Its systems bundle together fuel cells and an electrolyzer, another veteran technology, to generate their own fuel, hydrogen.
It also has its hand in oil sands, solar, fuel cells and a variety of other alternative energy initiatives worldwide.
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The heat is supplied by sources that range from waste-to-energy facilities and biomass boilers to micro-CHP fuel cells and solar-thermal arrays.
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The newspapers were full of articles on solar power, fusion and converting the economy to run on fuel cells and hydrogen.
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As gas prices go up, the efficiency of fuel cells and microturbines will also have to rise for them to remain competitive.
Dramatic advances in technologies such as fuel cells and microturbines, which generate power efficiently and cleanly on a smaller scale, may make up the shortfall.
This is because most of the area under their floors was taken up by their fuel cells and the massive cooling ducts meant to keep them from overheating.
These incentives help drive down costs for developers who install fuel cells and ensure that developers can provide attractive, stable power rates to their fuel cell host customers.
In 2010, several countries invested in fuel cells and hydrogen.
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While international sales will remain strong for a while, Venkataraman says, they too will begin to suffer after 2011 as alternative technologies like fuel cells and nuclear hit the market.
On the contrary, present policies, including taxes and safety regulations, are creating incentives in the market for energy that discriminate against fuel cells and in favour of traditional fossil fuels.
Contrary to what many people may expect, most of these technologies, which include microturbines, fuel cells and high-efficiency cogeneration, rely on fossil fuels rather than renewable-energy resources like wind or solar energy.
In January GM (nyse: GM - news - people ) contracted to sell the Army a fleet of trucks powered by next-generation power plants like fuel cells and diesel-electric hybrids.
This country has an estimated 220 gigawatts of what you might call amateur power: emergency generators, industrial fuel cells and other user-owned power plants, compared with 1, 000 or so gigawatts of central station capacity.
But I've also seen unions re-training workers to build energy- efficient buildings, innovators designing cars that run on fuel cells and biofuels and electricity, cars that get more miles per gallon than ever before, cars that will cut the cost of driving, reduce our reliance on foreign oil, and fight global warming.
Eligible improvements (PDF) include not only energy-saving equipment such as insulation, lighting, and HVAC systems but onsite renewable energy (rooftop PV, wind turbines, and fuel cells) and water-saving upgrades such as low-flow plumbing fixtures and grey water systems.
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They started with the vague idea of doing something in alternative energy and spent months researching fuel cells, only to discover what countless others have found: Fuel cells are temperamental and run on expensive fuels like hydrogen and natural gas.
So you see the fuel cells here and they're all trying to do that.
DG, but we have seen the most movement on fuel cells, and solar leases are increasing in popularity as well.
Every 12 months or so GM develops a new generation of fuel cells, and recent improvements in power density and part streamlining are impressive.
When this compound is present in sufficient amounts, the pyruvate kinase enzyme stops generating fuel for cells and instead pushes cells towards growing and dividing.
The new technology developed at OSU can now produce 10 to 50 more times the electricity, per volume, than most other approaches using microbial fuel cells, and 100 times more electricity than some.
The hydrogen for these fuel cells (and for the rest of Iceland's new hydrogen economy, should it come to pass) will be made initially in a fertiliser plant that has been turning the stuff out since the 1950s.
Microturbines, and fuel cells in particular, are newer and have a greater opportunity for disruption.
The company vows to double its revenues from 17 clean-technology businesses, ranging from renewable energy and hydrogen fuel cells, to water filtration and purification systems, to cleaner aircraft and locomotive engines.
Rare earth (RE) metals find application in a massive range of devices including wind turbines, hybrid and electric cars, LCDs, fuel cells, nuclear reactors and lasers.
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And fuel cells could free its designers to let loose with imaginative cars and small trucks.
But solid-oxide fuel cells are hardier and offer far more punch because they can use denser hydrocarbons as fuel.
The researchers found the enzyme, pyruvate kinase, switches between providing fuel for existing cells and forming material for new cells.
Generators powered by fuel cells quietly whir and produce half the heat of diesel as they combine hydrogen with air to create electricity.
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