Jan

20

Natural Hydrogen Storage Found

January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have found that hydrates, also known as methane hydrates in one form can hold and store hydrogen. Hydrates are a water ice and usually a natural gas compound that have been explored by researchers as a source of alternative fuel or storage medium for CO2.  The PNNL researchers [...]

Dec

13

More Hydrogen Production Progress

December 13, 2011 | 1 Comment

While a few hold on to the pure hydrogen gas fuel idea, hydrogen for industrial use and fuel production is in great demand with a need for declining prices. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have come up with an extraordinarily efficient two-step process that electrolyzes, or separates, hydrogen atoms [...]

Nov

14

New Insight For Cheaper Ammonia as NH3

November 14, 2011 | 1 Comment

A couple of barriers sit in the way of the ammonia NH3 folks looking for lower costs and a chance at the fuel business. The N part or nitrogen is great stuff, it makes up about 80% of the atmosphere and its highly non-reactive and stabile tendency is a very good thing.  If oxygen and [...]

Oct

31

Better Way to Split Water Developed

October 31, 2011 | 2 Comments

Many research teams have been searching for more efficient catalysts to speed the splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen. The reaction is key to the production of hydrogen as a fuel for use in cars; to generate electricity in fuel cells, the operation of some rechargeable batteries, including zinc-air batteries; and for the industrial [...]

Oct

6

Progress On The Synthetic Leaf

October 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment

MIT’s professor Daniel Nocera has a new paper published for a solar driven hydrogen splitting “leaf” that is made entirely of earth-abundant, inexpensive materials – mostly silicon, cobalt and nickel – that functions in ordinary water.  Past work to produce devices that could use sunlight to split water have relied on corrosive solutions or on [...]

Sep

21

A Credible Free Energy System

September 21, 2011 | 2 Comments

Entropic energy offers a tremendous resource available from the salinity difference between freshwater and seawater, but this energy has yet to be efficiently captured and stored. Penn State’s Bruce E. Logan, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering has demonstrated that di-hydrogen gas can be produced in a single process by capturing the salinity driven energy together [...]

Aug

16

Fast Hydrogen Production Without Platinum

August 16, 2011 | 3 Comments

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest Lab (PNL) have used a common protein to guide the design of a material that can free hydrogen gas to store energy. The synthetic material works 10 times faster than the original source protein found in water-dwelling microbes. A common microbe stores energy in the bonds of hydrogen gas with [...]

May

25

Better Cheaper Hydrogen Production Large & Small

May 25, 2011 | 1 Comment

Two new hydrogen production methods made news this week, one to be small enough to carry and one industrial scale. The industrial size process comes from Dr. Mohamed Halabi a freshly minted PhD at TU Eindhoven in the Netherlands.  The paper is his PhD dissertation, “Sorption Enhanced Catalytic Reforming of Methane for Pure Hydrogen Production [...]

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