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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Although electric vehicles show higher non-climate damages than many other technologies, they will not be significantly cleaner than cars powered by fossil fuels until they rely less on electricity produced from coal-fired power plants, according to new research from the National Research Council, reports Reuters. Despite the finding, Japanese automaker Honda is considering a move [...]
Toshiba Releases Dynario DMFC Fuel Cell Charger
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009By Cristi on October 23rd, 2009 A few days ago we discussed about Toshiba’s recently unveiled direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC). Now they finally announced the release of the much anticipated direct methane fuel-cell changer which we have been expecting for a while.The market release of the Dynario fuel-cell for portable electronic devices, will be on [...]
Motorola's Zeppelin spotted, found to contain Android rather than hydrogen
Monday, October 26th, 2009Last week’s blurry little roadmap from Motorola gave us our first glimpse of the codename Zeppelin, and now just a few days later the back half of the thing has floated its way into the hands of someone at DIGI.QQ.com . The Android-powered handset is said to sport a five megapixel camera with flash, WiFi, [...]
Suzuki SX4-FCV unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show
Monday, October 26th, 2009Suzuki seeks to impress at the Tokyo Motor Show with its display of a hydrogen fuel-cell powered version of its SX4. General Motors has supplied the 80kW hydrogen fuel cell used by the SX4-FCV. It is mated to a Suzuki-designed hydrogen storage tank that compresses the gas at 10,000psi.Instead of a battery pack, the SX4-FCV [...]
Hydrogen Created by Artificial Photosynthesis Process
Monday, October 26th, 2009By Cristi on October 20th, 2009 A team of scientists from the University of Rochester has a tough mission creating a hydrogen fuel cell that not only burns cleanly but the fuel itself has to be created from clean sources. They have developed a process that uses artificial photosynthesis and nanotubes to finalize this project.A similar process has already been developed some [...]
