Start-up says it can make hydrogen with sunlight and water
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Nanoptek has an electrode that extracts electrons from sunlight, and then extracts them to break water molecules. Will it work?
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Long before President Bush ever put 'hydrogen' and 'economy' together in a sentence, a group of students at the University of California, Los Angeles, were revving the engine on their hydrogen-powered Gremlin. By Amit Asaravala.
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Shining a light on the solar industry.
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Engineers designed the tank like a giant thermos, so it keeps the hydrogen cold without resorting to any cooling systems. From Crave, CNET's gadget blog.
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Scientists have struggled for years to make electricity from the sunâs light, at a cost competitive with other power sources. Now they are close, using the sunâs heat instead.
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An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.
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With oil near $50 a barrel, alternatives to gasoline are attracting more attention - including fuel cells, devices that convert hydrogen into electric current with no waste products except heat and pure water.
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Vehicles that electrolyze water onboard to produce hydrogen fuel could provide an easier alternative to fuel-cell vehicles and building out a hydrogen infrastructure. In Autopia.
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Upstart NRG Dock shows off a general-purpose solar panel and battery to power electronics.
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Sandia National Laboratories' "Sunshine to Petrol" project uses solar energy to recycle carbon dioxide and recover the building blocks of hydrocarbons, which can then be used to synthesize fuels like methanol and gasoline.
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It's time for a research resurgence into using small water plants to produce oil and ethanol. In Autopia.
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A redesigned fuel tank for NASA's first post-Columbia launch emerged from a darkened barge into the morning sunlight Thursday, inspiring dozens of space shuttle workers who gathered to watch.
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Researchers say they have found a way to produce hydrogen with far less energy than other methods, a development that would move the country closer to the goal of a "hydrogen economy."
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The 1st public filling station has been opened in Berlin, Germany. BASF comments that in the production of hydrogen on a commercial scale from natural gas or from other fossil feedstock emissions of carbon ...
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Using wind to make clean water could be a winning combination.
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Researchers are harnessing solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, which can be used to make fuels.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have used spinach to harness a plant's ability to convert sunlight into energy for the first time, creating a device that may one day power laptops, mobile phones and more.