Hydrogen

Seawater makes up about 96% of all water on earth, making it a tempting resource to meet the world's growing need for clean drinking water and carbon-free energy. And scientists already have the technical ability to both desalinate seawater and split it to produce hydrogen, which is in demand as…

Representative image SynopsisCBG is derived from agri-waste and other forms of organic waste — a hi-tech version of gobar gas. Unlike the latter, though, a CBG plant produces sulphur stripped of methane of automotive-grade, producing high-quality solid and liquid organic fertilisers as byproducts. Petroleum and natural gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan…

On Tuesday, an otherwise fairly boring confirmation hearing heralded a remarkable victory for climate policy. In response to several questions about climate, 74-year-old former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, now poised to become Joe Biden’s treasury secretary, called climate change an “existential threat” and said she would appoint someone at…

University of New South Wales Ammonia has sustained humanity since the early 20th century, but its production leaves a huge carbon footprint. Now researchers have found a way to make it 100 per cent renewable. Chemical engineers at UNSW Sydney have found a way to make ‘green’ ammonia from air,…

An artistic rendering of the quarks and gluons that make up a proton.Illustration by D. Dominguez / CERN In a recent experiment done at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, in Germany, physicist Alexey Grinin and his colleagues came a step closer to resolving one of the more significant…

New research from China is promising to double the efficiency of hydrogen storage at a time when low-carbon collection of the omnipresent gas is seen as a potential path to a greener energy economy. Published in Nature Nanotechnology this week, the research investigated a method using a titanium carbide alloy…

Automaker Hyundai will build a hydrogen fuel cell systems plant in Guangzhou in the Chinese province of Guangdong this year. It will be Hyundai's first hydrogen fuel cell plant overseas. The carmaker hopes to gain a springboard into in the Chinese hydrogen car market with the move. The Ministry of…

NASA’s powerful Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope combined to captured stunning images of the Orion Nebula. The nebula, which is a massive mixture of various gases and heated matter surrounding young stars, was shot in various wavelengths.  The image looks like a painting, but it’s actually a thing…

Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our “Energy” issue in June, 2020. Dear Bella, I’m going to imitate Rudyard Kipling and tell you a just-so story. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the world 100…

Nemesis Yachts' Nemesis One. Nemesis Yachts Nemesis Yachts created the Nemesis One, a 223-foot concept zero emissions hydrofoil catamaran yacht powered by an autonomous wing sail and hydrofoils.There are different interior module configurations that can be removed when the yacht is in "Ultra-Light Race Mode" to help the ship travel…