established by the Energy Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliaFueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliafueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliability.

At the time, Nocera's group focused on using the captured hydrogen as a chemical fuel, which can either be burned directly or run through a device called a fuel cell to produce electricity.

Fueling time varies with hydrogen fueling pressure and ambient tempeFueling time varies with hydrogen fueling pressure and ambient tempefueling pressure and ambient temperature.

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.

Hear from the HydroGEN consortium at the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting, June 5 — 9, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Huyen Dinh will present «HydroGEN: A Consortium on Advanced Water Splitting Materials,» on Thursday, June 8, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern DayligHydroGEN consortium at the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting, June 5 — 9, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Huyen Dinh will present «HydroGEN: A Consortium on Advanced Water Splitting Materials,» on Thursday, June 8, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern DayligHydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting, June 5 — 9, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Huyen Dinh will present «HydroGEN: A Consortium on Advanced Water Splitting Materials,» on Thursday, June 8, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern DayligHydroGEN: A Consortium on Advanced Water Splitting Materials,» on Thursday, June 8, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Why It Matters: Reducing our nation's reliance on fossil fuels relies on creating technologies to quickly and efficiently convert the power generated at wind farms and other sources into a use - any - time fuel, such as hydrogen molecules.

Hydrogen fuel - cell technology has had a tough time in coming to market in the past.

It's not the first time the brands have worked together, having shared diesel engine tech across the Toyota, BMW and MINI brands for several years as well as collaborating on hydrogen fuel cell tech.

Read Day Eleven of Joe Lorio's diary chronicling his time with the hydrogen - fueled Chevy Equinox.

Read Day Fifteen of Joe Lorio's diary chronicling his time with the hydrogen - fueled Chevy Equinox.

The Mercedes - Benz GLC F ‑ CELL EQ Power combines practical advantages such as a long range (500 kilometres in the standard cycle) and short hydrogen fuelling times with locally emission - free driving.

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.

Publicly, most automakers are ducking the issue and emphasizing potential pitfalls of building hybrid cars with plugs, but pressure is mounting behind the scenes to give the idea some life... «Such development should have the highest research and development priority because it promises to revolutionize transportation economics and to have a dramatic effect on the problems caused by oil dependence,» write George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state, and James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in a June position paper on oil and U.S. national security... They argue that battery development for plug - in hybrids «should for the time being replace the current research and development emphasis on automotive hydrogen fuel cells.»

Since the volumetric energy density of ammonia is three times that of liquid hydrogen, and ammonia combustion can be exceptionally efficient (about the same as burning diesel fuel in turbodiesels), it may be true that a hydrogen economy based upon OTEC and ammonia may be close at hand.

The battery development for plug - in hybrids is of substantial importance and should for the time being replace the current r & d emphasis on automotive hydrogen fuel cells.

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Hydrogen has the highest energy content of any common fuel by weight (about three times more than gasoline), but it has the lowest energy content by volume (about four times less than gasoline).

For a limited time, this report is available free of charge with purchase of the report, «Global Market for Hydrogen Fueling Stations, 2017.»

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.

At the time of the speech, hybrid - electric cars, which offer higher fuel efficiency than regular cars because of electric motors that help drive the wheels, were seen in the United States as but a minor detour or way station en route to a world of hydrogen fuel cells.

Having worked with high pressure hydrogen in the past, I have a hard time imagining the average guy or housewife «filling up the tank» with hydrogen, so I don't see it as a potential general motor fuel.

«We don't need to reinvent the wheel or wait for sci - fi hydrogen fuel cells,» New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote in late June.

If there is a problem, and this has yet to be proven, there is plenty of time to deal with it by building lots of nukes from which we can get electricity and thus hydrogen to build fuels.

The use of nuclear energy to produce liquid fuels is very economic at this point of time, and whilst the production of hydrogen from nuclear electricity is expensive the cost can be reduced by using high temperature steam from nuclear reactors for high temperature electrolysis.

This means that an electrolysis unit using the GridShift method would produce at least four times more fuel in the same - sized machine, or require a unit four times smaller than normal to make the same amount of hydrogen.»

Boeing plans to launch a hydrogen fuel cell - powered light - aircraft prototype within a year, the Sunday Times reports.

Following initial reports a few years back that Vancouver was planning on investing in a fleet of hydrogen - powered transit buses for the 2010 Olympics, we now have confirmation that the city of Whistler will become host to the world's largest fleet of hydrogen fuel - cell buses, just in time for the Games.

For those torn between a plug in electric and an FCV, or hybrid drivers wondering if the «fuel» economy is better, it has a range of up to three times an electric, and hydrogen fuel has much denser energy than gasonline.

One of the oft - heard complaints about hydrogen powered cars is that the fuel tanks can not store their fuel for extended periods — having to vent their contents in two to four days» time.

According to the New York Times, Dr. Ballard remained stalwart in his belief in the superiority of hydrogen over petroleum - based fuels.

:: New York Times Ballard in TreeHugger: Ballard Throws In The Towel on The Hydrogen Car Fuel Cell Update Plug Power Passes 600 Fuel Cells Sold Mark:

This is because it is a relatively straightforward calculation to predict the boil - down time to when the fuel is uncovered (several days) at which the risk of hydrogen generation and deflagration occurs, so just why the simple and obvious expedient of providing cooling water via a temporary pump (i.e. a fire tender) was not implemented by TEPCO in a timely manner is baffling.

By this time next year, there'll be at least three hydrogen fuel - cell vehicles as well.