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Breakthroughs, Inventions, Discoveries & Pioneering Efforts in the Field of Hydrogen Energy

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1. Hydrogen Fuel cell Archives – from Alternative Energy News – Excellent, Updated News & Info
2. MIT Professor Racing to Tap Photon to Make Hydrogen – EV World, May 2006
3. Iowa Company Making Engines to Run on Hydrogen, Ammonia – Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier, May 2006
4. Crystal Sponge – A Hydrogen Breakthrough? - In what could be a breakthrough on the road to a pollution-free hydrogen economy, researchers say they have developed a “crystal sponge” material that can store nearly three times more hydrogen than any other known substance. Obstacles to mass market vehicles that some day run on hydrogen include storage capacity. Chemists at UCLA and the University of Michigan claim their material is the first to achieve the kind of storage capacities required to make Hydrogen Fuel practical. They are publishing their findings in late March in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Read more from this MSNBC article
5. Scientists cite breakthrough in producing pure hydrogen - The heart of the plan is an improvement on the most efficient way to extract hydrogen, which is to run electric current through water, splitting molecules into hydrogen and oxygen, called electrolysis. The new method involves running electricity through water that has a high temperature. As the water molecule breaks up, a ceramic sieve separates the oxygen from the hydrogen. – Energy Bulletin, Nov 2004
6. New Process Could Help Make Hydrogen Fuel Affordable - Scientists in Australia say they have have made a breakthrough in the efficiency of using sunlight to generate hydrogen from water. It may be a step toward an affordable source of clean energy - Aug 2004 by National Geographic News
7. Scientists Make Fuel Cell Breakthrough - A team of Korean scientists has developed a new method of storing hydrogen as a solid, easing potential complications associated with the commercialisation of fuel cell technology – Platinum Today, Aug 2006
8. Sweet Success for Pioneering Hydrogen Energy Project - Bacteria that can munch through confectionery could be a valuable source of non-polluting energy in the years ahead, new research has shown. In a feasibility study funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, bioscientists at the University of Birmingham have demonstrated that these bacteria give off hydrogen gas as they consume high-sugar waste produced by the confectionery industry. Read more from this May 2006 report from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, UK
9. Hydrogen & Fuel Cells 2007 – International Conference & Trade Show
10. Hydrogen Electrolyzer Award - Popular Mechanics magazine has awarded GE (General Electric) Global Research its 2006 Breakthrough Award. The award was given in recognition of GE’s development of an advanced hydrogen electrolyzer. The Electrolyzer has the potential to lower the cost of producing hydrogen energy through the water electrolysis process. GE’s electrolyzer was recognized for its potential to make hydrogen production by water electrolysis economically feasible. The novel design makes extensive use of GE-developed materials such as the plastic, Noryl™ and also efficient GE processes - for instance, metal coating techniques from GE’s aircraft engine products are used to make high performance electrodes with very low processing costs. Read more from this Alternative Energy News Info web page
11. Hydrogen Storage: Researchers On The Brink Of Technology Breakthrough - Chemists at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, in collaboration with HSM Systems, Inc., are developing a technology that will revolutionize the way hydrogen is stored. The goal is to produce a safe, compact storage system for hydrogen that is both lightweight and affordable.  While the storage system is being developed for markets such as the chemical industry and universities, it could have implications for hydrogen-powered transportation in future. In the simplest terms, they're storing hydrogen in a lightweight metal powder. One trick is to make light metal hydrides that hold more hydrogen atoms. Read more from this University of New Brunswick report, Mar 2005
    

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