Feb
16
Can Ammonia aka NH3 Be a Fuel?
February 16, 2010 | 4 Comments
Last week Houston investment banker and peak oil prognosticator Matt Simmons popped a plan to use wind, the generated electricity and air to manufacture ammonia. Then just use it to fuel cars. The price to start up is “only” $25 billion plus a new generation of cars for consumers to buy. Is ammonia, NH3, remotely [...]
Dec
9
Sandia Might Have a Part of the Carbon Back to Fuel Process
December 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
Using concentrated solar energy for power, a research team from Sandia National Laboratories is building a prototype device intended to chemically “reenergize” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using concentrated solar power. Carbon monoxide could then be used to serve as a building block to synthesize a liquid combustible fuel, such as methanol or even gasoline, [...]
Dec
7
A New Enzyme to Break Free Hydrogen
December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A team from the University of Oxford in the UK and CNRS in France has developed an optimized system that will produce hydrogen gas.
Powered by light’s energy and using an hydrogenase and photosensitizer co-attached to a TiO2 nanoparticle the lab sized apparatus production is 6 times higher than a process based in bimolecular (and [...]
Dec
1
Ultra High Pressures Might Become a New Storage Method for Hydrogen
December 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
Filled with enthusiasm, scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. Led by Maddury Somayazulu, the Carnegie team found that the normally unreactive, noble gas xenon combines with molecular hydrogen (H2) under pressure to form a previously unknown solid material [...]
Oct
9
On the Path to Free Hydrogen from Biology
October 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
In an effort that should help those working towards ‘solar H2-farms’ in which microorganisms produce bio hydrogen fuel from sunlight and water, scientists from Oxford University and universities in Germany have discovered how oxygen stops green algae from producing hydrogen.
The international European team have reported the results two papers, one in the journal JACS and [...]
Aug
19
On the Path To Renewable Hydrogen
August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
Hydrogen is the key to cheap and abundant fuels. Carbon, plentiful and available in a wide array of forms is hardly in any short supply, but hydrogen seems to end up bound back with oxygen forming water. Breaking hydrogen back out, cheaply, is a goal of major importance.
A researcher team at the Dalian Institute of [...]
Aug
17
Blacklight Power Gets an Independent Verification
August 17, 2009 | 7 Comments
Rowan University researchers professors K.V. Ramanujachary, Amos Mugweru, and Peter Jansson have released their report outlining the results of an off-site replication and independent testing of the new Blacklight power system. The team independently formulated and tested fuels that on demand generated energy greater than that of combustion at power levels of kilowatts using BLP’s [...]
Jul
3
Chicken Feathers Can Store Lots of Hydrogen
July 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
Carbonized chicken feather fibers can hold vast amounts of hydrogen according to Richard P. Wool, Ph.D., professor of chemical engineering and director of the Affordable Composites from Renewable Resources program at the University of Delaware in Newark.
Chicken feather fibers are mostly made of keratin, a natural protein that forms strong, hollow tubes. When heated, the [...]
May
12
A Hint of Hydrogen Hope
May 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
A hydrogen rich compound discovered by Yu Lin, lead author of a paper describing the work and a graduate student in geological and environmental sciences published this week in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences might become a path to a hydrogen economy.
The “newly” discovered material is a high-pressure form [...]
Apr
8
A New Way to Split Hydrogen From Water
April 8, 2009 | 4 Comments
One great goal for many is the sunlight driven design of efficient systems for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. A new innovation developed by Prof. David Milstein and colleagues of the Weizmann Institute’s Organic Chemistry Department, describes the steps in new process that rises to the challenge.
The Institute’s team is demonstrating a new understanding [...]
