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• Hydrogen RC Car Completes 2,357 Laps in France Hydrogen Cars Now (Yesterday) - Thanks to Google Translate for this story in French (and out of France) that is now readable in English. The hydrogen fuel cell remote control car (pictured above) ran for 2,357 laps or 212.1 km at the 24 hours of St. Jo green race...
• Tests lead to doubling of fuel cell life ScienceDaily (2 days ago) - Researchers working to improve durability in fuel cell powered buses have discovered links between electrode degradation processes and bus membrane durability. The team is quantifying the effects of electrode degradation stressors in the operating cycle of the bus on the membrane lifetime....
• Duke Sees Gold in Them Thar Fuel Cells Hydrogen Cars Now (2 days ago) - Duke University engineers have come up with a novel method to create hydrogen that also creates nearly zero carbon monoxide in the process. The materials used are nanoparticles of gold and iron oxide (rust). In April 2013 I wondered on this blog if iron is...
• Engineers devise new way to produce clean hydrogen ScienceDaily (3 days ago) - Engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and their environmental implications....
• Goldman Sachs to Invest $486 Million in Japan Renewable Energy Renewable Energy World (3 days ago) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plans to invest as much as 50 billion yen ($487 million) in renewable energy projects in Japan in the next five years, tapping demand for electricity produced from solar and wind-power generators....
• New method for producing clean hydrogen ScienceDaily (3 days ago) - Engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and their environmental implications....
• Japan Oil & Gas Companies Get Ready for Fuel Cell Cars Hydrogen Cars Now (3 days ago) - Major oil and gas companies in Japan are getting ready for the 2015 rollout of commercial hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. In April 2013, the first fueling station in Japan, operated by JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, to offer both gasoline and compressed hydrogen...
• Japan may subsidize, deregulate 100 new hydrogen fuel stations Autoblog Green (4 days ago) - Filed under: Hydrogen, Japan Here's a story that certainly plays to stereotypes: a new network of hydrogen refueling stations being built in Japan are the work of, surprise, oil companies. As The Japan Times reports, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. and 12 other companies...
• Bacteria use hydrogen, carbon dioxide to produce electricity ScienceDaily (4 days ago) - Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon....
• Add boron for better batteries ScienceDaily (7 days ago) - A graphene-boron compound is theoretically capable of storing double the energy of common graphite anodes used in lithium-ion batteries....
• Moniz Unanimously Confirmed As New DOE Chief Renewable Energy World (Thursday, 16 May) - Ernie Moniz has been unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next Secretary of Energy, in a 97-0 vote (with three nonvoters). He succeeds Stephen Chu who held the position for four years....
• Significant improvement in performance of solar-powered hydrogen generation ScienceDaily (Wednesday, 15 May) - Using a powerful combination of microanalytic techniques that simultaneously image photoelectric current and chemical reaction rates across a surface on a micrometer scale, researchers have shed new light on what may become a cost-effective way to generate hydrogen gas directly from water and sunlight....
• Forze IV Race Car Goes Crowd Funding Hydrogen Cars Now (Wednesday, 15 May) - Here is an interesting press release that came across my desk this morning. The student race team at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands is raising money for their hydrogen car by “crowd funding”. Press Release Delft – 15-05-2013. The Forze student race...
• H2USA is DOE's new partnership to support hydrogen fueling stations Autoblog Green (Tuesday, 14 May) - Filed under: Hydrogen, Legislation and Policy, USA The US Department of Energy (DOE) has kicked off H2USA, a public-private partnership focused on advancing hydrogen infrastructure to bring more transportation energy options to US consumers, including fueling up their fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). This is...
• H2USA Launched by DOE to Promote Hydrogen Infrastructure Hydrogen Cars Now (Tuesday, 14 May) - On March 12, 2013 I had talked about how the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) was intending to launch a new public-private program called H2USA that would promote the building of hydrogen infrastructure to support fuel cell vehicles. Yesterday, on May 13, 2014 the...
• Finland's New Energy Solutions Renewable Energy World (Tuesday, 14 May) - You may not know much about Finland, but you certainly know the powerhouse technology company that became a household name across the globe and drove the nation’s economic expansion through the 1990s-2000s. Nokia generated a quarter of Finnish economic growth from 1998-2007, prompting a new...
• Oxygen consumption of individual cells measured: Scanning electrochemical microscopy decisively optimized ScienceDaily (Monday, 13 May) - How active a living cell is can be seen by its oxygen consumption. The method for determining this consumption has now been significantly improved. The problem up to now was that the measuring electrode altered the oxygen consumption in the cell's environment much more than...
• Scanning electrochemical microscopy decisively optimized: Oxygen consumption of individual cells measured ScienceDaily (Monday, 13 May) - How active a living cell is can be seen by its oxygen consumption. The method for determining this consumption has now been significantly improved. The problem up to now was that the measuring electrode altered the oxygen consumption in the cell's environment much more than...
• New endurance record for small electric unmanned aerial vehicle ScienceDaily (Friday, 10 May) - Using liquid hydrogen fuel stored in a new NRL-developed cryogenic fuel storage tank, the flight shatters the previous 26-hour record set by the UAV in 2009....
• Carlos Ghosn: it makes sense to focus on electric vehicles, cooperate on fuel cells Autoblog Green (Friday, 10 May) - Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hydrogen, Nissan, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Renault, New York Auto Show The last time we spoke with Renault-Nissan head Carlos Ghosn, at the Geneva Motor Show, he spoke about the 70,000 all-electric vehicles his company's have sold to happy customers and how these vehicles...
• New technique to improve quality control of lithium-ion batteries ScienceDaily (Thursday, 9 May) - Researchers have created a new tool to detect flaws in lithium-ion batteries as they are being manufactured, a step toward reducing defects and inconsistencies in the thickness of electrodes that affect battery life and reliability....
• Finland’s Hydrogen Roadmap Unveiled Hydrogen Cars Now (Thursday, 9 May) - Because I was born ½ Finnish, this story is near and dear to my heart. The Finns have decided it’s time to get with the program and prepare for the upcoming age of hydrogen cars. And to this a company called VTT Technical Research Centre...
• Creating Hydrogen from Methane without CO2 Byproduct Hydrogen Cars Now (Wednesday, 8 May) - Over 90-percent of the hydrogen created today is done so by the process of steam reforming natural gas / methane. In this process, CO2 is created as a byproduct. And a substantial portion of this CO2 (a greenhouse gas) is simply released into the atmosphere...
• DOE to Sponsor H-Prize for Home Hydrogen Refueler for Cars Hydrogen Cars Now (Tuesday, 7 May) - The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking information in regard to sponsoring an H-Prize competition for developing cost effective home hydrogen refueling stations for consumer automobiles. According to the DOE, “The FCT Office is seeking information related to a potential H-Prize competition involving...
• The Finnish hydrogen Roadmap: Hydrogen to Join Electricity in Ending Traffic Pollution Renewable Energy World (Tuesday, 7 May) - Global expectations for hydrogen are currently sky-high. Transport applications stand at the threshold of commercialisation, while ahead lies an investment boom in the hydrogen distribution network. The changeover to hydrogen based on natural gas would already mean a potential saving of billion in Finland's balance...
• EU Debate Over Climate Change Policy Could Dampen Renewable Energy Growth Renewable Energy World (Monday, 6 May) - Europe's program to halt climate change is in disarray with lawmakers in the region expressing concern the drift is undermining the planet's most significant effort to combat global warming....
• DOE starts planning H-Prize, a hydrogen refueling station competition Autoblog Green (Friday, 3 May) - Filed under: Hydrogen, USA For those understandably confused about whether the federal government is advancing or retreating from supporting hydrogen fuel-cell transportation technologies, it looks like the government is now in its advancing stage. The US Department of Energy is considering sponsoring what it calls...
• Tongji Auto Showcases Fuel Cell Volare Concept Hydrogen Cars Now (Thursday, 2 May) - Tongji Automotive Design & Research Institute, a part of Tongji University in Shanghai, China has developed a fuel cell concept car they have named the Volare (pictured above). The vehicle was premiered last week at the Auto China 2013 Motor Show. Developed by both...
• Aston Martin Rapide S Hydrogen Car Takes 1st Lap Hydrogen Cars Now (Wednesday, 1 May) - On April 16, 2013 I had talked about the Aston Martin Rapide S hydrogen hybrid dual fuel car and its upcoming 24-Hours of Nürburgring Race. Are we there yet? Well, not quite but almost. The Rapide S hydrogen, however, has completed a test lap at...
• Verizon to Invest $100 Million in U.S. Solar and Fuel Cells Renewable Energy World (Tuesday, 30 April) - Verizon Communications Inc., the second-largest U.S. phone company, plans to spend $100 million on solar systems and fuel cells to power 19 U.S. facilities....

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