We talk often about fuel cell technology and many times the immediate implication is the prospective use in fueling our cars, trucks, and SUV’s. A scientist at MIT has been looking at some of the benefits of solar energy not only as a petroleum alternative, but also as a means of decreasing dependency […]

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ITM Power, one of Europe’s leading electrolyser and fuel cell development companies, recently received some nice free publicity on ITV News, a mainstream news programme in the UK.
Electrolysers are devices that produce hydrogen from electricity and water. Hydrogen, alongside solar power, is one of the cleanest sources of power and alternatives to fossil fuels. […]

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We all need inspiration to green up our lives. So I’ll point you to this article about Michael Strizki whose house is deemed to be the first solar-hydrogen unit in the United States. This feat of eco-consciousness is enabled by an assortment of technologies such as solar panels, a hydrogen fuel cell, storage tanks and […]

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Question for the Chemistry nerd in all of us- What’s CH3-OH?
Give Up? That’s methanol which so happens to take on the form of liquid at room temperature. The creation process pretty closely mimics current efforts of hydrogen-fuel production with the addition of carbon monoxide. This simple addition results in one giant benefit […]

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Pop quiz: Which company can lay claim to the title as the world’s largest producer of Geothermal Energy? Times up- If you guessed oil giant Chevron, you’re right.
Chevron is in fact the world’s largest producer of geothermal energy, a renewable resource that generates near inexhaustible power while producing virtually no greenhouse gas emissions.
In Indonesia, […]

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