Archives: Hydrogen Fuel Production

Researchers at Stanford University have discovered a way to produce hydrogen using an AAA battery to split water. The device uses electrodes composed of nickel and iron, which are both abundant and cheap. According to Stanford, “Now scientists at Stanford University have developed a low-cost, emissions-free device that uses an ordinary AAA battery to produce • Read More »

The largest oil and gas company in Austria, OMV has stated recently that they intend to pursue hydrogen as their future fuel of choice. According to Shanghaidaily, “OMV stated in a press release that hydrogen is the company’s ‘first choice in the fuel technology of the future,’ and that given the requisite infrastructure for its • Read More »

Last week I talked about Mirai, Toyota’s new production fuel cell car. So today I want to talk about Mira, one of the world’s fastest supercomputers that is helping to create hydrogen fuel. Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is using Mira, a 10-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer to study artificial photosynthesis. The idea is to • Read More »

I’ve talked about ammonia possibly being a feedstock for fuel cell vehicles and H2 ICE vehicles a few times in the past. New breakthrough technology bodes well for ammonia in the future. According to The Engineer, “British scientists have proposed a way of making it easier and cheaper to run hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles by filling • Read More »

Researchers at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) are studying a switch in biohydrogen molecules. The research could lead to producing large quantities of hydrogen cheaply through biological means such as algae. According to Xinhua, “The findings are significant not only for basic research but also for the technical application of biological hydrogen conversion, • Read More »

Researchers at Stanford University and the Aarhus University in Denmark recently uncovered a 30-year-old recipe for using molybdenum sulfide (moly sulfide) in order to split water and collect the hydrogen gas. Molybdenum sulfide is a replacement for expensive the platinum catalyst used in most electrolyzers. According to GizMag, “Enter moly sulfide. Since World War II, • Read More »

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) scientists and researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) have been working on using both natural plant life and artificial leaves (respectively) in order to create hydrogen gas. NREL scientists are tweaking two iron-sulfur-containing ferredoxins of a certain strain of algae while the ASU researchers are working with artificial photosynthesis. According • Read More »

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are using green algae mutant strains (not to be confused with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) to produce hydrogen. The particular strain of algae is called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii which contains properties of both plants and animals. According to NREL, “The finding suggests ways to increase • Read More »