A Boost For Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research

by nukegingrich | January 27, 2007 at 09:16 am

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Science Daily — The development of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles, the ultimate green dream in transportation energy, is another step closer. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) have identified a new variation of a familiar platinum-nickel alloy that is far and away the most active oxygen-reducing catalyst ever reported.

h/t swampwoman,

Also, this story from earlier this week:

A secretive Texas startup developing what some are calling a "game
changing" energy-storage technology broke its silence this week. It
announced that it has reached two production milestones and is on track
to ship systems this year for use in electric vehicles.

EEStor's
ambitious goal, according to patent documents, is to "replace the
electrochemical battery" in almost every application, from
hybrid-electric and pure-electric vehicles to laptop computers to
utility-scale electricity storage.

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