Hydrogen

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…

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Because of the many environmental problems caused by the use of fossil fuels, many scientists worldwide are focused on finding efficient alternatives. Though high hopes have been placed on hydrogen fuel cells, the reality is that transporting, storing, and using pure hydrogen comes with a huge added cost, making this…

Most people realize our Sun is producing light and heat from the fusion of hydrogen into helium. However, the process of merging together hydrogen nuclei into helium is not as straightforward as it might seem. Typically, there are two processes by which smaller stars create fusion. The first of these,…

By Vanessa Dezem, Kati Pohjanpalo and Jesper Starn(Bloomberg) —Fortum Oyj is looking to divest its consumer business and pushing into renewables and hydrogen as the Finnish utility aligns its strategy with its newly acquired German power company Uniper SE.The joint plan comes eight months after Fortum secured majority ownership of…

In 2004, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, an orbiting space telescope scanning distant groups of galaxies, found a bizarre object. Among other oddities, this body appeared to be blue, despite giving off no visible light. Careful observations showed the presence of a pair of rings within the body, earning it the…