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Here come the bite-size fuel cells

Categories: Hydrogen - Tuesday Apr 8, 2008 09:17

The personal computer was famously derided as a “toy” when it entered the computing world. Some companies in the hydrogen fuel cell industry are counting on toys to make the much-ballyhooed hydrogen economy a reality, if on a small scale.

Hydrogen powered buses

Categories: Alternative Fuels, Hydrogen, Schools - Wednesday Mar 26, 2008 08:45

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Ford Motor Company is rolling out a small fleet of hydrogen powered shuttle buses in the US and Canada. The company says its one small step toward a future without oil.

Start-up says it can make hydrogen with sunlight and water

Categories: Hydrogen, Research - Friday Jan 18, 2008 09:05

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Cheap, clean hydrogen is the holy grail in the green-technology world, and Nanoptek says it could have part of the answer.

The Maynard, Mass.-based company, which Wednesday announced that it has raised $4.7 million, has come up with a low-cost, durable titania electrode that can split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

Sunlight hits the electrode, and the electrode splits the light into a positive charge (called a hole) and an electron. Before the two charges can rejoin, the electron gets captured by the electrode and then is exploited to split water. Silicon solar cells operate on the same principle.

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Categories: Hydrogen, International, Publications, Recycling, Research, Transportation - Friday Nov 2, 2007 11:06

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European Union: The road from landfilling to recycling: common destination, different routes

This brochure presents the EEA?s new country factsheets on waste policies and trends across the EU-25, and summarises some patterns in approaches to waste management that are highlighted by the factsheets.

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)

Historical Changes in Precipitation and Streamflow in the U.S. Great Lakes Basin, 1915-2004
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
From press release:

More precipitation has been falling recently in the Great Lakes Basin than in the more distant past. During the past 90 years, total annual precipitation increased by 4.5 inches and much of that increase occurred during the most recent third of that time span. These are among the findings in a report from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that describes streamflow and precipitation changes in the U.S. Great Lakes Basin.

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Study: Hydrogen Cars Don?t Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Source: Reason Foundation

Switching from gasoline-powered cars to hydrogen cars would not reduce greenhouse gas emissions nor would it eliminate America?s dependence on the Middle East?s energy supplies, according to a new Reason Foundation study.

The Reason Foundation report shows that if the U.S. replaced 20 percent of today?s vehicles with hydrogen cars, CO2 emissions would either drop a tiny amount from 1.67 billion tons per year to 1.63 billion tons, or actually rise to 2.13 billion tons a year, depending upon what method is used to produce the hydrogen.

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