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New Power-to-Gas Technology Could Dramatically Increase Use of Intermittent Renewable Energy

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced that new research on power-to-gas technology shows the technique holds the ability to dramatically increase the use of intermittent renewable energy.

31 Mar 2017

New Project Demonstrates Benefits of Using Oxygen-Based Ceramic Fuel Cell as Part of Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Today the Ascend Energy team in the Sacramento area in collaboration with fuel cell manufacturer Atrex Energy released the results of their joint project to demonstrate the benefits of using an oxygen-based ceramic fuel cell as part of a hybrid electric vehicle to save money, reduce fuel use, and eliminate air pollution.

30 Mar 2017

Rice Team Develops Oxygen-Evolution Catalyst for Solar Applications

An efficient, simple-to-manufacture oxygen-evolution catalyst has been created by Rice University scientists. This catalyst matches well with semiconductors for solar water splitting, the changing of solar energy to chemical energy in the form of oxygen and hydrogen.

24 Mar 2017

New Study Defines Best-Known Material to Capture Greenhouse Gas

Natural gas producers want to draw all the methane they can from a well while sequestering as much carbon dioxide as possible, and could use filters that optimize either carbon capture or methane flow.

24 Mar 2017

Researchers Use Solar Power to Generate Sustainable Fuel from Biomass

A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has developed a way of using solar power to generate a fuel that is both sustainable and relatively cheap to produce. It's using natural light to generate hydrogen from biomass.

14 Mar 2017

HyperSolar Produces Renewable Hydrogen Using Commercially Available Silicon Solar Cells

HyperSolar, Inc., a company developing a breakthrough technology to make renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water, has announced that it had succeeded in producing renewable hydrogen using commercially available, inexpensive silicon solar cells (provided by Midwest Optoelectronics, LLC "MWOE") protected with its proprietary coating.

22 Feb 2017

Researchers Demonstrate Laboratory-Scale Hydrogen Reforming System

An internal combustion engine is not treated as one when it is transformed into a modular reforming reactor capable of making hydrogen available to power fuel cells wherever there is a supply of natural gas.

17 Feb 2017

Research on Electrochemical Water Catalysis to Tap Energy from Renewable Energy Sources

New, greener energy solutions are needed as fossil fuel energy is fast depleting and a leading cause of pollution.

15 Feb 2017

New Technology for Developing Automobile Tires Using Renewable Resources

A research team headed by the University of Minnesota has invented a new technology that will help develop automobile tires from grasses and trees in a process capable of shifting the tire production industry toward using renewable resources available in our backyards.

9 Feb 2017

New Method to Leach Lithium and Cobalt from Recycled Batteries

Phones, tablets, electric vehicles, and several other applications are powered by rechargeable lithium ion batteries. Unfortunately, the batteries are typically only functional for two to three years, and the devices that they power can fail.

8 Feb 2017