Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America’s entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), according to US research published today, Thursday, 24 July, in the Institute of Physics’ Environmental Research Letters. The [...]
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Caption -Caption: This is a photo of the charcoal combustion heater that Japanese scientists say will offer cleaner, more efficient home heating. Credit: Amit Suri Millions of homes in rural areas of Far Eastern countries are heated by charcoal burned on small, hibachi-style portable grills. Scientists in Japan are now reporting development of an improved [...]
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These days many Americans dream of driving a car that runs on anything besides gasoline. That’s why the newest announcement from American Honda Motor Co., Inc. is raising a lot of interest. The automaker said today its first FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicle will roll off the assembly line next month, and go only [...]
Researchers in Colorado are reporting the first successful “wiring up†of hydrogenase enzymes. Those much-heralded proteins are envisioned as stars in a future hydrogen economy where they may serve as catalysts for hydrogen production and oxidation in fuel cells. Their report, describing a successful electrical connection between a carbon nanotube and hydrogenase, is scheduled for [...]
When University of Illinois crop scientist Fred Below began growing tropical maize, the form of corn grown in the tropics, he was looking for novel genes for the utilization of nitrogen fertilizer and was hoping to discover information that could be useful to American corn producers. Now, however, it appears that maize itself may prove [...]
In the latest issue of Elsevier’s Materials Today, the leading magazine for researchers in areas of advanced materials science, Dr. Gilles Dennler of Konarka Austria GmbH and twenty other experts warn that an unseemly race to report organic solar cells (OSCs) with world record efficiencies is leading to a significant number of published papers claiming [...]
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Fujitsu installs Hydrogen Plant, Supply 50 Percent to Cool Data Center in Silicon Valley
posted in EnergyFujitsu announced this week it plans to install a dedicated a hydrogen fuel cell power plant on its Sunnyvale campus in California. The power plant will provide 50 percent of the power needed to cool the Fujitsu’s data center and labs on the campus, while reducing the amount of fossil fuel that must be burned to maintain operations [...]