Jan
3
A Look At 2012s Big Hopes – Fuel Cells
January 3, 2012 | 1 Comment
The New Year may well be the breakthrough year for fuel cells. The astonishing innovation and marketing locomotive of Apple Computers with the i- you name it – product list leading us into new uses for electronic devices, has let slip they will preview a fuel cell idea at this month’s Consumer Electronics Show. Apple [...]
Dec
23
A Partial Fix For the Fuel Cell Problem
December 23, 2011 | 2 Comments
Most folks don’t realize the depth of the economic problem that fuels cells pose for mass adoption. Often there are price quotes running in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. That’s because the catalysts of choice are the noble metals platinum or palladium. These are very rare metals, more so than gold and [...]
Aug
18
Iron as a Catalyst Is Improved Again
August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Iron as a catalyst is making news, especially in Europe where the element is suspected to have a role in the catalyst for the Rossi E-Cat. That might be the case as scientists at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique Varennes, Québec, Canada (INRS) have published a paper in Nature Communications showing an iron [...]
Jun
16
A Very Different Fuel and Fuel Cell
June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Out of Poland comes an alternative fuel and fuel cell. The fuel chosen is formic acid and the fuel cell runs at room temperature. A room temperature operation seizes attention; formic acid makes for a set of questions. Dr. Andrzej Borodziński at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw [...]
Jun
1
Just recently and just announced USC and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, which manages the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) for NASA has awarded a license to SFC Energy, Inc., the U.S. affiliate of SFC Energy AG a non-exclusive license for the JPL’s Direct Methanol Fuel Cell that will facilitate the expansion of the [...]
Apr
27
A Low Cost Fuel Cell Catalyst Design
April 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
Maybe this is it, or so close that fuel cells might get some market traction at consumer prices. In a paper published Friday April 22, 2011 in Science, Los Alamos researchers describe the use of a platinum-free catalyst in the cathode of a hydrogen fuel cell. Eliminating platinum the precious metal more expensive than gold, [...]
Apr
5
A New Fuel Cell Design Makes the Cover
April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The April issue of American Chemical Society’s Nano features the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science new fuel cell catalyst system using nanowires made of a novel material that boosts long-term performance by 2.4 times compared to today’s technology. That’s a big boost dearly needed for fuel cells. One reason (other than cost) fuel [...]
Mar
30
A Nano Crystal Idea for Fuel Cells
March 30, 2011 | 2 Comments
Researchers at TU Delft have identified a new huge potential of nanocrystals in fuel cells. The Delft researchers are the first to document the idea accurately with their second article on the subject. The latest paper was published in the scientific journal, Advanced Functional Materials. The addition of the extremely small nanocrystals to a solid [...]
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