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Solar Power Stocks Crash After Demand Warning Across Europe

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Germany And France Finally Compromise On Nuclear

Germany And France Finally Compromise On Nuclear

The two EU behemoths finally…

Alternative Energy / Fuel Cells

A Home-Battery System that Could Rival Tesla

Feb 24, 2016 at 10:48 | Michael McDonald

There is a small start-up company in California that appears to be setting the stage to challenge the world’s biggest companies in an emerging area…

How Close To A Viable Energy Storage Solution Are We?

Feb 03, 2016 at 16:03 | Leonard Hyman & William Tilles

Both the energy and transportation industries are on the brink of a revolution — if someone develops the right electricity storage device. For the automobile industry, the better the battery,…

Breakthrough In Hydrogen Cracking Could Create Clean Fuel

Dec 18, 2015 at 16:58 | Michael McDonald

Is this the first serious crack in high cost of hydrogen? Hydrogen fuel cells have been one of the most exciting areas of green energy for…

Korea Leading The Way With Ambitious Fuel Cell Project

Nov 13, 2015 at 15:11 | Gaurav Agnihotri

With the aim of reducing rising greenhouse gases and limiting the use of conventional fossil fuels, the world is slowly but steadily taking note of alternative…

Can Fuel Cells Help Clean Up China’s Air?

Nov 10, 2015 at 15:57 | Gaurav Agnihotri

Rising air pollution is easily one of the biggest challenges that China is facing today. A U.S. report published this year stated that around 4,000 people…

Can Tesla Deliver A Self-Driving Electric Car Before 2020?

Oct 09, 2015 at 17:33 | Gaurav Agnihotri

Elon Musk has been a media darling for quite some time and his stature as a real life ‘Iron Man’ is growing with each passing day. With PayPal, Tesla Motors,…

Is Apple Banking On Fuel Cell Technology?

Sep 08, 2015 at 15:22 | Michael McDonald

Apple is notoriously known for venturing into new technologies, shrouded in secrecy. New reports say that the California-based company could be making moves into using…

Korea Leaves West Behind In Fuel Cell Race

May 31, 2015 at 17:57 | Andrew Topf

When George W. Bush proclaimed in 2003 that “the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen and pollution-free,” the former U.S. President was suggesting…

Can Tesla’s Battery System Actually Live Up To The Hype?

May 12, 2015 at 12:36 | Michael McDonald

Elon Musk certainly has a streak of PT Barnum in him.On May 6 the widely known and frequently controversial boss of Tesla Motors introduced the company’s latest product…

We Are On The Verge Of An Electric Car Battery Breakthrough

Sep 01, 2014 at 14:07 | Climate Progress

Electric vehicles are cool. They’re inexpensive to operate, can make our air cleaner, and help reduce the amount of climate change-causing gases released into the atmosphere. But right…

PLUG: Harness The Power Of A Steady Short Squeeze

Apr 21, 2014 at 11:10 | Editorial Dept

Five weeks ago, fuel cell stocks, and Plug Power (PLUG) in particular were all the rage. At the end of February, Plug announced a huge contract with Wal-Mart for…

Did Nature’s Fuel Cells Spark Life on Earth

Mar 13, 2014 at 16:51 | Futurity

Researchers have developed a new way to simulate the energetic processes that may have led to the emergence of cell metabolism on Earth—a crucial biological function for all living organisms.

A New Affordable Fuel Cell Design

Feb 06, 2014 at 16:39 | Brian Westenhaus

The United Kingdom’s Birmingham City University in a partnership with UK motorsport entrepreneur and manufacturer Spencer Ashley and the DYPDC center for automotive research in Pune is set to

The Cube – New Breakthrough Set to Alter the Energy Landscape Forever

Aug 15, 2013 at 17:18 | Charles Kennedy

Redox Power Systems has signed a partnership deal with researchers at the University of Maryland in order to develop and bring to commercial market a new distributed electricity generation…

Replacing Platinum to Build Cheaper Fuel Cells

Aug 09, 2013 at 17:36 | Futurity

A new type of polymer membrane could replace expensive platinum in alkaline batteries and fuel cells.“We have tried to break this paradigm of tradeoffs in materials (by improving)…

The Grid Gets a Very Big Lithium Ion Battery

Jun 05, 2013 at 16:38 | Brian Westenhaus

A very large new Lithium-ion battery was unveiled Saturday in Oregon to help make the Northwest’s and the nation’s electric system more efficient, officials said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

A Follow up on the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Breakthrough

Apr 24, 2013 at 15:48 | Barry Stevens

As a matter of clarification, the technology under discussion generates hydrogen from water. It is not a fuel cell. For this reason, the title “Hydrogen Production Breakthrough” better reflects the…

Breakthrough Microbattery Charges 1,000 Times Faster than Competing Technology

Apr 17, 2013 at 16:52 | Brian Westenhaus

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UI) have announced their new Microbatteries that out-power even the best supercapacitors and could drive new applications in radio communications and…

How Long Should a Lithium Ion Battery Survive in an EV?

Apr 11, 2013 at 16:34 | Brian Westenhaus

Mikael G. Cugnet, Ph.D. spoke on the question that worries millions of owners and potential owners of electric and hybrid vehicles (EVs) using lithium-ion batteries: How long before the…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Breakthrough?

Apr 08, 2013 at 17:30 | Barry Stevens

Monday, April 9, 2013, I will be attending a private demonstration of a hydrogen fuel cell using catalytic carbon for producing hydrogen-for-fuel. This is the world’s first scalable Hydrogen-On-Demand process…

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