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 | 4 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 | 2 Comments
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 [...]
May
19
A New Way to Get Hydrogen From Water
May 19, 2011 | 1 Comment
Monash University of Australia in the lead role with researchers at UC Davis in the USA and using the facilities at the Australian Synchrotron has published a paper the journal Nature Chemistry Sunday May 15, 2011 describing very simple mineral, commonly seen as a black stain on rocks that oxidizes the oxygen out of water. [...]
May
11
Solar Energy Directly to Hydrogen Production
May 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
Getting solar energy into a stored form is a major and elusive goal. One idea that has intrigued for decades is using solar energy to split water for the hydrogen product. Some wee progress has been made. May 10, 2011 saw a Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) team discovering that it is possible [...]
Apr
19
A New Way to Produce Hydrogen
April 19, 2011 | 4 Comments
A research team at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland has announced they have come upon a new catalyst for electrolysis to split hydrogen out of water. In a serendipitous moment the team led by Xile Hu made this discovery during an electrochemical experiment. Hu said, “It’s a perfect illustration of the famous [...]
Feb
7
A New Solar Bio Photo Conversion System Makes Hydrogen
February 7, 2011 | 3 Comments
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a biohybrid photo conversion system – based on the interaction of photosynthetic plant proteins with synthetic polymers – that can convert visible light into hydrogen fuel. This is another part of the first step to making solar panels for directly producing fuel. The research team’s work seeks to [...]
Sep
29
Make Hydrogen While You Drive
September 29, 2010 | 6 Comments
Some press releases go pretty far. One hopes the scientists proofread the text before it gets out. The University of Wisconsin says in its release about a low cost, low temperature hydrogen catalyst for purification, “Engineering researchers from Tufts University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard University have demonstrated the low-temperature efficacy of an atomically [...]
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