Topic: Fuel Cells

Adobe Plugs in the Biggest Bloom Box Yet

The much-hyped startup behind the fuel cell device known as the Bloom Box has kept quiet since its February launch. Now, in the wake of a $10 million deal, it's powering a third of Adobe's HQ. Will a consumer version be next? READ»

Vernon Roan on Hydrogen as Fuel for Future Cars

Hydrogen should be a fuel for the car of the future, according to a report by the U.S. National Research Council or NRC. We spoke with Vernon Roan, who chairs the committee for the NRC on hydrogen cars and fuel.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»

Chickens Can Help Save the Planet Too

A massive chicken farm in California gets a power boost from chicken poop--and helps reduce global warming gases in the process.READ»

Greening Up the World's Cell Phone Towers

Within five years, something like 5% of the world's cell phone tower base stations will be powered by one form or another of green energy. If that doesn't sound like much, the figure's just 0.11% today. And with cell phone use ...READ»

Dump the Pump Day: Gulf Oil Disaster Makes Ditching Your Car an Even Better Idea

The Gulf oil leak is terrible and depressing, but is there a chance it can have eco-benefits? For example, the American Public Transport Association's regular "Dump the Pump" campaign has never seemed so attractive an idea. READ»

Biodesign Institute Harnesses Wastewater-Munching Microbes to Make Hydrogen

Is wastewater our greatest underutilized resource? We've recently seen a startup that turns sludge into high-quality fertilizer as well as a university that produces steam, water, acetic acid, and fertilizer from wastewater. Arizona ...READ»

Afghanistan's Potential Billions in Lithium: Why It's Important

This weekend rare and fabulous news came from Afghanistan that trillion-dollar mineral deposits have been discovered. Chief among the riches is lithium, an element central to the most popular type of rechargable batteries used today. ...READ»

8 Incredible Health Innovations That Transform Lives

New technologies are helping close the gaps for those with physical disabilities. Each day, the physical capabilities that technology gives us is incredible, and we're not just talking about texting friends at lightening pace, or the ability to see our energy consumption in real time.READ»

Hydra's Solar-Hydrogen Power Makes Clean Water From Dirty at 20,000 Gallons a Day

For the one in every eight souls around the world lacking access to pure drinking water, how about this: A solar-powered water purification system that spits out pure water, hydrogen and, just for kicks, electricity too. Could it get ...READ»

Body Fluid-Powered Fuel Cell Could Turn Pacemaker Patients Into Steve Austin

Fuel cell technology is hyped as a possible future power system for electric vehicles, but it's actually got a plethora of uses: The latest, and perhaps greatest, is a glucose cell for medical devices that could get its "fuel" from your body.

GM Bringing a Hydrogen Infrastructure to Hawaii

Is it just us, or has interest in hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles intensified lately? We've seen SunHydro's infrastructure plan, Toyota's $50,000 hydrogen sedan, and now GM's plan to bring a hydrogen infrastructure pilot to ...READ»

Toyota: $50K Hydrogen Sedan Will Be Ready by 2015

Electric vehicles get the lion's share of the attention in the world of futuristic automotive technology, and for good reason--automakers are quickly sending reasonably priced EVs down the pipeline, and startups like Coulomb and ...READ»

Oakland: Zero-Emission Public Transit [Fast Cities 2010]

Buses and trains may trump cars on the carbon front, but for true sustainability, why not power public transit with alternative fuels? AC Transit has three hybrid-electric, hydrogen fuel-cell buses up and running in Oakland and ...READ»

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Can SunHydro's Network of Hydrogen Fueling Stations Succeed?

Fuel cell technology is the perpetual underdog to electric vehicle tech--almost every major automaker has an EV planned for the next few years, but fuel cell vehicles are largely being kept on the back burner just in case public ...READ»

Jeff Koons Previews His BMW Design

The new car will be the 17th in BMW's fabled "Art Car" series.READ»

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DARPA's Smart Blimp: Mysterious, Hovering Future of Battlefield Surveillance

In the future DARPA's ISIS blimp may be hovering above the horizon near to conflict zones, feeding real time radar data to troops and smart weapons from on high. True to its name, it's also a little more magical than the Goodyear ...READ»

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AIC Kia Of Manassas 2009 Kia Borrego V8 4WD The theory is that despite the drastic rise in fuel costs, there are still plenty of upper-middle-class suburbanites who want a body-on-frame SUV to shuttle the family, haul supplies ...READ»

Fuel-Cell Powered BMW Bike Concept Revealed

It's fuel cell madness! First Bloom Energy revealed its much-hyped fuel cell-powered Bloom Energy Server earlier this week, and now a group of design students from the ISD of Valenciennes in France have unveiled a slick concept BMW ...READ»

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»

How Does the Bloom Box Energy Server Work?

Now that the dust has started to settle on the unveiling of the Bloom Energy Server, we thought it might be useful to take a more detailed look at some of the technology behind the fuel cell-powered electricity generator. The Bloom ...READ»

Is the Bloom Box Energy Server the Future of Plug and Play Electricity?

After 8 years in stealth mode, Bloom Energy has finally revealed all about its Bloom Box fuel cell device (AKA the Bloom Energy Server).READ»

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»

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»