GOLDEN, CO/GAITHERSBURG, MD – Working independently of each other, scientists at two Federal research institutions have come up with theoretical, similar, pathways that may lead to novel materials for onboard hydrogen storage with capacities about 50% higher than what the Energy Department would like to achieve five years from now.
LISBON/SEOUL - Long the dream of renewable energy supporters and environmentalists, commercial wave and tidal power projects are getting underway in Portugal and Korea.
Illuminated Hybrid Platinum/Semiconductor Electrode Delivers More Output in DMFC NOTRE DAME, IN - By grafting a semiconductor photocatalyst onto a carbon fiber paper electrode with a platinum-based catalyst, a team of scientists from the University of Notre Dame here and Indiana University Northwest in Gary has come up with a new hybrid electrode for a direct methanol fuel cell that, with light shining on it, produces considerably more power than a straight platinum-catalyzed electrode.
Intelligent Energy to Merge with U.S. Firm, Launches FC Bike in California LOS ANGELES - In what at first blush seems like an unlikely arrangement, a California maker of nautical apparel that has fallen on hard times, Dickie Walker Marine, Inc., Oceanside, CA is acquiring a British fuel cell technology developer, Intelligent Energy, designer of the ENV, a funkily futuristic fuel cell bike.
UK Government Proposes £40 Million Carbon Abatement, H2 R&D Package LONDON - Billed as a runup to the early-July G8 Summit in Scotland where global warming issues are scheduled to be center stage, the British government last month announced a £40 million (about $73 million) funding package spread over several years for carbon abatement and hydrogen technologies.
