by DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – December 17, 2007 via ScienceDaily.Com

Advances in fuel desulfurization and reforming lead to a successful demonstration of a portable fuel cell system using JP-8 military jet fuel.

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by Josh Hill with Casey Kazan – December 13, 2007 via DailyGalaxy.Com

If you watch just about any SciFi movie or TV series, or read any book where the Nazis won in World War 11 as historical fact, then you will most likely have seen an airship! They seem to be the stuff alternate time lines are made of, with movies like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and books like Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials both preferring airships, zeppelins or dirigible to a good old-fashioned airplane.

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by Michael Kanellos – December 7, 2007 via News.Com

Although hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, it’s a royal pain to make.

Most industrial hydrogen producers currently make the gas by heating methane and water to 815 degrees Celsius and causing a reaction. Unfortunately, this process generates 9.3 kilograms of carbon dioxide for every kilo of hydrogen, so it’s not environmentally friendly or cheap.

Other companies like Signa Chemistry have come out with chemical catalysts that can strip hydrogen from water.

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by admin – December 6th, 2007 via GreenTechGazette.Com

That’s correct, a group of Welshmen have created a hydrogen fuel cell minibus that will go on sale for only $190,000. Researchers at the University of Glamorgan in Wales developed the fuel cell minibus known as the Hydrogen Bus and put it on display at the Tenth Grove Fuel Cell Symposium in October 2007.

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by Blackwell Publishing Ltd – June 29, 2007 via ScienceDaily.Com

A new paper published in Journal of the American Ceramic Society proposes a new method of producing hydrogen for portable fuel cells. This new method negates the need for the complicated and expensive equipment currently used. With their ability to work steadily for 10-20 times the length of equivalently sized Lithium-ion batteries, portable fuel cells are ideal energy suppliers for devices such as computers, cell phones and hybrid vehicles.

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by American Chemical Society – September 14, 2006 via ScienceDaily.Com

If you’re frustrated by frequently losing battery power in your laptop computer, digital camera or portable music player, then take heart: A better source of “juice” is in the works. Chemists at Arizona State University in Tempe have created a tiny hydrogen-gas generator that they say can be developed into a compact fuel cell package that can power these and other electronic devices — from three to five times longer than conventional batteries of the same size and weight.

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