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Automakers Criticize Fuel Cells
Categories: Automotive industry, Fuel Cells - Tuesday Mar 11, 2008 08:34Read the full post at Technology Review.
The world’s top automakers’ leaders finally woke up, looked around, and realized what many experts have been saying for years: hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles don’t make much sense. At the auto show in Geneva yesterday, Bob Lutz, GM’s vice chairman, the global-warming skeptic who is nevertheless leading the charge at GM in promoting cleaner vehicles, seems to have come close to conceding that the company’s much advertised fuel-cell program is little more than a marketing gimmick.
Japanese researchers develop fuel cell that works on sunlight and glucose from biomass
Categories: Biofuels, Fuel Cells, Research - Friday Nov 30, 2007 09:34Read the full post at Biopact.
A new type of fuel cell powered by sunlight and glucose derived from biomass is described in the latest issue of the International Journal of Global Energy Issues. The experimental device works by using sunlight to convert the glucose into hydrogen to power the cell, which produces several hundred millivolts. The researchers from Japan’s Oita University think this renewable, green and sweet fuel supply might help tackle climate change.
Researchers Develop Method to Make Fuel Cells More Efficient, Less Expensive
Categories: Fuel Cells, Research - Thursday Nov 1, 2007 02:56Read the full story in Environmental Protection.
The pain at the pump might be short-lived as research from the University of Houston (UH) may eliminate one of the biggest hurdles to the wide-scale production of fuel cell-powered vehicles.
Peter Strasser, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, led the research team in discovering a method to make a fuel cell more efficient and less expensive. The initiative is one of four ongoing fuel cell projects in development at the Cullen College of Engineering at UH.
NREL Publishes Interim Progress Report on Fuel Cell Learning Demonstration
Categories: Energy Research, Fuel Cells, Publications - Wednesday Aug 8, 2007 10:03Read the full post at Green Car Congress.
The US Department of Energy?s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) published an Interim Progress Report summarizing results from the first two years of the Controlled Hydrogen Fleet and Infrastructure Demonstration and Validation Project.