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A breakthrough in thin film solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) is currenty being refined in labs at the University of Houston, which they say could lead to distributed power generation from natural gas.
Toshiba announced on Friday that it has built what it claims is the smallest-ever direct methanol fuel cell.
Coal’s stability in high temperatures could make it an ideal fuel for the next generation of military aircraft.
You may not soon be able to refuel your car with corn syrup or charge a computer by plugging it into a bottle of Coca-Cola. But to Stanley Kravitz and a group of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, sugar looks like the new oil.
Farmers of the world must shift quickly to growing plants for industrial uses such as oils and plastics to replace petrochemicals as the climate warms and crude supplies run out, British scientists said on Monday.
Since 9/11 more than US$10 billion has been spent on biological weapons, and the physical plant at the Fort has been expanded to the tune of $400 million.
THE European Union would be prepared to match a Japanese offer to pay a greater share of the construction costs of the world’s first prototype nuclear fusion reactor in order to host the project, an EU source said late on Tuesday.
A company has begun studying the feasibility of a plant that would convert coal into diesel fuel.
It would be the first plant of its kind in the United States.
Why I quit the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
An independent oil company says that more than ten billion barrels of North Sea oil could remain untapped.
Europe is still confident that it will be chosen to host Iter, the world’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor.
Colorado is full of sand, but it’s useless for luring natural gas out of the earth through an increasingly important drilling method called hydraulic fracturing.
