Hydrogen to play a key role in the transportation sector

30 Oct, 2009 11:48 am Although much of the ink these days about innovative vehicles relates to plug-in hybrids, work continues to explore the potential for hydrogen-based fuel...

Fuel Cell Trains

15 Sep, 2009 02:23 pm NPR's excellent Science Friday series is one of my favorite sources. I just caught up with a recent segment on the development of hydrogen-powered trains...

Biofuels pretenders

1 Sep, 2009 12:19 pm Broadly speaking, in the world of next generation biofuels there are contenders, pretenders, and niches. Over the past decade,...

Power From Formic Acid

20 May, 2008 11:05 am One of the central challenges of our time is the supply of enough environmentally friendly and resource-efficient energy to our society.

Renewables-Based Technology.

4 Jan, 2008 12:25 pm Making hydrogen from sugar is not feasible on any sensible scale, since to do so would require using the world's arable land in competition with food production...

Just Plain Weird: An Odd Star Proves to Be a New Type of Object

5 Dec, 2007 10:35 am On the night after Thanksgiving two years ago, I was at the Keck Telescope, trying to identify some very blue objects in the sky...

Nanotechnology Helps Scientists Make Bendy Sensors for Hydrogen Vehicles

16 Aug, 2007 11:51 am Flexible hydrogen sensors and sensor arrays (i.e., sensory skins) can be used in a wide of range of systems which require demanding low cost,...

Do You Know That Aluminum Can Be Used As a Hydrogen Source for Fuel Cells?

6 Aug, 2007 11:35 am Metal Al has been widely used in industry and daily life because of its light weight and good oxidation resistance. However,...

New Process to Produce Completely Renewable Fuels and Chemicals

10 Nov, 2006 04:02 pm What happens if you overheat vegetable oil or sugar in your kitchen? Vegetable oil smokes and turns brown and sugar turns black...

"My Proposal Is To Concentrate On Green Energy at Large"

22 Jun, 2006 07:31 pm Ibrahim Dincer is chair of the Second International Green Energy Conference that will take place in Ontario, Canada from the 25 to the 29 of June...

To Be or Not to Be: a Hydrogen Economy?

4 Apr, 2006 12:05 am There is much talk about the hydrogen economy taking the baton from the carbon incumbent in the coming decades, but to what degree does this correspond...

The Future of Fuel Cells.

31 Mar, 2006 12:54 pm Fuel cells are often perceived as being part of the future solution to the 'energy crisis', providing 'clean' electricity with virtually no emissions...