Alkaline Fuel Cells - How It Works

Alkaline Fuel Cells
Alkaline fuel cell, often known as the Bacon fuel cell following the British inventor’ name. It has become the most created fuel cell systems and is the cell which traveled Man to the Moon. NASA has utilized alkaline fuel cells since beginning of-1960s, in Apollo-series tasks and on the Space Shuttle. The alkaline fuel cell has a long history in the space program. It is still used in the space shuttle in an expensive guise, producing power for the onboard systems by combining the pure hydrogen and oxygen stored in the rocket-fuelling system. (more…)

Hybrid Electric Cars: Cutting Emissions and Improving Fuel Efficiency

hybrid electric cars
It is a rare company prospectus that begins with a quotation from Goethe: “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” But Lovins is not a normal entrepreneur, as anyone who has met this eccentric and disheveled but unmistakably visionary thinker knows. The founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a leading green think tank based in Old Snowmass, Colorado, thinks the car industry’s incremental approach to cutting emissions and improving fuel efficiency will never amount to much. He wants a complete redesign of the automobile, from the bottom up, and intends to show the big boys how it should be done. (more…)

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Flight Takes Off

hydrogen fuel cell
On a bright, blue morning at Hamburg Airport, the aeronautics industry came a giant step closer to changing the future path of alternative energy aircraft. That’s the morning that the Antares DLR H-2 motor glider became the first aircraft in history to take off solely under hydrogen cell power. (more…)