what public companies are researching and develping fuel cell energy technology?
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These companies are all researching fuel cell technology as we speak:\n\n1. Toyota\n\n2. GM\n\n3. Hyundai-Kai\n\n4. Daimler-Chrysler\n\n5. Holden, Ltd (Australian subsidary of GM)\n\n6. Honda\n\n7. BMW
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I think you are talking about Roger Billings. http://www.roger.billings.name/\n\nIt seems that he is using hydrogen fuel cells to try to provide power to cars. Hydrogen fuel cells need hydrogen and oxygen to operate.  Billings is working on electrolyzing water to generate hydrogen and oxygen.  Electrolyzing means he applies a large voltage to the water in order to split up the hydrogen and oxygen that naturally form water (H2O).  \n\nI don't know about the involvement of the government or the military.  I think cars that run on hydrogen fuel cells today have to carry a tank of hydrogen in the car, which can be very dangerous.
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Power from fuel cells,\n\nGreenery all around\n\nInstant CO2 recycling\n\nInstant Sewage treatment.\n\nWhat else ????????????????
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keulenae is right: none of them.  Coal, oil and uranium all come in limited supplies.  As for Hydrogen fuel cells, they're not an energy SOURCE, but a means of storing it, like a battery.  However, unlike regular batteries, hydrogen fuel cells are designed to be recharged and used indefinitely.  Just keep in mind that, while you can use them forever (theoretically), the energy has to come from somewhere else, like a power plant, and they also need an external supply of hydrogen and oxygen.\n\nGood examples of renewable energy are solar and wind power, as well as lumber.  A bad example, but an example nonetheless, would be poop.  Poop is stinky, and burning it to create power is not fun.\n\nAnd the most incredible energy source in the solar system, for your information, is not the sun, but Chuck Norris.
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soon there will be small hydrogen fuel cells that will replace laptop batteries.
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Bell Labs, Watson Labs, Palo Alto Research Center and several others were very important corporately funded research organizations.  Sadly "research" has become a dirty word in corporate boardrooms, probably because any investment that does not pay itself back within 5 years is generally off the table in the minds of stockholders.\n\nSo, all the great labs are becoming much more product development oriented with the result that the corporate United States has been eating its technological seed corn for some years now.  About the only real basic research that takes place now is federally funded, but those dollars have been in decline against inflation for some time also except for a very few small sub fields.\n\nRemoving federal funding of basic research will only hasten our journey into becoming, well, not a technological backwater, but sort of like Spain;  relying on developments in other nations to keep our economy going, which pretty much means picking up the leavings after new tech has evolved one or two generations.
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A company called INI Power Systems (Cary, NC) makes a fuel cell with no membrane.  It uses two fluids that flow next to each other.  DUe to laminar flow, they don't mix significantly but still exchange ions as if there was a membrane there.
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Here is an idea.\nCompare power supplies by weight, volume and power density using various batteries.\n\nThere are many batteries on the market now, so it might be very educational for you and anyone looking at your project.\n\nConsider using the following batteries:\nLead acid battery\nLithium-ion battery\nLithium ion polymer battery\nNickel-cadmium battery\nNickel metal hydride battery\nMolten salt battery\nSilver-oxide battery\nWater-activated batteries used in radiosondes\n\nYou could compare different AA batteries of different types and costs.\n\nA good starting point for references on batteries is on Wikipedia:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batteries\n\nYou might even be able to get a small prototype fuel cell if you ask to work with a battery manufacturer, a research company, or someone like NASA.\n\nYou should start thinking of what kind of a hypothesis you could write to kick of the experiment.  Hint: Don't worry if your experiment fails and you fail to prove your hypothesis. Sometimes the best experiments are failures!\n\nHope this helps!
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yes its possible. yes a few people have already done it.\n\nit takes 24 volts DC (2 car batteries) passed across a pair of platinum electrodes within a vessel of deionized water. you must exclude all air from the vessel prior to starting the process. also there must be a divider within the vessel so that when the hydrogen and oxygen separate (one gas type bubbles up from each electrode)\n\nnow you can compress the hydrogen and use it as fuel. (it takes 5 psi to run in a standard carberated engine)\n\nOR\n\nyou can store hydrogen in beryllium as it absorbs H2 readily at high pressures and releases H2 at low pressures for use with a fuel cell and because it is trapped in a block of metal no O2 can get to it to cause it to burn in storage.\n\nnow here is the problem with using this as a wide spread fuel.\nit takes more energy to create it than it puts out. unless you want to build a big solar array to convert a little water, it just doesn't fly.\n\nnow some people are working with collecting H2 emissions from some varieties of algae. now that looks promising.
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From the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance CFDA http://www.cfda.gov here are some grants involving energy:\n\n81.036 - Inventions and Innovations http://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.SEARCH_PGM_TXT_DYN.SHOW?p_arg_names=prog_nbr_in&p_arg_values=81.036&p_arg_names=keyword_in&p_arg_values=energy&p_arg_names=_title&p_arg_values=\nOBJECTIVES:\nTo encourage the development and commercialization of energy-saving inventions by providing financial and technical assistance to projects that have a potential for significant energy savings and future commercialization markets through a competitive solicitation process. \n\n81.087 - Renewable Energy Research and Development\nhttp://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.SEARCH_PGM_TXT_DYN.SHOW?p_arg_names=prog_nbr_in&p_arg_values=81.087&p_arg_names=keyword_in&p_arg_values=energy&p_arg_names=_title&p_arg_values=\nOBJECTIVES:\nTo conduct balanced research and development efforts in the following energy technologies: solar, distributed energy and electric reliability, biomass, hydrogen, fuel cells and infrastructure, wind and hydropower, hydrogen, and geothermal. Grants will be offered to develop and transfer to the nonfederal sector various renewable energy technologies on a competitive basis.\n\n81.105 - National Industrial Competitiveness through Energy, Environment, and Economics\nhttp://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.SEARCH_PGM_TXT_DYN.SHOW?p_arg_names=prog_nbr_in&p_arg_values=81.105&p_arg_names=keyword_in&p_arg_values=energy&p_arg_names=_title&p_arg_values=\n(Program in closeout - no more assistance to be provided in the future)\n\n81.117 - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance\nhttp://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.SEARCH_PGM_TXT_DYN.SHOW?p_arg_names=prog_nbr_in&p_arg_values=81.117&p_arg_names=keyword_in&p_arg_values=energy&p_arg_names=_title&p_arg_values=\nOBJECTIVES:\nThe Department of Energy (DOE) seeks to provide financial assistance for information dissemination, outreach, training and related technical analysis/assistance which will: (1) stimulate increased energy efficiency in transportation, buildings, industry and the Federal sector and encourage increased use of renewable and alternative energy; and (2) accelerate the adoption of new technologies to increase energy efficiency and the use of renewable and alternative energy through the competitive solicitation of applications. \n\nTo apply for grants, go to Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov . They have everything you need to apply for grants. \n\nThe first step is to register with Grants.gov and their registration process for organizations can be accessed from http://www.grants.gov/ \n\n1. Get a Data Universal Number System (DUNS) Number\n2. Register with Central Contractor Registry (CCR)\n3. Authorize your Organization's Representatives\n4. Login as an E-Business Point of Contact (POC)\n\nYou will first be asked to find the grant number of the grant that you wish to apply for. You can get this from the Catalog of Domestic Assistant http://www.cfda.gov which is the federal database of all grants.\n\nIf you are applying for grants as an individual, here's their registration requirements  http://grants.gov/assets/IndividualRegCheck.pdf
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General Electric\n\nCoach
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Check out the equity research companies on http://www.interviewat.com/
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with that 200 billion dollars, if it had gone into AIDS research or cancer research, we would have found a cure, or a much better therapy.\nor even into alternative fuels research.  i seriously believe if that 200 bil had been invested into hydrogen and all that, the US won't be complaining at the pumps.
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"Daniel Dingle from the Phillippines developed a [a means for cars to run on tap water].  But he got strong armed by the International Monetary Fund who forbid him from ever manufacturing his technology for public consumption.  At least Mr. Dingle is still alive. The IMF has massive oil stock holdings and forbids ANY country that borrows money from them to ever compete with any of their holdings. \n\n"Daniel was visited by representatives from Honda and BMW.  Apparently they also feared reprisals by IMF and although confirming his technology, chose not to use it themselves.\n\n"The corrupt oil industry has rallied behind any faulty alternative energy technology that ultimately leads to more consumption of oil.  But true alternatives like these found by Dingle and Meyer are stifled."
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Well, they do, but you really need to remember to take a lot of these alternative feul source claims with a grain of salt.  Don't get me wrong, I'm always on the lookout for alternative energy sources myself but you really need to remember that in the two examples you've quoted, there is a great deal of scandal and controversy over the fact that the people who own the patents are making a fortune selling devices that take in more energy then they produce...  Which makes no sense to me.\n\nBoth of your examples imply that there is free energy available from water (or that water is used as a fuel) but water is not a fuel in either case.  It's the hydrogen that makes up two parts of the H2O that is the fuel and... remember this part, I'm going to capitalize it since it's so important... IT COSTS YOU MORE ELECTRICITY TO SPLIT THE HYDROGEN, THEN THE AMOUNT OF ELECTRICITY PRODUCED FROM THE HYDROGEN.  The only actual claims from either product I've been able to find about cost is from the cost of the water, not the cost of turning the water to HHO or "Browns Gas" as it has been called, and don't get me started on the difficulty of actually storing that gas.  Sure, the energy producing reaction turns HHO back into water, but guess what happens when you apply a match to this gas...\n\nI checked out the website for magnegas, and it presents a lot of papers (from people who have nothing to do with magnegas) listed in accredited scientific journals... but why do you suppose the paper on magnegas isn't published in any of those journals?  Hmmmm?  The most valid argument I've heard FOR magnegas in this context dealt with the fact that the makers of such are businessmen with a right to protect their product...\n\nding ding ding ding!!!!!  Hear the bells going off?  Businessmen are in the market to make money, and business is not expected or regulated in any way to have any sort of scientific integrity... Or for that matter any moral obligation towards any goal wether it be consumer satisfaction or finding a way to cut energy costs.\n\nOkay, so I'm only an amateur when it comes to science, I actually have to read what other people say when it comes to the scientific data published on these particular fuel sources, but I've studied con artists all my life and the most basic con is to offer something for nothing.\n\nSome people can give you free services legitimately, like websites.  They usually make money from outside advertisers, but when the person comes to your door offering you this "free" fuel source, you just need to pay $6500 for his generator (and don't forget, you'll be paying for the electricity to run this generator) that should be the first clue that something is wrong here.\n\nBefore I close this, let me reiterate...  I WANT a cheaper, cleaner alternative fuel source.  I use solar power and composting here at my home and I'm looking for more.  I just can't afford to be taken by those who prey upon the worlds desire for cheap fuel.\n\nHope this helps\nDuckie
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I doubt it. Even if the storage problems were overcome, there are next to no places with which one could fuel up a hydrogen car. Until the infrastructure is there, there is little reason for manufacturers to put out vehicles.
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British Petroleum. They've launched a solar energy initiative.