Showing posts with label fuel cell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fuel cell. Show all posts
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Could the Hydrogen Economy Run on Ethanol?

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Plans for a fuel cell car running on ethanol look like a clever way to circumvent the obstacles faced by other fuel cell vehicles. Howeve...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

What Will Fuel Today's Advanced Vehicles?

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Last month I attended the annual "policy day" at the Washington Auto Show , which typically emphasizes green cars and related tech...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Threats and Opportunities of Distributed Power Generation

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Rooftop solar panels aren't the only distributed generation technology that could challenge existing utility business models as it grow...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Fuel Cell Cars and the Shale Revolution

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Although fuel cell cars have perpetually seemed to be the technology of tomorrow, carmakers’ persistence with them could still pay off, as...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Fuel Cell Déjà Vu

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A small start-up company just launched an amazing new product to much fanfare: a novel fuel cell device capable of running on natural gas an...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Fuel Cell Trains

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I often use my gym time to catch up on interesting podcasts, and NPR's excellent Science Friday series is one of my favorite sources. I...
Monday, August 31, 2009

150 Years of Oil

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As I noted in my first posting of the month, August 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the first commercial oil well. Edwin Drake's wel...
Monday, May 18, 2009

How Many Miracles?

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Over the weekend I was catching up on articles, and one from Technology Review last week caught my attention. It was a brief interview with ...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Perception vs. Reality

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Last week I had a very interesting meeting with Mr. Norman Johnson, Director of External Affairs for the North American division of Robert B...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Clean Green Wheels

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Yesterday I attended the awards ceremony honoring the winners of the Challenge X competition sponsored by the Department of Energy and GM, i...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

When Electrons Beat Molecules

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Yesterday I nearly missed a very significant piece of news--a signpost of the future, if you will--because it was buried in the B section of...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

The Future of Gas

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Not many years ago, natural gas was widely regarded as the fuel of the future. Its use was growing at a much faster rate than for oil, and i...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Fuel Cell Test Drive - Part II

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In a posting at the start of this year, I described the competition among various advanced technology vehicle options as a race that still h...
Monday, November 05, 2007

Fuel Cell Test Drive - Part I

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Last Friday, along with several members of the press and a few other bloggers , I had an opportunity to drive GM's latest hydrogen vehi...