One of the biggest obstacles to large-scale use of hydrogen-powered fuel cells is in how to store the hydrogen, a task which currently requires high pressure,… which, itself, is energy intensive. Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are aiming to solve this problem by creating new materials in which to store the hydrogen.
Researchers at a Finnish university have come up with a means of significantly reducing the cost of manufacturing fuel cells. Using atomic layer deposition (ALD), the team’s new method doesn’t require expensive platinum, and requires less than half the amount of catalyst currently used methods require.
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Working with industrial partners, the UK’s AFC Energy is on the verge of launching the first commercial-scale implementation of a modular, low cost-high performance hydrogen fuel cell system that it believes can jump-start the hydrogen economy and map out a path to a clean, zero-emissions electricity future.
Stationary fuel cells are now being used to power residential homes, which could allow each residence to generate his own power efficiently.
Fuel cells may hold the key to solving the increasingly urgent problem of how to capture CO2 emissions from coal-fired and other fossil fuel plants, at least that’s what fuel cell proponents assert and the US Dept. of Energy (DOE) intends to find out by conducting a 3-year study and awarding $3 million to FuelCell Energy.
A new Air Products hydrogen fueling plant at the Orange County Sanitation District wastewater facility in Fountain Valley, California is producing clean, renewable electricity and hydrogen fuel and heat for use on-site and in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The wastewater-biogas-power-and-fuel plant could open up significant opportunities to use similar designs and technology to manage water and process agricultural, food and brewery waste streams.
A hydrogen fuel cell-powered hybrid electric bus supplied by UTC Power for the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District has set a performance record by operating for over 10,000 hours. The milestone is another step toward reducing the life cycle cost of hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles, which produce zero emissions and are more than 50% efficient in terms of converting energy to power.
The great promise of hydrogen fuel cells is their potential to take hydrogen generated by low cost solar power, and put it to work at moving your car from point A to point B – all with zero emissions. But, there’s a catch. The current technology relies on a tiny dose of
Researchers at Oxford University are developing the basis for a long lasting, non-toxic, low cost miniature hydrogen fuel cell that could power pocket-sized electronic devices as well as laptops and other portables. The downscaled size would be made possible by using a small cartridge of
