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This Fueling Station Fills Vehicles With Clean Hydrogen From Dirty Water

There aren't very many hydrogen cars on the road these days, but there might be soon. And when there are, it will be possible to take the dirty water from your toilet and turn it into fuel.READ»

ClearEdge Wants To Put A Refrigerator-Sized Fuel Cell In Your House

If you have $60,000 to spare and like to show off to your neighbors, ClearEdge Power may have the product for you: a giant fuel cell that can power up your house or business, and perhaps take you entirely off the grid.READ»

Now You Can Buy Bloom Energy's Mystical Fuel Cell Electricity Without Any Gizmos

Back in February 2010, Bloom Energy hit the news in a big way with its mysterious fuel-cell "Boxes" tech powering tech giants like Amazon. Now it's trying a new thing with "Electrons," selling its clean energy to customers without them needing to buy hardware.READ»

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Intel, Lilliputian Bring Handheld Fuel Cell Chargers Closer to Market

Imagine a Jetsons-style future where gadget lovers tote around ultra-light fuel cells that take up as much space as a deck of cards. Lilliputian Systems just brought that dream a little closer to reality. READ»

Personal Energy Systems: Get Yours in 2012

A newly discovered catalyst can jump-start the separation of oxygen from water to power fuel cells for the home, a professor from MIT told peers at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. Personal energy systems ...READ»

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Could the Wondrous Bloom Box Power Your Alt-Fuel Car and Smartphone Too?

Bloom Box has hit the media in a huge way, accompanied with all sorts of fanfare and skepticism. The company's CEO has now appeared to explain some of its scientific secrets, and it may be even cleverer than you've thought. By now ...READ»

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eBay Opens Up About Installing Bloom Boxes and Their Room for Improvement

eBay spoke to Fast Company about their ultra-secret trial of Bloom Energy's power cells: they're five times more efficient than solar cells and will soon run on biogas, eliminating CO2 emissions. READ»

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Mercedes Reveals Teaser Preview of Its 2011 Hybrids

The gorgeous F800 is a preview of the styling and technology that will grace the 2011 CLS.READ»

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Bloom Energy Unveils Its Ultra-Secretive Bloom Box Fuel Cell

If you keep track of green technology companies, you may have heard rumblings about Bloom Energy, a secretive company that has raised nearly $400 million from investors like Kleiner Perkins for its supposedly game-changing fuel cell device. Now the eight year old company is finally emerging from the shadows with the Bloom Box. READ»

Why Is the Auto Industry Spending Billions on Hydrogen-Powered Wishful Thinking?

Everyday, it seems, we hear about another electric vehicle start-up with plans to revolutionize the auto industry. And with companies like Coulomb Technologies and Better Place slowly expanding their networks of EV charging and ...READ»

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Toyota's Big Electric Car Blunder

Bill Reinert hates the plug-in electric car. He hates ethanol too. And what Bill Reinert hates matters to every car-buying American: he's Toyota's national sales manager and in-house energy sage, and he knows his stuff. But is he too ...READ»

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Can NYK Be a "Green" Shipping Company and Still Build Coal-Carrying Super-Tankers?

Tokyo-based shipping company NYK Line has done a lot to boost its green credentials: The company docked its first solar-powered cargo ship in Los Angeles this month, recently released a concept design for a ship juiced up with fuel ...READ»

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First Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered Plane Takes to the Skies

The world's first plane powered solely by hydrogen fuel cells took off on its maiden flight Tuesday from Hamburg Airport in Germany. The Antares DLR-H2's 10-minute flight showed off the plane's 105-mph-speed capabilities and quiet ...READ»

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Toasted Chicken Feathers Make Better Hydrogen Tanks for Fuel-Cells

Hydrogen fuel cell technology is full of promise, but it's being held back by the problem of storing the dangerous gas safely and efficiently. Some U.S. scientists have been tackling this, and their solution is as ingenious as it ...READ»

Bucher CityCat: A Hydrogen-Powered Municipal Vehicle

Bucher CityCat H2, the world's first municipal utility vehicle powered by fuel cells, made its debut last week in Basel, Switzerland. The street-cleaning CityCat will undergo an 18-month trial to see how well it can reduce air ...READ»

The New Great Race - - Tesla versus Clarity

Listening to battery enthusiasts wax poetic about the Tesla recently--and seeing a few of them appearing on the streets of west Los Angeles--I began thinking about the old Tony Curtis film "The Great Race." The roads and Holiday Inns have improved dramatically since the period depicted in the movie, but the idea of testing the claims of exciting new technology at the dawn of a new transportation age is very much the same.READ»

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Now I Know How Al Gore Feels

I’ve been an environmental advocate for the same couple of decades, always suspecting that my friends raised an eyebrow or two over my predictions and admonitions about sustainability (my family, however, was not subtle about raising their eyebrows). I worked for the day when thinking “green” would be a normal part of everyday life. Well, just as Al Gore’s day(s) arrived in 2007, my days arrived this week.READ»

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Hydrogen Fuel Gets a Boost with Stainless Steel Technology

The science of producing hydrogen to power fuel-cells in microbial electrolysis processes has just received a boost with some research at Pennsylvania State University that uses stainless steel components instead of the more ...READ»

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The Horseless Carriage Will Never Catch On

Regardless of which technology any of us may prefer, I’m proud to be the world’s first automotive customer to trade in a hydrogen fuel cell car for a newer one! After nearly five years driving several generations of the Honda FCX, I traded in mine for a new Honda Clarity. I also get bragging rights for being the first retail customer to buy hydrogen at a gas station in 2004.READ»

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World's Smallest Fuel Cell Built, 3mm Across

Fuel cells are hot news at the moment, with advances being made every day. And now a US team has built the world's smallest fully-functioning hydrogen fuel cell that measures just 3mm on a side. While conventional battery tech is ...READ»