Big Wind-To-Hydrogen Project Afoot In Minnesota

A Minnesota wind farm (image via Wikimedia Commons)

"Lower value" nighttime wind energy would be used to produce hydrogen under a plan that appears to be coming together in Minnesota. Read more →

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Storing Renewable Energy: Key To An All-Renewables Future

Gemasolar, the first commercial-scale plant in the world to apply central tower receiver and molten salt heat storage technology. (image via Torresol Energy)

The all-renewables future will require energy storage. Here we explore both current possibilities and technologies that might one day be practical. Read more →

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Hydrogen From Plants Touted As Game Changer

One great hope for hydrogen is as a clean transportation fuel (image via Wikimedia Commons

Hydrogen has its second "breakthrough" story in a week, with a new enzyme combination said to be remarkably efficient at extracting the gas from plants. Read more →

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Hydrogen Made Cheap, Calgary Duo Claims

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Better, cheaper catalysts for electrolysis of water into hydrogen could pave the way for an energy storage breakthrough, a new paper asserts. Read more →

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How Natural Gas Pipelines Could Boost Hydrogen

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Blending hydrogen into natural gas pipelines could be a way to increase output from renewable energy production facilities, a U.S.-commissioned report says. Read more →

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MIT Turns Over A New Solar Leaf Plan

MIT artificial leaf

The solar-to-fuel dream lives on, as the "artificial leaf" team outlines a path to efficiencies that could make the technology viable. Read more →

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PowerTrekk Portable Fuel Cell To Hit Shelves In April

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Powertrekk recently announced that the water-powered fuel cell should be available to the public in April 2013. Read more →

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Audi Wants To Put Wind Power In Your Gas Tank

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Audi is in on a project that will use wind power to make hydrogen, then convert the hydrogen into synthetic methane for use in cars on the natural gas grid. Read more →

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Rusty Solar Cell Is A Hydrogen Producer

rust water solar cell

Looking to reduce costs, researchers in Switzerland successfully use a semiconductor based on iron oxide (yep, rust) in their photoelectrochemical water-splitting device. Read more →

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Hydrogen Eyed As Clean Grid Stabilizer In Hawaii

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A Hawaii project will use geothermal power to make hydrogen by electrolysis; the hope is to use the hydrogen stabilize the grid, making room for more renewables. Read more →

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