Fuel Cell Study Provides Answers for OPPD, Clean Power for Zoo
It is only natural that organizations dedicated to protecting the world's wildlife should take an interest in technology that protects the environment, too. With the help of Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), the Henry Doorly Zoo pioneered the use of a hydrogen fuel cell generator to power zoo facilities.
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Are Fuel Cells the Future of Heating?
Two projects in London, SOM’s Arrowhead development on the Isle of Dogs for Ballymore, and three buildings for Aldgate Place in Whitechapel, by Wilkinson Eyre for Tishman Speyer, are set to derive up to 10% of their energy needs from fuel cells.
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A Cool Fuel Cell
A novel low-temperature electrolyte could make solid-oxide fuel cells more practical.
A new electrolyte for solid-oxide fuel cells, made by researchers in Spain, operates at temperatures hundreds of degrees lower than those of conventional electrolytes, which could help make such fuel cells more practical.
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Solar Energy to Fuel Cell, Welcome to Your New Lifestyle!
Fascinating stuff on the energy front with a MIT researchers David Nocera and Henry Dreyfus finding a new catalytic system for changing water into its constituent components: oxygen and hydrogen gas. This is, actually, excellent news, but trying to go beyond that to linking this with solar cells and other energy sources. This, by their diagram, is an electricity-based system, not one depending on photons to do the work, as is seen in their diagram here…
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Much Cheaper Fuel Cells on the Way with New Prototype
Australian researchers have developed a new fuel cell prototype that could lead to much cheaper, more efficient fuel cell vehicles in the near future. Scientists at Monash University in Melbourne created a new cathode that could bypass the need for expensive platinum nanoparticles, which adds about $3500 to $4000 to the sticker price of current fuel cells.
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