Ontario’s Hydrogenics has won a contract from the German city of Herten to install a hydrogen production-storage-fuel cell system that the city will use to smooth out intermittent wind power generation. “Electrolyzing water into hydrogen using excess intermittent renewable energy is the optimal clean pathway to smart grid stabilization and energy storage capacity,” stated Hydrogenics’ CEO.
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 team of researchers at Michigan State University has solved the mystery of how Geobacter bacteria found in soils manage to clean up nuclear waste and generate electricity at the same time. Going a step further, the team genetically engineered a Geobacter strain that does an even better job of it.
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.
Disposable batteries have been called a “logistical nightmare” by the U.S. Army, and for good reason. With the increasing use of electronic gear, today’s foot soldier has to carry more batteries and the weight adds up. The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency has been actively seeking a solution in the form of portable fuel cells, and now students at the Stevens Institute of Technology are working on a
SiEnergy invented a comparably low temperature fuel cell technology by taking advantage of the fact that thin film cells can operate properly at lower temperatures than the traditional ones. They claim that these are the first thin film fuel cells which can operate in practical applications. In other words, they are saying that thin film fuel cells were not useful until now.
Tobacco has brought wealth, pleasure, poverty, pain and misery to millions, but now its chaotic role in American life seems on the verge of morphing into something that is far more consistently beneficial. Researchers at the University of Maryland have found that tobacco hosts a virus that could be used … [continued]
Sun Catalytix, an American company founded by a MIT professor, is working on a low-cost ‘solar to hydrogen’ power system and plans to launch it within the next 18 months. The product which was announced about two years ago has attracted millions of dollars in investment from the Indian industrial … [continued]
TransAct Energy Corp. and Altergy Systems have entered an agreement which will give TransAct Energy the right to market and sell fuel cell technology made by Altergy Systems for powering and providing power backup for cellphone towers in India. The $10 million agreement gives TransAct the right to sell 10,000 … [continued]
