May

14

Cheaper Hydrogen Gas With a New Electro Catalyst

May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new lower cost electro catalyst that addresses the cost problems by generating hydrogen gas from water cleanly and with much more affordable materials. The novel form of catalytic nickel-molybdenum-nitride is described in a paper published online May 8, 2012 in the [...]

Mar

8

A Solar Powered Nanostructure Generates Hydrogen

March 8, 2012 | 1 Comment

Using silicon and zinc oxide a University of California San Diego team has built a forest of nanowires that split hydrogen free from water. Deli Wang, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering quoted in the University press release said, “This is a clean [...]

Feb

13

Building a Better Hydrogen Fuel Catalyst

February 13, 2012 | 4 Comments

In a stunning statement, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), chemists using an engineered catalyst in single molecule form that when dropped into acidic water and even seawater, the catalyst molecules generated hydrogen for several days without letup. Quote, “When lots of these single-molecule catalysts were dumped into acidic water and even seawater, they generated hydrogen [...]

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 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

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