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Quantum's Advanced Hydrogen Storage Technology Supports Challenge X Vehicles Exhibited at EVS-23

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. has announced its support of the student teams participating in Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility.

3 Dec 2007

University of Delaware Car Runs On and Sends Electricity Back to Grid

The price of oil nearly reached $100 a barrel recently, but a new University of Delaware prototype vehicle demonstrates how the cost of the black stuff could become a concern of the past.

3 Dec 2007

Crop and Pasture Response to Climate Change

Global agriculture, already predicted to be stressed by climate change in coming decades, could go into steep, unanticipated declines in some regions due to complications that scientists have so far inadequately considered, say three new scientific reports.

3 Dec 2007

New Biofuel Production Incentive Program in Canada

More Canadians will soon be putting cleaner biofuels in their vehicles such as ethanol and biodiesel.

3 Dec 2007

Climate Change Will Drive Trees Northward - Ranges May Decrease Sharply

The most extensive and detailed study to date of 130 North American tree species concludes that expected climate change this century could shift their ranges northward by hundreds of kilometers and shrink the ranges by more than half.

3 Dec 2007

New Data Analysis Conclusive About Release Of CO2 From Peatland When Natural Swamp Forest Is Converted To Oil Palm Plantation

A new data analysis undertaken by Dr. Susan Page of the University of Leicester Department of Geography and colleagues involved in the EU-funded CARBOPEAT and RESTORPEAT projects shows conclusively that large amounts of carbon dioxide are released from peatland in Southeast Asia when it is converted from natural swamp forest to plantations of oil palm or pulpwood trees.

3 Dec 2007

Design and Operation of Power Systems with Large Amounts of Wind Power

The production of wind power varies and is harder to forecast than the fluctuations in electricity demand. Adding large quantities of wind power to power systems is therefore challenging.

3 Dec 2007

iWorx Introduces Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Analyzer

iWorx, a developer of advanced physiology teaching and life science research tools, has introduced the GA-200 Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Gas Analyzer.

3 Dec 2007

Understanding How and Why Fuel Cells Fail Key to Reducing Cost and Improving Durability

Researchers in the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s (GTRI) Center for Innovative Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies believe that understanding how and why fuel cells fail is the key to both reducing cost and improving durability.

28 Nov 2007

U.S. Program Aims to Develop Technology to Economically and Sustainably Produce Ethanol from Biomass

The United States has embarked on an ambitious program to develop technology and infrastructure to economically and sustainably produce ethanol from biomass.

28 Nov 2007

New Research Center Focused on Cutting Edge Hydrogen Fuel Cell Science

The University of Massachusetts Amherst will create a new research center focused on the cutting edge of hydrogen fuel cell science, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced, awarding a three-year, $1.5 million grant to the Fueling the Future Chemical Bonding Center.

28 Nov 2007

China Clean Energy Expands Specialty Chemicals Product Offering with Launch of High Performance Hot Melt Adhesives

China Clean Energy Inc., a leading producer of biodiesel fuel and environmentally-friendly specialty chemical products made from renewable resources in The People's Republic of China ("PRC"), today announced that it has successfully upgraded its specialty chemicals plant to produce High Performance or Multi-Purpose Hot Melt Adhesives from its patented proprietary processes.

28 Nov 2007

Experimental Device Uses Sunlight to Convert Glucose into Hydrogen to Power A Cell

A new type of fuel cell powered with glucose derived from biomass is described in the latest issue of the Inderscience Publication International Journal of Global Energy Issues.

28 Nov 2007

A Mathematical Model for Forecasting Air Quality Across Europe

Led by Dr. Roberto San José, the Environmental Software and Modelling Group (GMSMA) at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’s School of Computing, has developed an advanced modelling system to forecast air quality, called OPANA. OPANA is now operating across a number of European cities.

28 Nov 2007

France is World's 4th Top Market for Biofuel Investment

France is the world’s 4th most attractive market for investment in biofuels, according to Ernst & Young’s Biofuels Country Attractiveness Indices 2007. France also takes top ranks for competitiveness in individual markets, placing the country 2nd for biodiesel and 4th for ethanol.

28 Nov 2007