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A group of US researchers say they’ve developed a “one-pot” process for generating hydrogen fuel from cellulosic plant waste, water and a cocktail of enzymes. The “recipe” produces hydrogen gas that’s pure enough to power a fuel cell, says the team of scientists from Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge
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The UK’s first hydrogen ‘mini-grid’, based in Yorkshire, took delivery this week of the wind turbine that will be used to generate the electricity needed to produce hydrogen. The second hand wind turbine was transported from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham to its new home at the Environmental Energy Technology
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The University of Manchester has joined the race to make cheap and sustainable hydrogen energy. The Manchester-led ‘H-Delivery’ collaboration between 13 UK universities has been awarded an initial grant of £5m over four years from the UK Research Council’s Supergen programme. The group will undertake research into: * Advanced methods
ford
It will be at least two decades before hydrogen-powered cars hit the mainstream because of the cost and difficulty of fuelling them. That’s according to Ford’s leading engineer on hydrogen cars in this Bloomberg interview. In his rather gloomy assessment of the state of the market for hydrogen-powered
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A West Midlands housing association and the University of Birmingham have launched a domestic house powered by a hydrogen fuel cell system. The fuel cell unit powers the house’s electricity, water and central heating and is housed in a shed in the back garden of one of Black Country
glamorgan
A £2.2m hydrogen research and demonstration centre opens at the University of Glamorgan this week to investigate the viability and safety of producing hydrogen fuel from indigenous renewable sources in Wales. Based at Baglan Energy Park near Swansea, the centre will also integrate research into other renewable technologies, including
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There’s a lot of research going on across the UK’s universities around hydrogen as an alternative fuel for cars and other vehicles. Last week the University of Sunderland unveiled a Nissan car converted to run on hydrogen and the University of Birmingham has just bought a fleet of
Green Gases
A fleet of five hydrogen powered cars have been unveiled at the University of Birmingham. Designed and built by Microcab, the cars are being used in a study by the university’s School of Chemical Engineering to find out more about the viability of hydrogen in transport. Researchers will learn
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Scientists – we’ll not call them boffins as it annoys some readers – at the University of Sunderland have converted a Nissan Almera to run off hydrogen. The project, called HyPower, has been carried out by the university’s Institute of Automotive and Manufacturing Advanced Practice (Amap) with regional partners to
european union
One of the big issues hampering adoption of alternative fuel cars is the all important question of where to fill up – whether that be re-charging an electric battery, or topping up with hydrogen. Recognising that, European Parliament MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a law proposing the establishment of
biofuels
It seems that the US Department of Energy (DoE) can’t get enough of giving away cash to clean tech projects. Stories about the largesse of the DoE seem to crop up with all the regularity of editorials about Princess Diana/binge drinking/house price crashes in the Daily Mail,
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