Hydrogen

For most of their existence, stars are fuelled by the fusion of hydrogen into helium. Fusion proceeds via two processes that are well understood theoretically: the proton-proton (p-p) chain and the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) cycle. Neutrinos that are emitted along such processes in the solar core are the only direct probe…

FILE PHOTO: Italian gas group Snam logo is seen outside their office in Rome, Italy, June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Guglielmo MangiapaneMILAN (Reuters) - Italian gas group Snam aims to be carbon neutral by 2040 and will increase spending to get its network ready for hydrogen and the transition to cleaner energy…

A zero-carbon supplement to wind and solar Credit: Vanessa Branchi When hydrogen burns, the only by-product is water—which is why hydrogen has been an alluring zero-carbon energy source for decades. Yet the traditional process for producing hydrogen, in which fossil fuels are exposed to steam, is not even remotely zero-carbon.…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded just under $14 million for an attempt to build a hydrogen-energy production facility at a nuclear power plant in Minnesota with the help of a nuclear research lab in Idaho.Idaho National Laboratory and Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy will work on…

Sebastian Gollnow | picture alliance | Getty Images Some 130 miles south of Salt Lake City, engineers are working on what will become a giant cavity in the ground. It's a geological formation known as a salt dome, a column of salt surrounded by sedimentary layers, and when it's filled…

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft captured an estimated 2 pounds of material from the asteroid Bennu, where it recently landed. The spacecraft collected so much alien dust and rock, in fact, that it couldn't close its sample-collection tool. So mission controllers raced to stow the sample to stop asteroid dust from leaking…

Not long ago, Joe Davis, the “artist-scientist” in George Church’s genetics lab at Harvard Medical School, was in Brittany, France. The region is known for thousand-year-old salterns that produce fleur de sel, or flower of salt—salt that forms as seawater evaporates. Davis was there sampling these brightly colored ponds with…

News Clint Chan Tack Sunday 25 October 2020Phillip Julien. - TT's involvement in the hydrogen strategy, which is being advanced by the European Commission (EC), could lead to a revitalisation of petrochemical industries at the Point Lisas Industrial Estate. This was the view expressed by NewGen managing director Phillip Julien…

Airbus' AlbatrossONE. Airbus Airbus created the AlbatrossONE, a small-scale remote-controlled aircraft with wingtips that can flap like a bird during turbulence to better handle the strong gusts of winds. These hinged, flapping wingtips help reduce drag, therefore saving fuel and consequently decreasing carbon dioxide emissions. Airbus has completed two flight…

No one has yet found the first stars. They're hypothesized to have formed about 100 million years after the Big Bang out of universal darkness from the primordial gases of hydrogen, helium, and trace light metals. These gases cooled, collapsed, and ignited into stars up to 1,000 times more massive…