The goals of the Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE) to reduce CO2 emissions by 50 percent, NOx emissions by 80 percent and noise cut by 50 percent by 2020 has seen a... Read more
Lately we’re hearing a lot about the green energy potential of fuel cells, particularly hydrogen fuel cells. Unfortunately, although various methods of hydrogen production are being de... Read more
Chemical engineering students at Stevens Institute of Technology are transforming the way that American soldiers power their battery-operated devices by making a small change: a really small... Read more
The development of practical microbial fuel cells took a big step forward this week. Research conducted by a team of scientists from England’s University of East Anglia was published o... Read more
As anyone who has seen Back to the Future will remember, the movie ended with Doc Brown fueling the time-traveling DeLorean’s “Mr. Fusion” reactor with household waste. Wel... Read more
It may be 24 meters (79 feet) long, 10.5 meters (34.5 feet) wide and be able to carry up to 150 passengers, but the Eco Slim seagoing catamaran produces less of a carbon footprint than vesse... Read more
Leaves – the kind that grow on trees – create energy from sunlight and water through the process of photosynthesis. For over a decade, scientists have been kicking around the idea of creatin... Read more
Hydrogen has great potential as a clean fuel source for powering our cars and airplanes, but it also poses some big hurdles – namely production, distribution infrastructure and storage. Stor... Read more
A research team in China has come with a new technology that could give new meaning to the words “energy drink.” The team is developing a tiny fuel cell that runs on ordinary soda pop, the k... Read more
A Dash of Disorder Yields a Very Efficient Photocatalyst A little disorder goes a long way, especially when it comes to harnessing the sun’s energy. Scientists from the U.S. Department... Read more
Reliable, affordable fuel cells have come not one but three steps closer to reality this week, with announcements from two research institutions regarding advances in the field. If the repor... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Scientists have reported the development of a new battery-like device that opens the possibility that people one day could “recharge” cell phones, laptops, an... Read more
Although wave power is attracting a lot of attention as a renewable energy source, it is possible to generate power from still water. All you need is an electrolyzer, which separates water i... Read more
Image by Getty Images via @daylife A new process for storing and generating hydrogen to run fuel cells in cars has been invented by chemical engineers at Purdue University. The process, give... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A new approach to tiny fuel cells implanted in rats enables the devices to generate electricity for months using sugar in the rodents’ bodies The advent of the arti... Read more
